triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Iqra Raza 25 March 2024
the glances we share on the packed train . . .
swallow flight
Tanya McDonald
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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This is my first here...indeed a powerful theme...feeding silence into our core is so difficult in this chaotic world n when innerself is juggling with myriad things to have an assortment of moments becomes important to keep ourselves sane...Great poem n a great choice to convey the message
What a great poem. It happens to all of us, but few are able to SHOW this way. Fascinated.
Lovely one and the fear that chills through...
A beautiful haiku from Tanya, thank you for sharing.
Lovely contrast between travelling somewhere, sandwiched too tightly between strangers, and the freedom of a swallow.