My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone last night: 1.8 M pageviews (FYI: On July 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.
Chen-ou
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