by Richard Subber | Dec 7, 2023 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
new birdsong…
Think again
I had this idea about immortality,
but I was thinking about the wrong future.
The lab guys said they could archive my brain,
do a download of my mind and memories,
back me up on a secure server,
give me a digital life that won’t quit,
write new words for “I ain’t got no body.”
I thought I could live forever.
I was thinking about the wrong future.
Future isn’t the forever thing.
I forgot that now will last forever
in this network that has no sunrise.
I forgot that future is the next bit
of new birdsong,
the next kiss from a sweet child.
I forgot that there will be no more sniffling,
no more brie and crackers,
no more warm hugs,
no more purling brooks,
no more sunsets
that just squeeze all joy
into my eyes.
November 16, 2021
I’m inspired by Mike Franklyn’s poem, “Ah! To Be Human”
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Book review: Girl with a Pearl Earring
This is Tracy Chevalier’s bucket of love…
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by Richard Subber | Dec 5, 2023 | Human Nature, Language, Reflections, Theater and play reviews
losing sight of right and wrong…
Movie review:
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons (1988, rated R, 119 minutes) is not a garden of delight.
If you aspire to a working understanding of good and evil, you could do worse than listen to the riveting chatter of the leading personae: the Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich). They choose each word with careful, deliciously ribald, austerely cruel, and domineering intent.
This is a boundless exposé of the worst elements—of human intrigue, self indulgence, hubris, vaunting egos, and careless poaching of souls—that masquerade as amour.
Dangerous Liaisons is an ultimately degraded experience for both the characters and viewers, who must condemn the marquise and the vicomte for so many lives destroyed…death is an anticlimax in Dangerous Liaisons.
The marquise and the vicomte are burdened with a moral framework that shuns the absolute—they have unimaginably unsatisfied desires, and no intellectual imperative of right and wrong.
They swirl through their lives, casually jousting with each other as they amuse themselves in controlling the fates of other men and women, without realizing that they are not in control of their own fates.
The movie is based on a 1782 French epistolary novel titled Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, available in English translation.
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Dirty Dancing (1987) (movie review)
Oh baby, baby, baby…
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by Richard Subber | Nov 30, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
…to murmur love
quickie
…wait for a verse to come,
wait for a verse to come,
and let its style surpass itself,
and let it sing for two hearts,
let it fling off care,
let it be our newest way
to murmur love.
Rumford, RI
June 6, 2023
for my dearest one
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“Impedimenta”
I breathe in, deeply…(my poem)
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 28, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, World history
women did most of the work…
Book review:
Code Girls:
The Untold Story
of the American Women Code Breakers
of World War II
by Liza Mundy
New York: Hachette Books, 2017
416 pages
It’s a fascinating and inspiring story about World War II.
Incredibly talented code breakers—most of them women—significantly helped to win the war by breaking German, Japanese, Italian, and many other wartime codes, and supplying urgently timely information to Allied forces, and significantly helping to save Allied lives.
No one knows how many Allied fighting men and women, and civilians, survived the war because of the “code girls.”
Code Girls has enough about the esoterica of code breaking to satisfy the most knowledgeable fan, but not so much that it will stupefy a typical reader of history.
For my taste, Mundy tells a bit too much of the untold story. After I got into the book, I started to feel like I didn’t need to know any more about bunches of “code girls” sharing a bathroom in a crowded wartime boarding house in Washington, D.C.
p.s. I’m searching for a book about the code breakers on the other side.
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Does the public want public interest news?
Is it news to you?
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by Richard Subber | Nov 26, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
no portent of delight…
Momentary
There is beauty in being,
stunning beauty of the moment,
when creature and bloom
make a tiny community of two,
the flower offering so much,
as if caring to give energy for life,
the butterfly taking so little.
No guardian brings them together
to share goodness
for futures they do not share,
a metamorphosis brought them alive
but did not portend delight,
did not augur the beautiful exchange,
it set them free to play a role,
their give and take is feeding my soul.
August 3, 2022
Published in Creative Inspirations, Sep-Oct 2022 issue
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