My Dear Friends:
NeverEnding Story reached new milestones late last night: 8 M pageviews (FYI: On September 22, 2026, it reached 7 M pageviews).
I’m grateful to everyone who has shared this poetry journey. NeverEnding Story now seeks haiku and tanka submissions. 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; 5,287 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
My fingers click-clacking — hail against the window.
what's left unsaid
between words and lines ...
alone at false dawn
And
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
-- Seamus Heaney, Ireland's most renowned poet since Yeats, playwright and translator who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature
Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCCXXIII: "smoky fog"
The smoky fog shrouds where a centuries-old Gazan mosque stood
afterwards
anything matters?
news on mute
FYI: Out of approximately 1,275 pre-war mosques in the Gaza Strip, 1,050 have been completely destroyed and 191 have been partially damaged (totaling 1,241 affected mosques). And according to both Geneva Conventions, Protocols I and II and the Rome Statute, Article 8, bombing religious sites is considered a war crime.
And most importantly, a gentle reminder:
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
The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.
—Dylan Thomas
A poem after a poem after a poem is POWER!
—paraphrasing Margaret Atwood
Look forward to reading your poetry
Happy Writing
Chen-ou
