transient

by Ai Li

transient is our 89th edition in the cherita series of storytelling books.

The Cherita genre was created by ai li on the 22 June 1997. It consists of three stanzas of 1 - 2 - 3 lines and it tells a story.

This edition showcases 90 fine cherita and cherita terbalik from writers and poets who hail from UK, USA, Singapore, India, Germany, Canada, China and Italy.

cherita terbalik continues to capture the imagination of poets and there are again fine examples in this edition.

Featured Poets as they appear in this edition :-

ai li/ Larry Kimmel/ Teri Messmer/ Partha Sarkar/ John Paul Caponigro/ Joanna Ashwell/ Jackie Chou/ Megha Anne Wilson/ Isabella Kramer/ Kathabela Wilson/ Leon Tefft/ Sigrid Saradunn/ Teri Messmer/ Ash Greenwood/ Nicholas Gentile/ Partha Sarkar/ David Cox/ Barry J. Vitcov/ Connie Pittman-Ramsey/ Sean Wilson/ Eva Joan/ Yiwei Huang/ Maria Tosti/

The book has been edited to be experienced two ways. It can be read as a storybook and as an anthology of individual poems.

The entire book also has one poem to a page to allow the author's words to breathe.

Three sample Cherita from this edition :-


the dark continent
holds my daughter
while she sleeps

a bare army cot

my heart
is her pillow


Teri Messmer


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rain angels

all over
touching every cloud

when the storm
becomes a runway
for wings


Joanna Ashwell



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midsummer night

while fireflies
dance around

goblins
whisper
lewdness


Isabella Kramer


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The cherita lighthouse has been awarded to the following writers and poets in this edition for their timeless cherita :-

Larry Kimmel/ Teri Messmer/ Joanna Ashwell/ Jackie Chou/ Partha Sarkar/ Isabella Kramer/ Nicholas Gentile/ David Cox/ Barry J. Vitcov/

ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita. She is an internationally published Haiku, Tanka, Cherita, Gembun and Dua poet and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line.

N.B. Please be aware that all Kindle versions now match the paperback versions and do not contain any colour images.

193 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 19, 2024

About the author

ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita, which is a monthly journal http://www.thecherita.com/submissions..., now available as a print book and e-book [all back editions will be migrated to print and e-book versions for our readers], the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line. There are now 6 books on Cherita, 2 books on Cherita and Haiku, one book on Cherita and Tanka and one book on Cherita, Tanka and Haku by ai li She is also the author of 20 books on Haiku and Tanka. All ai li’s books are available on Amazon in paperback and on kindle.

She is also a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain [FRPS], and an evidential spiritualist medium who trained at The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain [Est. 1872] and The College of Psychic Studies, London [Est. 1883].

ai li's poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, Canada, Japan and India.

You will also find ai li's poems in the following books :-

● One Cherita in Hedgerow #126, Wildflower Press, UK, Winter 2019.

● One Cherita in Hedgerow #125, Wildflower Press, UK, Autumn 2019.

● One Tanka in Moonbathing Issue 19, Published in USA.

● One Tanka in bottle rockets #39, published in August 2019, in the USA.

● One Haiku in bottle rockets #40, published in February 2019, in the USA.

● 3 Haiku in Spring 2019 in Akitsu Quarterly, published in USA.

● 40 Cherita translated into Hindi and Punjabi by Arvinder Kaur in under raintrees, in India 2019.

● 3 Haiku in Spring 2018, Summer 2018, one Haiku in Fall 2018 in Akitsu Quarterly, published in USA.

● 4 Tanka Sequence in Stacking Stones : An Anthology of Short Tanka Sequences Paperback, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA Summer 2018

● Several Cherita, Tanka and Haiku in frameless sky issues 5,6,7 and 8, 2017 -2018, Publisher frameless sky, usa

● 31 Tanka and 9 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 31, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, 10th Aniversary Issue January 2018.

● Multiple Cherita in the 13 editions of the cherita, Publisher 1-2-3 press, london, england, June 2017 through February 2018.

● 33 Tanka and 7 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 30, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Fall 2017.

● One Cherita in Hedgerow Print Issue, Wildflower Press, UK, Autumn 2017.

● Two Tanka in Skylark : A Tanka Journal, UK, Volume 9, Summer2017.

● 40 Tanka in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 29, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Fall 2017.

● One Haiku and One Cherita in Scryptic 1:2, Published in the USA [Forthcoming]

● 3 Haiku in Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017, Published in USA.

● One Tanka in Moonbathing Issue 16, Published in USA.

● 51 Cherita and a Cherita article in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 27, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, Spring 2017.

● One Cherita in Hedgerow Print Issue, Wildflower Press, UK, Spring 2017.

● 37 Tanka and 3 Cherita in Atlas Poetica, A Journal of World Tanka, Issue 26,Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, October 2016.

● 17 Tanka in Neon Graffiti, Publisher: Keibooks, Perryville, Maryland, USA, November 2016.

● 1 six word Haiku has been included in 'Haiku in English - The First Hundred Years' [Hardback] which features work by Jack Kerouac, Ezra Pound, Allen Ginsberg, E E Cummings and many others, Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York, September 2013.

● One Haiku and One Tanka in 'Now This : Contemporary Poems of Beginnings, Renewal and Firsts', Robert Epstein, Editor; Publisher-Wasteland Press, Shelbyville, Kentuck, USA, July 2013.

● One Tanka in Take Five : Best Contemporary Tanka by M Kei, Editor-in-Chief, Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2010.

● 28 Tanka in Streetlights, Urban Poetry of Place, Publisher: Modern English Tanka Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2009.

● 11 Tanka in Landfall, Poe