by Richard Subber | May 30, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
the trusting babe…
Near
…close enough to feel my thumb
in her searching grip,
close enough to share
her apple breath,
close enough to cradle
her weight across my arm,
and weep true love’s tears
as she suddenly sleeps
without a care…
August 27, 2021
I was walking around our kitchen, in early 2011, with my first granddaughter in my arms.
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Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
Oh yes, the Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 28, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature
self-serving lies, and dreams…
Book review:
The Self-Made Man in America:
The Myth of Rags to Riches
by Irvin G. Wyllie (1920-1974)
New York, The Free Press, 1954
210 pages
The Self-Made Man in America is a historian’s delight.
Wyllie offers the multiple meanings of “the self-made man” throughout American history, connecting historical elements of the American dream and the self-serving promotion of the concept by titans of industry and their bankers.
There is a panoply of quotations from key decision-makers throughout the decades that aid the reader in understanding how Americans at all ranks in the socioeconomic spectrum advocated, criticized, and embodied the siren song of “the self-made man.”
To be sure, Wyllie plainly states his verdict: “Throughout all our history the self-made man was the exception not the rule…success has been for the few, not the many….Men who occupy the lowest places in our society have known the facts for a long time…but…men on the bottom need dreams.” (p. 174)
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review:
Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
he’s sincere, but off the mark…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 25, 2023 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
What do you understand?
“Man that is in honour,
and understandeth not,
is like the beasts that perish.”
Psalm 49:20
King James Bible
Think about what you understand.
Think about what you know are the right things for you to do.
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Guess who wasn’t coming to dinner…
Not too many black doctors
actually showed up for dinner in 1967…
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by Richard Subber | May 23, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
still guarding the flame…
My goodnight to you
Tho’ dark my candle will not be,
it burns bright with my love for thee,
yet all else must be shadowed
once each day,
and carefully must I guard my flame
to shield all else that slumbers,
else not “Good night” to you
but to the world must I explain
and say “I love her.”
Bethlehem, PA
1967 or 1968
This is perhaps the second love poem I wrote for my dearest one.
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“…the frosted flowing stream…”
(“The water way,” poem)
…defies the glaze of winter
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | May 20, 2023 | Human Nature, Tidbits
the other side…
(Ann Kelmot) “The dead are not so very far away.
They’re just on the other side of the wall.
It’s us on this side who are all of us so…”
(Sherlock Holmes) “…alone.”
Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes, Hattie Morahan plays Ann Kelmot
in Mr. Holmes, a 2014 film by Lionsgate
…I’m alone, but I’m lucky to have so many memories
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
On the Beach by Nevil Shute (book review)
It isn’t out of date…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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