Hot News: New Milestone, 2.2 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone this morning: 2. 2 M pageveiws (FYI: NeverEnding Story reached 2. 1 M pageviews on November 25, 2024)

I am grateful to everyone who has been a part of this poetry journey. And NeverEnding Story now seeks the haiku and tanka that can bite and bite hard. 

The accepted haiku and tanka will be translated into Chinese and posted on NeverEnding Story and X. And you are welcome to follow me on X at @ericcoliu (6 Following; 4,762 Followers).

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.

-- Toni Morrison, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear"

Defy the law! –

Write the heartbroken

poetry of the World!

(often attributed to) Jack Kerouac 

I write as fast

as a downhill skier

then backtrack

revision by revision ...

my gaze turns to the hilltop moon

Chen-ou Liu

(FYI: For more about revisions, see To the Lighthouse: Revision, Revision, and Revision 😅)

And

A poem after a poem after a poem is POWER!

-- paraphrasing Margaret Atwood

Chen-ou