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Cherita

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 there was a time

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 when our team scored
a goal

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 out of respect
the other players shook
the goal-scorer by the hand

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Notes

Cherita (pronounced CHAIR-rita) is the Malay word for ‘story’ or ‘tale’ and grew out of the haiku and tanka traditions of brevity. It was developed by ai li, the founding editor of ‘still’, a journal of short verse, in 1997. A cherita consists, according to its creator, of a single stanza of one-line verse, followed by a two-line verse, and then finishing with a three-line verse. Visit http://www.thecherita.com

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/cherita/