Hot News: New Milestone, 1.9 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone last night: 1.9 M pageviews (FYI: On January 22, 2023, it crossed 1.5 M view mark) 

I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. 

writer's block?

Oh, I don't have time for that ...

this moonless night

becomes darker and heavier

with rent hike and snowfall

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. 

-- Thomas Mann

And 

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. 

-- Elie Wiesel

musing, I cram

thoughts of being a poet

into five lines ...

this man's face, his silver-hair 

ripple in the lake of my mind

(for Sanford Goldstein, the father of tanka in English)

Ribbons, 19:3, Fall 2023

Chen-ou Liu

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, "poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty." 

-- Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, playwright and translator who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Look forward to reading your haiku and tanka (see haiku and tanka submission guidelines)

Happy Writing    😎

Chen-ou