triveni spotlight: 1st May 2025

Anju Kishore
May 1
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triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar

1st May 2025

triveni spotlight May 2025

any moment now i art

— Raghav Prashant Sundar

whiptail: journal of the single-line poem, Issue #4

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Theme: Metapoems & Language

I have always been fascinated by the creative process—the sacred act of writing itself, the repealing of the blank page. To celebrate the ars poetica and the building blocks of language, my curation for the month of May centres around metapoems. What happens when whole lexicons, adjectives, verbs, apostrophes, and schwas lace haiku with nuance and layers? How can grammatical terms form the backbone of a poem? I hope you enjoy unfolding these questions—and more—as you ponder these sixteen poems.

Shloka Shankar

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Many thanks to our guest editor Shloka Shankar for this month’s selection and theme. Poets, we look forward to your company on this fascinating tour of what language can do to the poetry of haiku.

_()_ triveni spotlight team

7 Comments

Shloka Shankar

May 03

This monoku is talking about the creative process, how it is almost always around the corner. The muse finds you while creating. If we sit around waiting, it never amounts to much. And it is also alluding to Descartes's "I think therefore I am."

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Surashree Joshi

4 days ago

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Exactly! Brilliant ku by Raghav. I am a firm believer of universe working and creating through you, the catalyst. So, you may unexpectedly get the inspiration to write, draw, or sing something. Sometimes, you write a poem and it is not even completely clear to you how or why you wrote that. And that is just the universe and your subconscious in cahoots. But on the other hand, you need to keep moving and trying and working. And I look at it this way...the lines get blurred between you and your art. Just my long rambling thought!😅

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lakshmi iyer

May 03

Wish anybody could explain this!!

Kala Ramesh

May 02

I am lost here. ??