triveni spotlight: 25th May 2025
- Anju Kishore
- May 25
- 1 min read
triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar
25th May 2025
triveni spotlight May 2025
a line underlines a line winter rain
— Adrian Bouter
Sonic Boom, Issue #15
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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.
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Before the hours slip into another month, i really wanted to thank Shloka for presenting these metapoems which are really really beyond my comfort zone of understanding and I bet, it took me hours to connect. Shloka has a unique way of writing and it really needs a honest reading and understanding! Thank you Shloka!
Well, thank you so much Alan for explaining and exploring the reasons behind the poem and a big thank you to Billie too. I did rewind the dates to read the summary and it did enter my head!!
Thank you hosts!
Thank you Triveni Haikai India!!
This minimalist metapoem enacts its meaning with elegant recursion. The phrase “a line underlines a line” mirrors poetic construction, while “winter rain” suggests emotional tonality—weight, repetition, erasure. Subtle, self-referential, and seasonally evocative. I enjoyed this provocative read. Thanks for posting this gem, Shloak. It's been a delightful month of meta/monoku.
---Billie