by Richard Subber | Sep 12, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
a thing of great wonder
getting closer
The word “finality”
seems to be on my mind,
I don’t think the end is near,
but I think of it more often.
I don’t think I’m afraid to die,
but it can be a thing of wonder.
My younger me had almost no time
to think of ending,
but now it seems more real.
July 12, 2026
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Book review: The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, not his best…
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by Richard Subber | Sep 8, 2026 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
each layered wave…
Ashore
This place, it has no words for me.
The ocean makes its thrum,
it pulls the bow across the longest string…
Each layered wave aspires to end in surf,
and lightly bears its encumbering crest,
wavers at the sandy lip
and rolls beneath the swell,
makes room for every motion
that was born afar in blue water,
and sidles now to make a final turn,
becomes mere rhythm…
May 6, 2021
Ogunquit, ME
It was high tide at the Beachmere Inn.
The broad curve of the bay accepted the languid procession of modest waves…
it all seemed so unexceptional,
but I know that each wave is unique until it gets to the shore line.
The tableau did not speak to me.
I know that my presence was not needed.
Published in Creative Inspirations, January-February 2023.
My poem “Ashore” was published in my eighth collection of 57 poems, Empyrean: new poems.
You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),
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A Farewell to Arms (book review)
classic Ernest Hemingway
with relentlessly realistic dialogue…
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by Richard Subber | Sep 1, 2026 | 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.
Casserole
A plump expanse,
delicious reds,
maybe good enough to eat,
the vault is filled,
it lures the eye,
it makes a feast.
May 13, 2026
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Book review: Shawshank Redemption
A world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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by Richard Subber | Aug 25, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
take a quick look
Escape
Hustling through the sky,
who knows where it goes,
this scumbled track on the move,
it has no final stop in mind,
it runs, it flows,
it escapes to another sky,
and far away,
it thins, it slows,
it fades.
May 31, 2026
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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by Richard Subber | Aug 20, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
filling the horizons
green, green
Green is everywhere,
it’s in the trees,
covers the ground,
it sprawls,
fills the horizons,
boasts its green-ness,
sings of life,
hums its faithful hue,
it welcomes me,
this color of joy.
June 4, 2026
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Book review: The Comanche Empire
the other story of the American West…
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by Richard Subber | Aug 11, 2026 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
say it out loud…
buttah
What is so easy about
learning an accent?
Sit down at the diner,
and hear the gent
in the next booth
ordering his meal,
and listen to him
saying “buttah” for his toast
and “buttah” for his muffin,
and so casually you think you know
his parents
and his birth place
and his region,
and his different-ness
and his limits,
and his prescribed life
and his narrow self…
He is so knowable,
but wait—
he listens when you speak…
May 24, 2026
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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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