My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone late last night: 2.4 M pageveiws (FYI: It reached 2. 3 M pageviews on April 20, 2025)
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 (5 Following; 4,862 Followers).
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
-- Audre Lorde
Defy the law! –
Write the heartbroken
poetry of the World!
(often attributed to) Jack Kerouac
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CXCVII: "loose skin over bone"
this dull-eyed baby
with loose skin over bone ...
a Gazan boy
scrapes the bottom of a cracked pot
for leftover grains
And
A poem after a poem after a poem is POWER!
-- paraphrasing Margaret Atwood
Chen-ou
FYI: Defense for Children International - Palestine, June 24 2025: “Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide
Defense for Children International - Palestine, in collaboration with Doctors Against Genocide, published a report today asserting Israeli authorities have deliberately weaponized starvation as a method of genocide, resulting in the preventable deaths and suffering of Palestinian children in Gaza that will carry negative impacts for generations to come.
“Starving a Generation: Israel’s Famine Campaign Targeting Palestinian Children in Gaza” documents 33 cases of child starvation collected by DCIP’s field researchers in the Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023, and May 21, 2025. In nine of these cases, the child died. These children, all of whom died of malnutrition, ranged between the ages of one week and 10 years old. Of the other 24 cases, documenting children still suffering from the effects of starvation, 14 are under one year of age, five are toddlers, and five are school age. Five of the children are suffering from chronic diseases. These cases represent only a small fraction of the true toll, as Israel’s continued bombardment, siege, and obstruction of aid have made comprehensive documentation impossible.
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CXCVIII: "this pain that words can't carry"
in heat haze
murderaftermurder
of crows hovering
over bodies amid ruins ...
this pain that words can't carry
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily now sanctioned by the Israeli government, Haaretz," June 27: 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes.
June 28: U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF Urges Probe Into Israeli Army Fire on Gaza Aid-seekers Following Haaretz Expose
Editorial, June 29: Israel Turned Gaza's Aid Centers Into Death Traps. The Killing Has to Stop
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