My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone early this morning: 3.75 M pageveiws (FYI: yesterday's pageviews: 20, 710; last month's pageviews: 173,514; and on May 24, 2026, it reached 3.5 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.
No More Fairy Tales, LIV
sky tinged gray
a heron high-stepping
through plastic
It seems to me that one should only read [poems] that bite and sting you. If the [poems] we read don't wake us up with a fist to the skull, what’s the point of reading them?
-- paraphrasing Franz Kafka
And
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
-- Emily Dickinson
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, 5,211 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
all-night wrestle
with this blinking cursor curse —
alone
at morning’s lightfall
I glimpse a swift's skywriting
A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t QUIT. 😎
-- Richard Bach
Finally, the muse knocks me out 😂
Politics of Distraction, XVII
In the land of the free, dreaming ...
To American midterm-election voters
The poor and middle class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the super-rich pay lawyers, and the ultra-rich pay politicians.
smell of muggy noon —
the Reflecting Pool's blue sky
turns algae green
Trump news on mute ...
in the soup kitchen mirror
a twentysomething's stare
FYI: CBS News, June 22: Company owned by Trump donor won $1.7 million no-bid Reflecting Pool cleaning contract
Look forward to reading your poetry.
Happy Writing
Chen-ou
Added: reading between the lives and writing between the lines, XCIII
summer sunlight
pours through atrium walkways ...
flicker and flicker
on tired faces of back-alley youth
at the photo exhibit
FYI: This is a sequel to the following:
reading between the lives and writing between the lines, XCII
in held silence
the newbie bares, I used to
love getting high...
until a certain point
a roomful of heads bowed low
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCXCVIII: "Eid al-Adha"
billows of smoke
against olive-grove sunset
settler's silhouette
FYI: "Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
June 23, 2026: Undoing History
A revolution is taking place in the northern West Bank. A decades-long settler project is becoming a reality – fast. Settler representatives in the Israeli government are reaping political gains, while the IDF enables and supports the effort on the ground.
Investigation, June 23: The Israeli Far-right's West Bank Land Grab and Why It's a Ticking Time Bomb
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