triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Vidya Shankar and Teji Sethi GUEST EDITOR: Baisali Chatterjee Dutt 29 Aug 2024
distant birdsong…
an old friend’s letter
falls from my diary
— Neena Singh
Poetry Pea, S6 E35
One of the things I love about haiku is that it often leaves itself open to interpretation. In certain cases, I think the word ‘interpretation’ can even be exchanged with ‘imagination.’
As someone whose imagination is always running on a tankful of coffee, certain ku read like a scene from a movie making me wonder what happened before, what happened after, what exactly triggered this ku… Where was the poet when this happened? What happened or what did they experience to make them write this ku? Who made them feel this way and why?
I find layers, I read between the lines, I imagine the situation and sometimes, I end up with a movie in my head. A bigger picture. One that goes beyond the three lines before us.
All the ku I’ve chosen for this month’s Spotlight series have set off endless wonderings and
ponderings in my mind…and I happily indulged them all.
— Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
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Thank you for being our next guest editor, Baisali. We look forward to "the endless wonderings and ponderings" all through this month.
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Dear Baisali, so very grateful and honored that you found my "distant birdsong" haiku worthy of Triveni Spotlight.