ai Li
Creator of cherita, Gembun & Dua
The Wise Owl talks to ai li, creator of Cherita, Gembun and Dua, three unique storytelling short form genres. She is also the editor of the cherita, founding editor and publisher of still, moving into breath and dew-on-line. 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 and The College of Psychic Studies, London. ai li’s poems have been widely published in the UK, USA, and Japan
Cherita by ai (as quoted in the Interview)
cherita by ai li (As quoted in the interview)
ai li
wordsmith * storyteller * word healer
cherita is now 27 years old
22 June 1997 – 22 June 2023
storytelling is oxygen for the soul
and
storytelling on its own is incomplete,
you have to feel what you have written
ai li
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dream sequence by ai li
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1]
alone
in empty space
i lean on
memories
to start
the carousel
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2]
i’m a friend
of rain
i listen
once i too
fell from
the sky
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3]
time machine
who will build it now
to stop the princess
from getting
into
the black Mercedes
For Diana, Princess of Wales 1961-1997
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4]
finishing what you were
placed here
to do
you walk
into the mountains
to become sunrise
*
5]
an old name
in Chinese
for fireworks
smoke flowers
a banquet of echoes
for the night sky
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6]
scented page
what was
left
in here
from
the Alhambra
*
7]
father’s voice
on a still night
he hasn’t left
in dreamtime
even when
leaves fall
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8]
nothing left
for me
to do
but write myself
out of
this empty room
all cherita copyright © ai li 2023
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Cherita by ai (as quoted in the Interview)
nothingness by ai li
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1]
the silverfish and i
get acquainted
over an old ghost story
when winter arrives
on the page
of the dead
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2]
honeysuckle cottage
i left you behind
30 years ago in my dreams
but on this cold night
you perfume
all my longings
*
3]
the hologram of you
will always be
in my consciousness
i still talk to you
about moonlight
and old dreams
*
4]
they have all gone
before me
the quiet
of chinese new year
with opera
in the other world
*
5]
my inner scars
let
there be
dragons
to burn
them off
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6]
in a room
rented
without language
skintalk
then the moon
came
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7]
crooner
her night
begins
with rhinestones
and sequins
sewn into dreams
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8]
a life
apart from poetry
i cook, clean,
launder, iron
and bake
sublime cherry madeira
all cherita copyright © ai li 2023
Cherita by ai (as quoted in the Interview)
the promise of rain by ai li
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1]
she is always writing
in her dream
by a window
the baby dragon
snoring
at her feet
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2]
a fortune teller
in
the empty house
night must fall
before i ask her
where love is
*
3]
this aging place
you used
to call
home
the colour of stove
in north wind
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4]
a cup of tea
forecast
of snow
i wrap
my shadow up
in cashmere
*
5]
i’ve become a peacemaker
for my soul
it’s happy
to sit home now
make fudge
and not attempt Everest
*
6]
the word homeless
becomes
another old
winter story
that takes
breath away
*
7]
the call
from someone
who died young
to come out
and play
a ghost moon
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8]
the illusionist
telling me
it’s all smoke
and mirrors
my shadow nods
in the empty room
all cherita copyright © ai li 2023