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triveni spotlight: 25 october

Updated: Oct 25, 2022

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh host editor: Teji Sethi

Theme: Raga in Nature

Journal: haikuKATHA




if it isn't love

that bends the tree

to touch dancing grass ...

what makes

the wind sing?


— Shalini Pattabiraman


From the tanka prose ‘The Unknown Artist



There is no end to seeing and hearing. The structure of the universe is infinite. Endless vibrating expansion.

~ Nanak


There are myriad sounds which pre-exist in nature and can be perceived by human ear. It is completely natural, both animals and humans to have profound reactions to certain sounds. Some songbirds sing from repertoires which use the same rhythms and note combinations as modern composers. For example, the canyon wren uses a 12-tone scale. The hermit thrush, on the other hand, sings in a five tone penta-scale which is common in Asian music. The tanka I have chosen to showcase, exquisitely capture the ‘music in nature’ be it the sound of ripples, a bird song, a cicada’s mating call, the rustle of leaves or the lament of paddy fields!


Teji Sethi

11 comentários


Milan Rajkumar
Milan Rajkumar
27 de out. de 2022

Beautiful! ❤️👍

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Gauri
Gauri
26 de out. de 2022

Beautiful

Curtir

sanjuktaa
26 de out. de 2022

Really lovely!

Curtir

Alka Balain
26 de out. de 2022

So beautiful 😍 I got lost in it

Curtir

Xenia Tran
Xenia Tran
25 de out. de 2022

Such a beautiful tanka, thank you so much for sharing!

Curtir
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