by Richard Subber | Nov 7, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
in stiff embrace…
duchess with a bird
The hennin is the mode,
it weighs upon her head
but she does not wonder
that it claims the eye,
it is a tower, but a trifle,
the flaring horns are innocent
of finery or fancy,
they trail alike to capes
that hide much of her gown.
She flaunts her wealth and her self,
and marvels as she stands alone
in stiff embrace of the tiny bird,
her new universe, a bird’s horizon,
without joy, nor caper,
she cannot twirl.
The bird does not incline to fly,
it has no song,
quiet instants escape their time,
the bird is mystic,
it does not flail or flee,
she moves her empty hand to no avail,
together they make a tableau.
She who has no name
does not think to share a word,
she feels no need to seek for more,
the bird is indistinct, content,
it stays.
She is a duchess with a bird,
she tilts her head,
her double-horned hat flares,
it makes a scene,
it conjures trailing musics,
and pomp of court.
July 27, 2024
Inspired by sculpture at Birch Creek 315, Linden Ponds, Hingham, MA
Revised based on feedback from Dee Bayne
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 2, 2024 | 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.
Sol
That fabulous blot of starshine squeezed through
a hole in the lightening sky…
I wanted to look right through it
but the uttermost beauty
is forbidden to our mortal eyes.
Yet I turned my eyes to it again,
and tried to stay…
I tried to look closer,
I think I saw an edge
of pure, celestial delight.
Maybe I will imagine more.
I said “good morning.”
June 4, 2017
It was a transience, a moment for understanding, again, that there is more to sunrise than meets the eye.
My poem “Sol” was published in my third collection of 64 poems, In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears.
You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),
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You’re down to one piece of bread…
…would you share it with anybody?
Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
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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 29, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
share the hoping
dies spei
wish a longer day,
then grab a higher branch,
and, yes, keep climbing.
June 30, 2024
(The title is Latin for “day of hope”)
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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 | Oct 23, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
think a good thought…
Look up
Sure enough, another dawn
released another day,
a chance to see this old world
another way,
to take another step to futures,
a blink in time, oh sure,
but another whole day
to be alive,
to think a good thought,
to pause just once
to really spy the sallow clouds
and glance across the doughy sky,
and chance to see
that patch of personality
in the western span,
to think that, yes,
the clouds have their own time,
in separate beats,
and I can savor mine.
June 29, 2024
(Modified with feedback from Dee Bayne)
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Book review: Saint Joan
a good one by George Bernard Shaw
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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 17, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
thinking blue…
Re: sky
Dear blue sky,
Suddenly I know that you are always here,
and suddenly you seem
more of a comfort than I had known.
I want to think more
about tomorrow’s day,
and the streaming days of summer,
and the stormy days
that hide your blue
by luring clouds to linger,
but you are always here.
You are what I see,
you make me think to raise my eyes,
and I do.
June 29, 2024
Inspired by Mike Franklyn
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Book review: Thieves in the Night
Arthur Koestler’s story of Galilee, before Israel…
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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 10, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
talking to the animals…
Cat talk
She’s doing her cat thing,
nothing better to do.
Maybe that’s true,
but she won’t say it’s so,
she won’t budge,
and she won’t hunch a shoulder
in that warm spot,
and she won’t blink a yes or no
when you ask
the simplest thing,
or tilt her head
when you say hello,
she keeps her peace,
she stares as you bend down
to stroke her head,
she waits while you think about
leaving her alone,
maybe she can talk,
but doesn’t want to.
July 9, 2024
“Cat talk” was inspired by “Undercover Agent,” a marvelous painting by Jan Byrne
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Book review: The Comanche Empire
it’s that other story of the American West…
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Empyrean: new poems with 57 free verse poems,
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