by Richard Subber | Sep 24, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
we share awareness
Occurrence
The unseen owl, that one call.
Nothing more.
What was his need? What desire?
Was it a song, so brief?
It pulsed the still night air,
a reaching sound,
meant for some creature to hear,
and I am near.
I call out my one note.
It is no answer, but affirmation:
owl, you are there, I am here.
I think to open my mouth again,
but at once I understand:
my one note is “I” —
invited by the owl’s like call.
I know the creature has heard me,
and now we share awareness,
a known, a kindred comfort.
We accept the reassurance of echo,
an essence of sensation and being,
the wonder of what we cannot see
that is yet real.
Together we call out our declaration,
in these moments we feel secure
against the near boundary of the unknown.
January 12, 2016
“Occurrence” was published online on March 26, 2020, in Literati Magazine
My poem “Occurrence” was published in my sixth collection of 73 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more.
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My poem “Occurrence” was published in my third collection of 64 poems, In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears.
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Book review: Sketches by Boz
…those Miss Willises sure are a scream…
by Charles Dickens
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by Richard Subber | Sep 22, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature, Power and inequality, World history
not everything is vanity
Book review:
The Bombing of Auschwitz:
Should the Allies have Attempted It?
Michael J. Neufeld and Michael Berenbaum, eds.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000
350 pages with extensive notes, bibliography, and index
The Bombing of Auschwitz: Should the Allies have Attempted It? is a retrospective, somewhat repetitive but broadly didactic selection of 15 arguments for and against the bombing of Auschwitz, with more than 40 primary source documents.
You’ll learn a lot about the terrible dilemma that the Allies faced—and some of them tried to ignore—during World War II. If the Allies had tried to bomb the crematoria, would Jewish lives have been saved? At what cost to the overall war effort?
Neufeld and Berenbaum offer 15 points of view, but, of course, the questions can’t be answered with full confidence.
Sadly, we can’t re-do the solitary track of history.
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Book review: Lord of the Flies
Never more relevant…
by William Golding
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by Richard Subber | Sep 19, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
in Neander time
empyrean
She walked each day
beneath the great above,
she had no word for it,
she had no need for a sound
to name what everyone saw,
from time to time she looked up,
this woman who searched for berries
and drew water from the Neander,
she saw the high colors, the nomad clouds,
the bright specks in the night,
she knew the certain track
of the star of day,
all beyond her reach, beyond her ken,
she knew their home was in the great above,
she had no reverent word for it,
she reached for another berry,
without thinking, she looked up…
June 8, 2024
it’s been there for a long time…
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Book review: The Map of Knowledge
a slo-mo version of Fahrenheit 451
by Violet Moller
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by Richard Subber | Sep 14, 2024 | Tidbits
It’s not a leg…
“How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg?
Four.
Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
16th American president
Truth isn’t necessarily what someone claims it is. Check it out.
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by Richard Subber | Sep 12, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
my final future
now then…
The unknowable future
has been around for a long time,
it is,
it will be,
the mystery is what, not if.
I realize new truths.
I’m closer to my future
than I used to be,
I’m closer to my final future.
I think more about tomorrow,
I think more about today.
Sweet futures can become sweet nows,
the nows I can know.
I can choose my next now,
I do not know tomorrow’s future,
I will live it in good time.
May 11, 2024
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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