Hot News: A New Milestone, 1.53 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone early this morning: 1.53 M pageveiws.

I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey, and I look forward to reading your haiku and tanka (see revised submission guidelines). 

A haiku or a tanka without "rhetoric" was likely to be no more  than a brief observation without poetic tension or illumination. -- Donald Keene, The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka Shiki, p 57.

The accepted haiku and tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and Twitter. You're welcome to follow me on Twitter at @ericcoliu, 6 following and 4,433 followers

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two canaries singing

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We read to know we're "not alone."

-- The character of C.S. Lewis in William Nicholson's play, "Shadowlands" 

The proper response to a poem is "another poem."

-- Phyllis Webb 

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