by Richard Subber | Dec 7, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
don’t try to unhear it
Hear, hear
Can you hear it?
You’re alone,
the walls don’t talk,
the plants don’t talk,
the rabbit in the yard
makes no sound,
the chair just sits there,
nature’s murmuring is too far away…
“silence” is a word
but if you say it…
Can you think a tune?
How much noise is “quiet”?
Of course,
disdain the tintinnabulation of the bells,
but listen for that small sweet note,
and hum it for a sec…
you can’t unhear it.
August 20, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale…book review
Literate, but impersonal
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Dec 4, 2025 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature, Reflections
the far side of yourself…
Book review:
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien (b1946)
New York: Broadway Books, 1990
273 pages
Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam war veteran.
If you served in the Vietnam war, you have a perspective for reading The Things They Carried.
If you didn’t go to Vietnam, you have a different perspective.
If you weren’t born until after the war ended, you have a different perspective.
Tim O’Brien speaks to you, read his words any way you want.
All of us are still carrying some of the things we carried in those years.
Can anyone point to feelings that haven’t changed since then?
Whether you’re a veteran or not, O’Brien invites you to get “in touch with the far side of yourself” (p. 123).
The Things They Carried is about burdens and our capacity to accept them.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
A beloved teacher,
you know this story…
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Dec 2, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry
The Book of Days
The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.
There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”
It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.
Scarcely day
It’s early morn again,
I see that day has chased the dawn,
the bland sky is one dimension,
no color, no cloud,
no excitement in the sky,
day has come,
I make a dawn in my mind,
too soon to think about tomorrow.
March 23, 2023
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review:
American Scripture:
Making the Declaration of Independence
…basically, it’s trash talk to King George
by Pauline Maier
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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