triveni spotlight: 1st January 2025

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Anju Kishore

1st January 2025

triveni spotlight January 2025

“... Des pas sur la neige”

Claude Debussy

Pianissimo. Let your fingers caress the keys, and sink into their sounds like a

sigh. In the solitude of D-minor, only sadness can be wordless. Now and then a

deer, an owl. Breathe between the phrases, inhabit the silences. Tarry as long as

you dare before the next sound. Now and then a hint of sunlight. Or moonlight,

depending on the day. Close your eyes and imagine the shape of solitude, coax its plea slowly from the keys so it whispers softer than a heartbeat.

Now and then these echoes fade as silently as clouds sweep the horizon. My

fingers melt and mesh inexorably into the keys, making each sound just a decibel more resonant than the snowfalls of my youth. In these last overtones, I embody every song in need of a voice.

quiet sun rays ...

enough to imagine

icicles melt

 Alfred Booth

haikuKATHA Issue 27

Author’s note:

“…Des pas sur la neige” (footsteps in the snow) is from the first book of Préludes.

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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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