I’m waiting…

 

 

Upon a time

 

For now time is my world.

My world of things exists in time,

my world of places gives the things a spot,

allotted time gives up

   the passing lifetime things renew,

to keep a place

   in pace with me.

 

I know not how to stop nor when nor where,

nor do I care to know.

I conjure places, hold a thing,

and snatch the time for it to be.

They all belong to me when I’m alone.

 

But soon each place

   will bear your stance and mine,

we’ll share our hoarded time.

We’ve cached secure in clouds a thing called love

   and, then, two smiles will burn the clouds away.

 

November 18, 1967

Bethlehem, PA

For my dearest one

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: Ethan Frome

not being satisfied with less…

by Edith Wharton

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 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”

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Here’s what you’ll find on my website:

my poetry in free verse and 5-7-5 haiku format—nature poems, love poems, poems about grandchildren, and poems for reading aloud—written in a way that invites you to know, as precisely as possible, what’s going on in my mind and in my imagination;

thoughtful book reviews that offer an exceptional critique of the book instead of a simple book summary;

my reflections on the words, art, and wisdom of famous and not-so-famous people, and occasional comments on human nature, and

luscious examples of my love affair with words.

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© 2023 – 2024, Richard Subber. All rights reserved.