by Richard Subber | Apr 1, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry
The Book of Days
The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.
There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”
It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.
Scant
A low montane bank
that has nowhere to go,
the weight of sky above it,
unyielding earth below.
It does not block the sun,
nor beckon for the day,
it is a vestige, aye,
and soon to go away.
December 3, 2024
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: Forced Founders
by Woody Holton
The so-called “Founding Fathers”
weren’t the only ones
who helped to shape our independence…
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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 | Mar 23, 2025 | Books, My poetry, Poetry, Politics, Reflections, Tidbits
Too many gulfs…
Hand me that hammer
This lightening sky pulls my eye
upward from newly darkening earth.
Our troubled plain
has no points of light just now.
We face fears, terrors, hates, imprecations,
repudiations, exclusions…
Too many gulfs appearing,
too few bridges imagined
in the grim thoughts of too many.
I will build one bridge today,
I welcome this lightening sky
to ease my work.
November 9, 2016
I work on building a bridge every day.
I try to do a good thing every day.
That’s good for me and for America.
It helps to keep me sane.
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Book review: All The President’s Men
The men and women
who crave power…
by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
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by Richard Subber | Mar 18, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections, Tidbits
again is anew…
…and old sneakers
We move, we huff,
we quiver, we chant,
thoughts galore will tumble
as the hot routine deepens,
the workout is good,
no doubt,
we mime the young
as we get old,
we walk the track,
the countless reps,
the 1-2-3, the look-and-see,
the bobbled step,
the front and back,
the in-and-out…
This cheerless time,
this silent gym,
this jumbled gear,
the shadowed clock…
look the same as yesterday,
but…
I conjure me,
a brand new thought,
a slower step,
I see a different future,
the silence is a private tune,
I whisper behind my eyes
that more is more,
again is anew,
the moving is progress,
it is long moments in my life.
November 24, 2024
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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Mar 11, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry
he rang a bell…
a style of song
He wore rough clothes,
scuffed heavy shoes,
he knew where he was going
but he kept a shuffle pace,
he had no look of joy,
there was no kind of sparkle,
only placid look ahead,
as if starting out on plain old day…
with quiet voice he rang a bell,
he filled the silence,
I could tell
he was no stranger to the song—
he sang the word:
“somewhere…”
and took a breath
and let immensity swell again,
and murmured:
“…over the…”
and I wanted to help him sing.
he kept on walking…
December 19, 2024
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Book review: Mila 18
horrific truth by Leon Uris
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by Richard Subber | Mar 6, 2025 | Books, My poetry, Poetry
a dog like him…
Oh, LeRoy!
It’s just not true that every ranch
has to have a dog like him,
but try to name a place that calls
itself a ranch, and claims with pride
to be a place where cowboys ride,
and doesn’t have a lanky pooch
who sleeps in all the darnedest spots,
and loves a scratch, and likes the kids,
and knows his name is LeRoy.
Every dude at Smith Fork Ranch
made friends with him without delay,
and learned his name, and scratched his head,
and waved him into line to join
the hike up to the bears’ own ridge,
and cheered him on when he detoured
to splash around in that high pond,
and made a point, back at the ranch,
to grab a treat from LeRoy’s jar
and make him “Sit!” (he almost did).
You’ll guess these stories never end,
but you don’t know that we were there
on our last day, when that old truck
made too much noise in passing by,
and LeRoy knew—to keep us safe—
he had to snarl and bark and run
to chase that truck—but oh!, too close…
He never knew how many tears,
so many tears we had for him.
October 15, 2016
LeRoy died at Smith Fork Ranch, Crawford, CO, in September 2007.
My poem “Oh, LeRoy!” was published in my second collection of 47 poems, Seeing far: Selected poems.
You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),
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Book review: The Sea Runners
…it informs, it does not soar…
by Ivan Doig
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Mar 1, 2025 | Books, Language, My poetry, Poetry
The Book of Days
The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.
There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”
It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.
a tasting
…the second look is the keeper.
The clouds are shifting shapes,
moving quickly
across the new morning sky,
the smudge and fold of flannel,
becoming flan,
nudging the smear
of cream sauce,
filling the sky
with hasty pudding
and the like,
making a menu
that lasts mere moments…
January 4, 2025
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Book review: To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
A beloved teacher,
you know this story…
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