by Richard Subber | Oct 21, 2025 | My poetry, Reflections
dancing is part of it…
one, two
I count the lives.
I count my own,
I will live another life today.
Future far is blank
and almost void,
today is near and full
and dances to new tunes.
Come dance with me,
we two can make one life
for at least today,
we count the steps,
we step to one more life,
we count the lives.
July 13, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
A poet is a “maker”
…and it doesn’t have to rhyme…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 18, 2025 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
Frankie could marry your sister…
Movie review:
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank
You think Clint Eastwood can’t be a heart-throb sensitive guy, the kind of guy who you wouldn’t mind at all if he married your sister?
Million Dollar Baby (2004, rated PG-13, 134 minutes) is a bona fide tearjerker about a world class, down-on-her-luck lady boxer who ultimately brings out the best in her very reluctant trainer and surprises no one by becoming the love of his life.
Hilary Swank is Maggie, the wannabe boxer who can’t afford her own speed bag but has the spirit and the right moves that make her a world champion.
Eastwood is Frankie, who ekes out a low profile life as the owner of a broken down gym and disdains being a trainer for “a girl.” Maggie finally persuades him, and then love very slowly takes over.
There’s lots of action in the gym and in the boxing ring, but the real action is directed by the fat little cherub with wings and a bow and arrow.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen
…his bleak insight into human nature
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 16, 2025 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
what are their names?
waiting
I wait.
The waiting.
The words take their time,
they tumble with my musing,
they taunt and tempt
and temporize,
the words can hide and peek,
they wait to be a gush,
I want to call to them
but I do not know their names,
each one in its own moment
quivers in the poem-to-be,
waits for me to grab the quill,
and I wait.
July 14, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: Mila 18
horrific truth by Leon Uris
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 14, 2025 | Book reviews, Books, Books Commentary, Joys of reading, Language
a one-man library…
Book review:
Literary Life: A Second Memoir
by Larry McMurtry (1936-2021)
Simon & Schuster, 2009
McMurtry moves me to want more, read more….
It’s incredibly easy to read McMurtry—I’ve read Books: A Memoir, Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, and now Literary Life. It seems, repeatedly, that he writes in an off-hand way; thoughts and scenes and chapters can end very abruptly. Yet, the work seems polished. The prose is spare, as Larry acknowledges.
I am titillated by his familiar references to so many authors and works. I would love to be a “man of letters,” as McMurtry claims to be. The draw for me is McMurtry’s immersion in books. I would be thrilled to own 200,000 books. Desperately thrilled.
I’m pretty sure that McMurtry’s passionate engagement with books and authors is a believable lifestyle. His many references to re-reading books is a believable commitment.
I have for some time, since I retired, envisioned taking the pledge to read the entire oeuvre of an author I like. Now I am moved to read McMurtry’s books. I plan to re-read Books and Literary Life to get clues about how to read them. I’ll consider reading his works in order by pub date, except for the Lonesome Dove and Berrybender tetralogies, of course.
I don’t think I’ll be disappointed.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: Hag-Seed
by Margaret Atwood…it ain’t Shakespeare
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 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 | Oct 12, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
ballare…
daily
The arrow of time flies high
and low and ever on,
and sometimes slow,
time creeps, betimes,
a pause is not unknown…
My time’s my own,
I guard it
when there is no room for dancing…
July 12, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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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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