My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a milestone this morning:
NeverEnding Story Editor and Poet, Chen-ou Liu: @ericcoliu
5 following, 5, 000 followers
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.
We write not to pretend the pain can be contained, but to keep the door slightly ajar between the world we inhabit and the world beyond the siege.
-- Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi, Palestinian writer, poet, and editor from Gaza
collapsed school wall
a butterfly
in shades of charcoal
First Place, 22nd annual Porad Haiku Award
Chen-ou Liu
(FYI: Democracy Now, Jan.6, 2025: American Historical Association Votes Overwhelmingly for Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,
The American Historical Association, the oldest learned society in the United States, has adopted the “Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza,” condemning Israel’s “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.”)
Look forward to reading your poetry and share with you the following writing remarks and my tanka about a Sisyphean struggle with writing:
If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer, you’re a waiter.
-- Dan Poynter
Be courageous and try to write in a way that scares you a little.
-- Holley Gerth
midnight silence
as my cursor blinks nonstop
beneath the weight
of a writer's boulder ...
still I haul this thought uphill
(FYI: this tanka could be read as the prequel to the following:
drenched
in sweat and hot tears
I push, pushing
the last line of my tanka
out into this October light 😅
You fail only if you stop writing.
-- Ray Bradbury
Chen-ou
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXLVI: "skeletal houses"
thunderheads ...
a row of skeletal houses
heavy with silence
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