triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Iqra Raza 23 March 2024
new home
we unpack
old habits
Debbie Antebi
As the world gets increasingly loud, not just aurally but visually as well (especially with the proliferation of technology and capitalisation of attention), I focus my selections around ‘intimacies’. Moments of quietude that involve a reckoning with intimacy in its various forms and along varied axes: with the self, with others, with material objects, with places, with thoughts and values, with the environment around us. To be intimate is to acknowledge the depth of silence, to allow it to settle into the self, and sometimes even to be overwhelmed by it. The ku I have chosen for this month explore what it means to be intimate in different ways.
— Iqra Raza
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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Iqra. The theme is powerful and we look forward to re-discovering moments close to our hearts.
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my soul pours
into a homemade card...
poem for a friend
late March -
yes the poui trees are
smothered in colour
Beautiful!
Even I have an unpublished poem on 'unpack' which i had written when Triveni had conducted an online gingko walk where we had to read our verses after we had gone out for a gingko walk just after Covid.
winter sun
in my gingko walk
i unpack myself
Wonderful poem. 8 syllables packs a huge punch.