by Richard Subber | May 23, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections, Tidbits
walking on…
amaze
I seek a knowing path,
would know familiar walls, and doors,
each one reveals another track.
I walk on, connected to my past.
The errant ways return me to me.
I am the connection.
In myself I live, and will live.
I seek a knowing path,
I make my way,
I know familiar walls…
mirrors serve as well.
June 29, 1995
Bethany Beach, DE
walking on the sand alone
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: Shawshank Redemption
A world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | May 21, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Theater and play reviews
doing the right thing…
Movie review:
Arrival
2016, 116 min, rated PG-13 (brief strong language)
Arrival is a reflective experience of first contact with aliens who are not like us. These are aliens who, ultimately, want to do good, but the humans have to learn how to deal with this reality.
Amy Adams plays the linguist Louise Banks, and Jeremy Renner plays the physicist Ian Donnelly. They combine their robust talents to learn how to communicate with the aliens, and to try to convince their human superiors to do the right thing.
Banks and Donnelly fall in love. She saves the world. The aliens depart in peace. Her life is changed.
It’s a movie you can enjoy, no matter how many times you watch it.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
The Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 18, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
our secret…
Cipher
I cannot choose the words.
I feel a pressure, desire,
to expose a thought entire.
It will not reveal itself,
nor change to parts.
It stays hidden, whole,
startling by degrees,
urgent in its fullness,
as I begin to understand.
It is my thought.
It is me, only me.
I tell you this, only you,
because you can understand.
June 26, 1995
Bethany Beach, DE
for Barb, my dearest one
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Book review: The Proud Tower
…a lot more than a history book…
by Barbara Tuchman
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 16, 2024 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Politics, Power and inequality
“credit” is P.C. for “lending money”
Book review:
American Bonds:
How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation
by Sarah L. Quinn
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019
288 pages
Quinn writes plain academic prose, and she has a lot to say.
“Credit” is a very polite way of saying “lending money,” which is a very polite way of describing what is elsewhere called “usury.”
It’s no surprise that lending money has been part of the social, economic, and political landscapes since money was invented, and certainly credit markets have always existed in America since colonial times.
American Bonds is a deeply engrossing text (it’s not a casual read) about how folks with money and businesses and the government have used credit availability for personal, corporate, and policy advantages. Credit has always been part of the American story.
You might try reading it a chapter at a time.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Home Team: Poems About Baseball (book review)
Edwin Romond hits another homer…
Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 14, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
the curtains of dawn…
Vigil
Impatient skies
that rend the clouds,
the slowly tumbled clouds,
in their shades of gray,
the skies peek through
these languid clouds…
October 23, 2023
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Dirty Dancing (1987) (movie review)
Oh baby, baby, baby…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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