by Richard Subber | Apr 7, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
we did it…
once…
We did a big thing.
We got dressed up,
invited family and friends,
said the words,
traded rings,
danced at the party,
drank the champagne,
stood for the picture,
rolled away in the car…
we started our lives together.
September 28, 2025
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 2, 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.
to come
The star of day
troubles low clouds
in the earliest dawning,
there is none of day,
the horizon a muddle,
the faint light
pushes the high dark,
a promise strains in the vault.
November 16, 2025
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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 29, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
touching, of course…
Caress
Seeing you each day
is part of the fullness
of my life,
you live in my world,
I feel your touch,
I hear your laugh,
your murmurs are music,
the bright of your eye lives on,
the squeeze of your fingers
surrounds my hand.
All of me loves all of you.
January 4, 2026
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The “dime novels” in the Civil War
Think “blood-and-thunder”…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Mar 24, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Politics
our old friend Martin
Questions
Did you see the man we can call
“our old friend Martin”?
It seems the good they die young,
but we can remember
the goodness that he preached,
and the goodness that he lived,
and we can murmur his name
as we do a good thing today,
and do the same tomorrow.
The man called Martin
pointed the way
and he asked many questions.
He recalled the Good Samaritan who asked:
“If I do not stop to help this man,
what will happen to him?”
The man called Martin said:
“The question is, ‘If I do not stop
to help the sanitation workers,
what will happen to them?’
That’s the question.”
Martin said “I have been to the mountaintop.”
The mountaintop is far,
maybe a lifetime journey away,
and few of us may make it
to the mountaintop,
but we can murmur Martin’s name
as we do a good thing today
and do the same tomorrow.
Will you do a good thing today?
That’s the question.
January 2, 2026
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Book review: The Comanche Empire
the other story of the American West…
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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 17, 2026 | Books, Joys of reading, My poetry, Poetry
not just any book…
old books
A book is not just a book.
The writer knows the book,
at least, the wholeness of it,
and what was left unscribed.
Each reader knows the book,
at least, the meaning of the words
in their order,
and in their revelation,
and in their singularity,
their growth as understanding molds them.
An old book is a shell of its time,
a memento of its era,
a souvenir of thought and thinking,
a precious invitation
to live in the past,
a reality of expectations,
generations of meaning,
a companion of other words.
December 24, 2025
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Book review: Sketches by Boz
…the Miss Willises are a scream…
by Charles Dickens
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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 10, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
on the move
motion
We long to move,
we shun to stay,
we yearn to talk,
we won’t be still,
we welcome coming,
the going is okay.
December 20, 2025
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Book review: The Poems of Robert Frost
he hears bluebirds talking…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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