Hot News: New Milestone, 2.6 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone last night: 2.6 M pageveiws (FYI: On "August 20," 2025, it reached 2.5 M pageviews; yesterday's pageviews: 6689 and this month so far from 1st-14th, 11 am: 74457) 

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 (3 following, 4,935 followers).

on the windowsill

two canaries singing

to each other

I tweet and retweet

NeverEnding Story  😋

We write to find out what we didn’t know we knew. We write to know deeper and truer. We write to connect the dots: a whole new constellation.

-- Carolyn Coman

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

-- Anaïs Nin

The proper response to a poem is another poem.

-- Phyllis Webb

To conclude today's post, I would like to share with you my tanka about writing:

paperwhite dawn ...

I wait, waiting for the Muse

to strike, and yet 

nothing comes until skylarks 

drop the silver chain of sounds