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 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.
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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 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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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 6, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
in birdish dreams
waiting
it hangs there,
forlorn, forborne,
a carelessly unused house,
abandoned, so it seems,
it does not glitter
in birdish dreams,
it does not make a home,
it is no shelter
for a tiny tenant
who perches at the door,
there is no tremble
of nesting work within,
there is no twitter of welcome
from a she-bird on her eggs,
there is no sentinel song
to protect a domain,
it’s a little green house,
it guards no living thing,
it adorns the tree
and awaits a rush of wings…
August 3, 2026
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Book review: Shawshank Redemption
A world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 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.
Silence
In slow moments of leisure,
admiring its reflection
in the dappled, quiet stream,
the rising sun reviews new tints
for the canvas of the morning.
Night has stolen the bright colors
of the sleeping trees,
leaving black shadows
yearning for dawn.
The sun mixes its palette of vibrant greens,
and wakens the sleepers.
The timid clouds
that blush in day’s first light
enrobe themselves in prudent white.
September 23, 2019
Inspired by “Silent Symphony” by Mary Lou Healy © 2019,
as published by Poets Collective, September 22, 2019
http://poetscollective.org/blog/silent-symphony/
My poem “Silence” was published in my third collection of 64 poems, In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears.
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or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”
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Book review: Waterloo
The slightly Hollywood bravery
of Richard Sharpe,
the butcher’s work done at the battle…
by Bernard Cornwell
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 29, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
and listen twice!
Sing!
She sings a cascade,
a gush of notes and words,
she sings a river,
great flash of song,
her singing is a dance,
all tempo,
all flash,
all swing,
her lilt won’t end,
it rises, rises…
she makes you want to sing!
August 9, 2026
Inspired by the singing of Violet Hanks
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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