NeverEnding Story

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Poetic Musings: Iris Haiku by Jane Reichhold

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eyes in secret places deep in the purple middle of an iris Frogpond , 23:3, Autumn, 2000 Jane Reichhold Commentary:  The Technique of Double...
Monday, August 25, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Daybreak Haiku by Vladislav Hristov

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English Original daybreak no load on the crane hook Frogpond , 45:1 Winter 2022 Vladislav Hristov   Chinese Translation (Traditional) 黎明時刻 一...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Biting NOT Barking: Words Tanka by LeRoy Gorman

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English Original unhoused or homeless as if words matter ice rain or sleet Ribbons , 21:1, 2025 LeRoy Gorman Chinese Translation (Traditiona...
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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Special Feature: Selected Poems for Reflections on UN-Declared Gaza Famine, A Famine on all of Our Watch

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(FYI:  +972 Magazine ,  independent, non-profit media initiative, Israel-Palestine August 21, 2025 : In a joint investigation by Israel'...
Friday, August 22, 2025

A Room of My Own: Smoky Silence Haiku

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smoky silence crater after crater rainbowed with oil Added: elbows up, elbows down ... the PM's mouth opens and closes in summer heat FY...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Petunias Tanka by Thelma Mariano

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English Original rows of petunias all pink and evenly spaced to think my life could have been that predictable Thelma Mariano   Chinese Tran...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Hot News: New Milestone, 2.5 M Pageviews and Call for Submissions

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My Dear Friends: NeverEnding Story reached a new milestone late this morning:  2.5 M pageveiws  (FYI: On June, 13 2024 , it reached 2 M page...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Lanterns Haiku by Robert D. Wilson

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English Original starlight sky ... the river lined with lanterns Mann Library’s Daily Haiku , July 3, 2021 Robert D. Wilson Chinese Translat...
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Monday, August 18, 2025

Butterfly Dream: River Baptism Haiku by vincent tripi

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English Original The turtle’s plash just around the corner a river Baptism Global Haiku , 200 vincent tripi  Chinese Translation (Traditiona...
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Sunday, August 17, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Lover Tanka by Hortensia Anderson

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English Original by moonlight through the screen window my lover climbs in the darkness between the sheets A Hundred Gourds , 1:1, December ...
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Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Room of My Own: Skin against Skin Tanka

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Yellowing Memories , VIII written in response to The Telegraph, August 15 : Putin prepares nuclear missile tests in veiled threat to West we...
Friday, August 15, 2025

To the Lighthouse: Effective Use of a Run-on Title

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A run-on title is a phrase in the title space that starts a grammatical unit in the following poem text. For example, my tanka prose below: ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Doe and I Haiku by Michele Root-Bernstein

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English Original evening hush the doe and I in one regard Modern Haiku , 43:3, Autumn 2012 Michele Root-Bernstein  Chinese Translation (Trad...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Butterfly Dream: Summer Nights Haiku by Masaoka Shiki

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English Original how much life is left to me -- brief, these summer nights Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan , 2018 Masaoka Shiki...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

One Man's Maple Moon: Burden Tanka by Aya Yuhki

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English Original there is no way but that one carries one’s own burden I walk in the dimness of day Eucalypt , 3, 2008 Aya Yuhki  Chinese Tr...
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Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐
Born in Taipei,Taiwan, Chen-ou Liu was a college teacher, essayist, editor,and two-time winner of the national Best Book Review Radio Program Award.In 2002,he emigrated to Canada and settled in Ajax,a suburb of Toronto. Featured in New Resonance 7: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, and listed as one of the top ten haiku poets for 2011(Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011),Chen-ou Liu is the author of five books, including Following the Moon to the Maple Land (First Prize, 2011 Haiku Pix Chapbook Contest) and A Life in Transition and Translation (Honorable Mention, 2014 Turtle Light Press Biennial Haiku Chapbook Contest). His tanka and haiku have been honored with 161 awards,including First Prize Co-Winner, 7th and 8th International Tanka Festival Competition, 2012; Tanka First and Third Places, 2011 San Francisco International Competition; Grand Prix, 2010 Klostar Ivanic Haiku Contest and First Prize Co-Winner, 2010 Haiku International Association Haiku Contest.
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