TA DA ANTHOLOGY - the cherita

T A D A A N T H O L O G Y I N F O

and submission guidelines

a lone hare
its dusk

is
also mine

ai li
from another night by ai li

a
new cobweb

my shed
has life again

ai li
from another night by ai li

he was here
you know

he left
roses

ai li
from another night by ai li

pole dancing
in her living room

in the dark
of bourbon

ai li
from another night by ai li

bedside clock
wall clock

time is not
on your side

ai li
from another night by ai li

so alert
after your kiss

a dull day
has become Paris

ai li
from another night by ai li

TA DA [2-2]

An Invitation

You are invited to submit your virgin ta da poems for the very first ta da anthology. All submissions will be selected, collated, edited and published by ai li, its creator, and editor and publisher of the cherita, gembun and dua books, and this anthology of 90 timeless ta da will be published by the 1-2-3 Press which publishes the cherita.

I encourage you to submit your best ta da for this very special first ta da anthology.

If I receive an encouraging response to this invitation, then this anthology will carry on and join the ongoing cherita, gembun and dua anthologies. The decision will be in all your writing hands.

Ta Da is another brief unique storytelling genre and it was created by ai li at 7.30am on the Sunday morning of 15 April 2022, and which can be written with up to two poets.

Ta Da is an original minimal short form genre which has become a quartet, joining cherita, gembun and dua – the three other unique and iconic storytelling genres, all created by ai li.

Submission Guidelines

We invite you to submit your best Ta Da for the first Ta Da Anthology.

Please send me your Ta Da gems on Life, Love, Loss and Renewal.

Please submit up to 30 Ta Da to the editor for each anthology in the body of a single email.

There are no deadlines and submissions ongoing.

Please note that we do not accept AI generated submissions.

They can cover births, deaths, anniversaries, betrayals, disappointments, abortions, bankruptcies, joblessness, vendettas, suicides et al; and also about travel, work, hobbies, light and dark passions, eating disorders, night shifts, cross dressing, the erotic, mindfulness and any other subject matter that I may have missed or forgotten. The list is endless.

Please do not send run-of-the-mill, conveyor belt, journal entries, religious or angry, political poems. There is always a place for these but they are not for these anthologies.

Your words are allowed to breath in all that space
and enables the reader to slow right down to be in the quiet to fully appreciate
the timeless of your stories, and to be in the moment.

The copyright of all submissions to the cherita has to belong to the submitter, and the poem or poems have to be created by the submitter and not generated by AI [artificial intelligence].

Send your Ta Da submissions to ai li at aili@thecherita.com
Please double click and use the standard submission email above. Thanks.
Please do not copy and paste this link elsewhere to use as this will not work.

*All submissions must be in the Arial 11 font size, left justified and not in italics.*

You may send your submissions in at any time and you must be at least 18 years old to submit.

For collaborations, please include the email addresses of all involved poets. Thanks.

All poems must be the author’s original work. We prefer previously unpublished poems. We will consider previously published Ta Da from print or online journals, Facebook, twitter, blogs, social networking sites, personal websites, etc., only if you include appropriate acknowledgments and credits with these submissions.

We will disqualify all previously unpublished submissions which are under consideration elsewhere, or entered into competitions.

B A C K G R O U N D

Ta Da was created and conceived by ai li on Sunday 15 April 2022 at 7.30 am to accompany Cherita, Gembun and Dua on their storytelling journey. These are three other genres by ai li which poets and writers have now deemed iconic, and which are both instantly recognisable by their unique and distinctive formats.

Ta Da now joins them with its very own unique two stanza of 4-lines storytelling format with a pause between each stanza.

Cherita, Gembun, Dua and Ta Da are now a quartet of short form storytelling genres by ai li, along with eighteen other linked forms which were all created by ai li.

This new genre invites you to further distil and share the very essence of a minimal story. Your words should be brief, meaningful, and hold captive your reader.

