Hot News: New Milestone, 3 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

My Dear Friends:

NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone early this morning: 3 M pageveiws (FYI: On "August 20," 2025, it reached 2.5 M pageviews) 

I’m grateful to everyone who has shared this poetry journey. NeverEnding Story now seeks haiku and tanka with teeth—poems that bite hard.

[Poetry] should afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.

Our Republic and its [poetry] will rise or fall together. 

-- paraphrasing Joseph Pulitzer, prominent journalist, newspaper publisher and creator of the Pulitzer Prizes

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 (4 following, 5,060 followers).

on the windowsill

two canaries singing

to each other

I tweet and retweet

NeverEnding Story  😋

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

coffee gone cold

as the cursor blinks

all night long

I stare out at snowflakes

that never settle

A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. 

-- Richard Bach

coffee ring on ring ...

I type five lines, five lines

then delete all

start again as robins sing

sing up the morning sun

And

Every time a poem is written, every time a short story is written, it is written not by cunning, but by belief. The beauty, the something, the little charm of the thing to be, is more felt than known.

-- Robert Frost

Look forward to reading your poetry

Chen-ou