by Richard Subber | May 5, 2026 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
they figured it out…
Movie review:
An Officer and a Gentleman
This is a girl-gets-boy, boy-gets-girl kind of movie, with bells on.
Don’t waste a lot of time being thrilled and appalled by the harsh antics of basic military training—Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for being the tough guy Sgt. Foley, but he is really background for Richard Gere slowly becoming an adult as the wannabe Navy pilot, Zack.
Zack almost without knowing it falls in love with Paula (Debra Winger), a townie who comes to need Zack in her life.
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982, rated R, 124 minutes) is a love story hiding in a coming-of-age movie about a boy and girl who finally figure out how to walk off together.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
The Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | May 3, 2026 | 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.
Tiers
These tiers, they mock the muted sky,
they roll and roil, they flash in flight,
they chase each other, chase the night…
One moment crisp, the next is plum,
and then each wisp can just become
a layered fold, a bend, a style,
a crease that beckons dawn,
a clouded bank—
the tiers portend the star of day.
February 20, 2026
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: Shawshank Redemption
A world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Apr 30, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
huggery works…
I knew what I had to do,
I tried rockin’ and rollin’ with the punch…
Wave off
One of today’s chances,
the not so good kind…
it came my way.
I said “I know you,
you want to take my time,
and that’s all that I will give—
I will not offer up
my peace of mind,
or my resolve to do good things,
or my sense that I may
hug the afternoon
and be happy
to embrace the balance of the day.”
September 14, 2018
My poem “Wave off” was published in my third collection of 64 poems, In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Sea Runners
…it informs, it does not soar…
by Ivan Doig
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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)
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Apr 28, 2026 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History
…where the buffalo stopped roaming…
Book review:
Crazy Horse
by Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)
Bibliophile, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner
New York: Penguin Group, 1999 (Penguin Lives series)
148 pages
Apparently it was Larry McMurtry’s goal in life to avoid writing everything I don’t like.
Crazy Horse is a gem: crisp, appealing, well-informed, in McMurtry’s signature style—crafted words, no nonsense, literate. This is a candid assessment of the life and times of Ta-Shunka-Witco (“His horse is crazy”) (c1840-1877).
If there had been no relentless assault against the American Indians by white America and its government, Crazy Horse might have been an anonymous, eccentric figure among the Oglala Sioux. His compatriots probably understood him about as well as we do—that is, not much.
From several points of view, in the middle of the 19th century and now, Crazy Horse was a loner and a lone eagle. McMurtry did a commendable job of trying to see the world as Crazy Horse saw it. The world as Crazy Horse wanted it to be was shriveling around him during his entire life.
It’s too bad that Crazy Horse wasn’t born in an earlier, less contentious, more agreeable time. It’s too bad that he couldn’t simply have made his home where the buffalo roamed.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Bartender’s Tale
Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 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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by Richard Subber | Apr 26, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
it feels good to say it
We say morning
I say morning,
it feels good
to say it
one more time,
I am so willing
to guess that you
are saying morning,
you walk in your garden
with the far wall of flowers…
I look for you
in my heart,
I remember all the times
we mentioned morning
when we danced
to start the day.
February 8, 2026
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: Waterloo
The slightly Hollywood bravery
of Richard Sharpe,
the butcher’s work done at the battle…
by Bernard Cornwell
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 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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