by Richard Subber | Oct 23, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
think a good thought…
Look up
Sure enough, another dawn
released another day,
a chance to see this old world
another way,
to take another step to futures,
a blink in time, oh sure,
but another whole day
to be alive,
to think a good thought,
to pause just once
to really spy the sallow clouds
and glance across the doughy sky,
and chance to see
that patch of personality
in the western span,
to think that, yes,
the clouds have their own time,
in separate beats,
and I can savor mine.
June 29, 2024
(Modified with feedback from Dee Bayne)
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Book review: Saint Joan
a good one by George Bernard Shaw
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 17, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
thinking blue…
Re: sky
Dear blue sky,
Suddenly I know that you are always here,
and suddenly you seem
more of a comfort than I had known.
I want to think more
about tomorrow’s day,
and the streaming days of summer,
and the stormy days
that hide your blue
by luring clouds to linger,
but you are always here.
You are what I see,
you make me think to raise my eyes,
and I do.
June 29, 2024
Inspired by Mike Franklyn
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Book review: Thieves in the Night
Arthur Koestler’s story of Galilee, before Israel…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 15, 2024 | Reflections, Tidbits
A lesson for mornings…
“Life is wide. There’s room to take a new run at it.”
Ivan Doig (1939-2015)
American novelist
Our country is suffering in these parlous times. Optimism isn’t the first thing I think of when I wake each morning.
Nevertheless, this epigram from Ivan Doig is a lesson.
I’m going to keep working hard at taking a new run at life.
The track is wide, indeed.
There’s room to do some good things.
By the way, it’s a good bet you’ll like everything by Ivan Doig. My favorite is This House of Sky, his memoir of growing up in Montana. The Bartender’s Tale is really good, too.
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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…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 12, 2024 | Poetry, Tidbits
orange you going to read this?
Someone said, “Nothing rhymes with orange.”
I said, “No, it doesn’t.”
You should take your time with this one.
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 10, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
talking to the animals…
Cat talk
She’s doing her cat thing,
nothing better to do.
Maybe that’s true,
but she won’t say it’s so,
she won’t budge,
and she won’t hunch a shoulder
in that warm spot,
and she won’t blink a yes or no
when you ask
the simplest thing,
or tilt her head
when you say hello,
she keeps her peace,
she stares as you bend down
to stroke her head,
she waits while you think about
leaving her alone,
maybe she can talk,
but doesn’t want to.
July 9, 2024
“Cat talk” was inspired by “Undercover Agent,” a marvelous painting by Jan Byrne
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Book review: The Comanche Empire
it’s that other story of the American West…
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Empyrean: new poems with 57 free verse poems,
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