by Richard Subber | Oct 20, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
such tiny sounds…
walking along…
walking alone…
moving is pretty much
all there is,
the breathing, of course,
more steps to take,
the all is so close,
the wide fills the space,
striding has such power,
all thoughts are ahead,
the empty hallway beckons,
a stair is only access
to above or below,
it is no place for stopping,
there is a style of silence
and such tiny sounds
as fade each moment,
each passage is a rite,
and traverse offers turns,
the finish line is barely seen,
the final step is like the others…
this time has not been lonely.
August 23, 2026
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen,
lush and memorable stories…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 18, 2026 | Human Nature, Reflections
such gentle tendernesses…
Movie review:
Driving Miss Daisy
I guess it’s fair to say that every old lady who can’t drive any more needs a guy like Hoke Colburn to take her where she needs to go.
Even if she’s almost too cranky for words.
Jessica Tandy is the almost inexpressively cranky old lady named Daisy Werthan, who keeps on giving Hoke (played by Morgan Freeman) a run for his money every time he takes her for a run in her big old car down there in Alabama. At first she doesn’t seem to mind much at all that Hoke is a black man. Maybe the fact that she’s an old Jewish lady has something to do with that.
A couple subplots in Driving Miss Daisy (1989, rated PG, 99 minutes) are welcome extensions of what becomes the blossoming relationship between Hoke and Miss Daisy.
You don’t need to work too hard to figure out how the story ends.
You do need to keep watching with love in your heart, right up to the end, so you can feel the luxury of a good ending, and watch one of the best movie endings you’re likely to see: there are almost indescribably gentle tendernesses.
Almost forgot: there is a filmed version of a 2013 Australian theater production of Driving Miss Daisy starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones. It’s not as good as the 1989 movie. Ditto for the 1992 TV version starring Joan Plowright and Robert Guillaume.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
“…and dipped in folly…”
only Poe knows how to say it…
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 15, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
the sea is always there…
O, patient sea…
…wait for me.
I will always return.
I cannot forget the sea.
The constant sea will wait for me.
I will always return.
The breaking sea o’erflows my view,
it tumbles and splashes and glides to me,
I will return to gaze anew.
I will return to face the sea.
O, patient sea,
you need not wait for long for me.
Bethany Beach, DE
September 16, 2008
My poem “O, patient sea…” was published in my first collection of 59 poems, Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups.
You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),
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Published in Whispers, Creative Inspirations, and Northern Stars Magazine
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Book review: The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, not his best…
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 13, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
warmly readable…
Book review:
Sweet Juice and Ruby-Bitter Seed
by Merryn Rutledge
American Fork, Utah: Kelsay Books, 2023
69 pages
Merryn Rutledge writes poems like few people write poems.
There is no relentless rhyming, no uselessly bizarre collection of unrelated words.
These are poems written from the heart. They are invitations to feel what she feels.
They are warmly readable, both in silence and in your own voice.
These poems will lead you on some trails you may not have visited.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
A poet is a “maker”
…and it doesn’t have to rhyme…
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Oct 10, 2026 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
she reaches higher
brass and velvet
She does not murmur,
she will not pause,
she takes a breath
to make more song,
her singing races the keyboard
and she wins,
she embraces each tempo
and each lilt lingers,
her song gets bigger,
she reaches higher,
she brightens the airs,
her power leaps from her lips
and her heart and her smile,
her smile does not end,
the high notes are so trusting,
they chase the silence,
they wrap all ears,
they surround such blues
as may still linger,
they make a vital mix
of sound and wonder,
the words take forms we have not seen,
the sense of the song
is the swoon of the sound,
such wistful verve and rampant rhythm,
the call of the wild
revolves and turns
and emboldens,
such wonderment!
She ravishes each melody
and tempts lovers to echo the songs,
the mountains of sound
that climb from her lips,
the whirlwinds of song.
She is more than a music maker,
she is music with smiles,
her voice is brass, velvet,
a storm, a lullaby,
cymbals, the wanton wind,
treasure for poets.
She sings embraces,
her voice chases sadness,
in her gush of words
and melodies
there are no questions.
August 4, 2026
Inspired by the singing and piano playing of Violet Hanks, 12 years old,
at Linden Ponds in Hingham, MA
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Loneliness beyond understanding…
by Herman Melville
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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 8, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
…or grab a flashlight…
Book review:
Spoon River Anthology
by Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)
New York: The Macmillan Company, c1914-1944, publ. 1967
306 pages
The reputation of Spoon River Anthology is indisputable.
The reality is a matter for each reader.
For my taste, this is an exotic but deadened miscellany that tirelessly revisits a few themes. I won’t say there’s no inspiration, but you need a miner’s headlamp to find it here and there.
Many of the folks who are pushing up daisies near the Spoon River just weren’t really terribly interesting people when they were alive.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Comanche Empire
the other story of the American West…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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