More examples of virgin Ta Da can be found in the first book of Ta Da by ai li – another night which has 90 virgin Ta Da poems for reference. This book is available in paperback and kindle on Amazon, and can be used for reference if you are new to the Ta Da genre.

For more information and examples of Ta Da, please visit www.aili.co.uk/tada/

The Original and Official Ta Da [2-2]Guidelines

Ta Da is a new and unique short form storytelling poetry genre of only 2 stanzas of 2 lines in each stanza, with a pause between each stanza, and can be written with up to two poets.

You start a Ta Da [2 – 2] with your first stanza of two sentences, followed by a pause or breathing space, and then finish your story with another two sentences. These sentences do not need to be lengthy. They can be minimal. I have used ‘sentences’ loosely here because you can use one or more words for your ta da instead of a full sentence or sentences.

Ta Da should encompass a ‘fanfare’ of the minimalistic kind to bring attention to your paired tale of Life, Love, Loss and Renewal.

The world is your storytelling oyster and ta da continues ai li’s ethos of distilling to arrive at the very essence of a story with fewer words, its core of truth. This will give your poem its timeless power.

All four genres mentioned above are instantly recognisable by their unique and distinctive formats created by ai li.

Cherita, Gembun, Dua, and now Ta Da, along with eighteen other linked forms were all created by ai li.

The plural for ta da is ta da.
tadaga [tada-gare] is ta-da with Art, and tadabun [tada-boon] is for ta-da with Prose.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT NOT UNLIKE CHERITA AND GEMBUN, DUA, TA DA TOO, DOES NOT HAVE A TITLE.

If a Ta Da is titled, then it is rogue and not to be considered a Ta Da.

The Cherita, Gembun, Dua, and now Ta Da in my opinion, embody the true essence of short form poetry which is saying more with fewer words.

The secret is to distil, distil and distil to arrive at the essence of your story.
The pause between the two lines is the key as it amplifies the quiet before the relevance of the story sets in.
What you want to avoid is writing a diary or personal journal entry.

Like most linked forms, Ta Da can be written and used in a sequence if preferred but it remains at its most powerful as it was created – as a 2 stanza 4-line poem with a pause between each stanza, that require no other distractions, and the genre shares the same strong spirit of storytelling as Cherita, Gembun and Dua.

ai li
creator of Cherita, Gembun, Dua and Ta da
editor and publisher of the cherita

N.B.

The original guidelines for Ta Da are as above and are the only official valid guidelines for the Ta Da genre. There can be no variations to these guidelines without the permission, consent and approval of ai li, the creator of the genre. All rogue attempts to vary these guidelines remain rogue attempts and should be ignored when you write Ta Da.

G E N E R A L C O N D I T I O N S

Once we notify you that we have accepted your poems for publication, in the print, e-book, and/or online versions, please do not share or submit your work elsewhere until we have published your work, or the editor will withdraw your work from publication.

We also ask that you refrain from republishing your work in any medium [including facebook, instagram, twitter and blogs etc.] for 90 days from publication in the anthology.

the 1-2-3 press does not pay its contributors nor does it offer contributors’ copies, although they will be available for purchase. Copyright reverts to the author or artist upon publication. the 1-2-3 press reserves the right to reprint contents from its publications on its website and in future print anthologies without having to seek further permission from its submitters, and all submissions to the Cherita,Gembun, Dua and Ta Da Anthologies constitute acceptance of this condition. the 1-2-3 press reserves the right to print online or in print journals and anthologies, in whole or in part, in its sole discretion, all letters and comments to the editor without having to seek further permission from the author, and submission of comments or letters to the editor of the Cherita, Gembun, Dua and Ta Da Anthologies constitute acceptance of this condition.

Published poets of cherita, gembun, dua and ta da in the cherita and all its publications, and other original genres created by ai li, will be informed if any of their poems are featured in any published and online essays, audio and visual interviews by ai li or featuring ai li.