Cherita
Cherita (pronounced CHAIR-rita) is a linked poetry form of one-, two-, and three-line stanzas.
Cherita is the Malay word for "story" or "tale". A cherita consists of a one-line stanza, followed by a two-line stanza, and then finishing with a three-line stanza. It can either be written solo or by up to three partners.
The cherita tells a story. It was created by ai li on June 22, 1997 in memory of her grandparents who were raconteurs extraordinaire. It was also inspired by Larry Kimmel's sensitive recognition of a shorter form contained within the opening three-verse stanza of ai li's LUNENGA, which was created May 27, 1997.
The cherita arose out of the English-language haiku and tanka tradition, but is more anecdotal, or nano-narrative, in nature than are the “momentary” haiku and the more lyrical tanka, though it is easily adaptable to lyrical expression. It is imagistic and depends on conciseness and suggestion for its effect.
More generally, cherita is a subset of micropoetry, a phenomenon that has gain popularity with the emergence of microblogging sites in the 21st century.
Example[edit]
4 pm
a cuckoo clock
bringing forest into afternoon
the crumbs i leave
sitting on
their own shadows
References[edit]
- Poetry Forms
- Shot Glass Glossary of Poetic Forms
- Poets Collective
- Good Company: An Exploration of Haiku-Related Linked Forms, Supplement #3 of Acorn haiku journal
- ben johnson
- Live Poets
- New Hampshire Poetry Festival
- The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania May 2016
- A History of Tanka in English Pt I : The North American Foundation, 1899 - 1985 by M. Kei
- Definition and examples
- Poetry Project
- World Heritage Encyclopedia
- Haiku society of America newsletter
- Mindlovemisery's Menagerie featured form Nov 2014
- Mindlovemisery's Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond Jan 2016
- The sunbeam
- Mountain Express, Poetry please
- Western New England Poetry Collection
- Brown bag special
- Across the realm of short verse, Dr. Rita Malhotra
- Waka alive
- The Haiku Club
- Definition
- Simply Haiku
- Poet Graves workshop
- Project Gutenberg
- Sketchbook 4-2 March April 2009
See also[edit]
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