Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Hot News: New Milestone, 1.8 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone last night: 1.8 M pageviews (FYI: OJuly 14, it crossed 1.6 M view mark

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


my whisky glass
half full or half empty?
with the Muse
this Jobian struggle
over noise and silence

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


cramming 
a fall universe 
into five lines down, 
pen in hand, 
the seaside bench hard 


Sanford Goldstein 

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

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