by Richard Subber | Dec 21, 2022 | Joys of reading, My poetry, Poetry
more champion stuff…
hula hope
She wanted to do it.
She wanted to keep the hula hoop around her hips,
and she knew it was supposed to go around
and around,
and she knew it wasn’t supposed to be on the ground.
She bent over to pick it up,
time after time,
imagining hope
as she hipped it again and again,
as she vainly tried to keep it whirling
and used her hands to make the thing
do what it’s supposed to do…
She didn’t understand that rhythm is work,
and hard work makes great rhythm,
and she had to give her energy to the hoop
so it could caress her little body,
and make her a champion.
August 2, 2022
Never too young to reach for the ring…
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Book review: Cleopatra: A Life
…don’t even think
about Gordon Gekko…
by Stacy Schiff
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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 | Nov 18, 2022 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
my restless eye
Whither…
I do not see the next turn in my road.
I know there will be choosing,
I know that I cannot turn
both left and right
as need there be,
that some roads
will be traveled only once,
that in my living
I may turn back, betimes,
but the journey is always different
in the second passage.
The known past dims,
and my unknown future
will brighten with every dawn,
and I know there is no certain map
of my next steps—
I am content to round the next turn,
and so to look ahead
to spy the turning
that invites my restless eye.
January 12, 2020
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Book review: The Cradle Place
by Thomas Lux
poems wrapped in a wet rag…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 6, 2022 | My poetry, Poetry
…he picks his hopscotch way…
Singleton
Too much of winter remains
to rehearse a song of spring…
The wetland flaunts its barren peat,
its withered stems,
a wastrel tree…
The debris of winter is a dowdy mantle
on the tired earth,
a bleak board for the lean pilgrim
as he scouts my yard,
he picks his hopscotch way,
his red breast dabbles color
in the last of autumn’s arid leaves…
…as he turns to me,
I whisper: “welcome”
February 26, 2020
Mr. Robin was too early, but I happily waited to see him again.
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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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 | Nov 2, 2022 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
a life story…
What the hangman hears
I’m scared
will it hurt?
can you make it quick?
I can’t hold it much longer
the rope is so big
my mother is coming
she’ll pay you
she won’t let me die
can’t you wait?
I’m scared
the rope is tight
I know Johnny will get here
I know he’s coming
he’ll bring you money
wait another minute
where are they?
I’m scared
I didn’t do it
October 28, 2021
My poem “What the hangman hears” was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited (search for “Richard Carl Subber”)
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Boz indeed! Sketches by Boz
Charles Dickens delivers,
in a fastidiously literary kind of way…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 24, 2022 | My poetry, Poetry
…interruption of the night.
Aurora
A sharp spark of dawn intrudes on the dark,
it limns the sentry line of trees
that mutely guard the wetlands,
it draws the eye but has no style,
is not sun, and scarcely bright,
yet augurs interruption of the night.
May 2, 2020
Published in Sep-Oct 2022 issue of Creative Inspirations
My poem “Aurora” was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited (search for “Richard Carl Subber”).
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“…fragmentary blue…”
a hue for you, thanks, Bob
Robert Frost, old reliable
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 12, 2022 | Human Nature, Language, My poetry, Poetry
…the vanishing point…
Love has a name
She imagined bliss in the dark
on the cool sand.
He numbly spoke his part
in a lovers’ quarrel.
She offered him so many futures together,
paired, and shared.
She offered one exotic future
in her ruby world.
She heard the lovers’ music,
not knowing that he danced
to familiar rhythms
without hearing the tune
that chimed in her heart.
She offered him their futures,
but he ensnared that single one
that would make them one,
he could not release it
to her nurture and her joyful care,
he stole the ruby future and ran away.
He left a lonely rose
and a note with two words
that she could not accept,
and he rushed to the vanishing point
on his horizon.
She held his note, signed with his “G”…
she stared at her empty horizon,
with barely hot tears,
she shuddered in the first searing sadness,
knowing that she had never spoken his name.
Feb 26, 2021
Inspired by The Good Karma Hospital, a 2017 TV series that ran for three seasons. In the last episode, Dr. Ruby Walker learns that her love affair with Dr. Gabriel Varma isn’t a love affair, and is only another example of Dr. Varma’s pathetic inability to make a commitment.
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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle…
Colin Woodard makes it easier to understand…(book review)
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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