triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Anju Kishore
19th January 2025
triveni spotlight January 2025
The Way Home
When Rosemary asks why I always bake the same cake for her gatherings, I tell
her the eggs are from my mother’s silver-laced Wyandottes, who happily hunt
bugs and seeds on her farm. The flour comes from my grandmother’s almond
trees, and the sweetener, harvested from her beehives, has hints of wild white
indigo and wrinkleleaf goldenrod. My great-grandmother contributes by sending bottles of rum and dark Madagascan chocolate.
from one hedge
to another …
rambling roses
Dru Philippou
haikuKATHA Issue 29
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Warmest New Year wishes to all of you from Triveni Spotlight!
Though any day of the year is good to begin something new, the first day of the new year comes with a tinkle of celebration. No better day than this to do something new here on Spotlight.
Presenting a collection of uplifting haibun this month, each that speaks of hope, peace, joy or acceptance, all from the archives of haikuKATHA.
May 2025 be filled with all of the above for you, dear poets.
Anju Kishore
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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Anju. We look forward to an uplifting start to the new year.
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I fall in love with this haibun every time I read it. It beautifully shows simplicity, sustainability and self sufficiency. During meal times at grandpa’s house, he would.point at each item on our plates and tell us how it all came from the home garden. We would play it like a game. If tomorrow all the shops would close, would we survive? It was fun!
When I read the ku, I was enchanted. On reading the haibun, I am floored 😍
Such a beautiful piece!
Nice to see Dru's haibun here.
Good choice, Anju.