On a Quiet Street

on a quiet street is the thirteenth edition of the cherita : a storybook journal. 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 volume showcases 77 fine cherita from poets who hail from UK, USA, Singapore, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Croatia, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, Poland, Lithuania and West Africa. Six cherita terbalik or inverted cherita of the 3-2-1 format, are featured within this edition for your enjoyment and inspiration. Featured Poets as they appear in this edition :- Carol Raisfeld/ Marietta Jane McGregor/ Mark Gordon/ Peter Jastermsky/ Christine L. Villa/ Kath Abela Wilson/ Alexis Rotella/ Patricia Kennelly/ Alan Summers/ Maryalicia Post/ Mary Hanrahan/ Michael H Lester/ Madhuri Pillai/ Grace Galton/ Caroline Skanne/ Tamara K. Walker/ Patricia Prime/ Tiffany Shaw-Diaz/ Larry Kimmel/ Hansha Teki/ ai li/ Goran Gatalica/ Debbie Strange/ Tia Haynes/ Arturas Silanskas/ pamela a. babusci/ Johnny Baranski/ Gillena Cox/ Malintha Perera/ Samar Ghose/ Marilyn Humbert/ Joanna Ashwell/ Pat Geyer/ Celestine Nudanu/ Samantha Sirimanne Hyde/ Gerry Jacobson/ Barbara Curnow/ Allyson Chen/ Carol Purington/ Robert Horrobin/ Geoffrey Winch/ Paweł Markiewicz/ Tim Gardiner/ Christina Sng/ The cherita terbalik [pronounced chair-rita tur-bar-lake] can be written with stanzas of [3-2-1], [2-1-3], [1-3-2],] 2-3-1] and [3-1-2] and with up to 3 partners. I hope you will all try this either solo or with your writing friends and submit your best efforts to me. This edition features the 3-2-1 format. The 2-1-3 format will be featured in a forthcoming edition of the cherita. 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. Here is an example from the book :- I knew it was the way you said her name the way flowers discover sun in spring Tiffany Shaw-Diaz The cherita invokes the storyteller that lives in all of us. ai li is the editor and publisher of the cherita : your storybook journal. She is an internationally published Haiku, Tanka and Cherita poet and the founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line. N.B. Kindle versions contain a wonderland of colour images within, but please be aware that Print versions of the cherita do not have any images within.