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triveni spotlight: 7th May 2025

triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar

7th May 2025


triveni spotlight May 2025


                                         

blue note each adjective I use for you

 


— Surashree Joshi

petrichor: pebbles Vol. 3





 

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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.


_()_ triveni spotlight team

4 Comments


Terrific!!!


Why are they called blue notes?

These dissonant notes, neither major nor minor, create tension and imbalance, giving a singular emotion and interest to the music.


The term blue is the abbreviation of the idiom “blue devils”, meaning dark thoughts. Blues and jazz musicians and singers play it to express their nostalgia or sadness.

The blue note, the essence of blues music - Orchestre Parfum

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Surashree Joshi
Surashree Joshi
4 days ago
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Thank you so much for your comment, Alan!

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A beautiful poem, Shloka and Surashree. I like the mention of 'blue' here. It colours the whole poem.

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Surashree Joshi
Surashree Joshi
4 days ago
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Thank you so much, Kala!


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