triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY! hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh guest editor: Geethanjali Rajan
theme: listening
bhumichampa the earth gives away
its purple secrets
Sanjuktaa Asopa, India
(Cattails, October 2020)
Note by the editor: The theme for June 2022 is ‘listening’. I hope you enjoy the music, sounds, and silences of nature in these showcased poems of close observation.
I'm guessing you already know the shell's echo is Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, i.e., echo of the Big Bang. Such a Universe we live in!
---Billie, Kiku Makura
mosquito buzzing
able to entertain
me ...
I enjoyed this poem, especially the theme's implication that there is something to be heard from a flower, though admittedly, one must listen very carefully to hear the message. Maybe in that focused stillness you become aware of a tiny insect song, or the nearly inaudible micro-hum of the plant's root zone, or the soft breeze-music stirring the leaves---maybe, even your own pulse as it quickens in presence of beauty . . . let your imagination go, discover the Earth's purple secrets as you tune into your innate haiku mind.
Congratulations dear Sanjuktaa!!
implied message let's take care of the earth .haiku extraordinary meaning
A true example of less is more. So many elements, so few words. Wow!