by Richard Subber | Sep 19, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
in Neander time
empyrean
She walked each day
beneath the great above,
she had no word for it,
she had no need for a sound
to name what everyone saw,
from time to time she looked up,
this woman who searched for berries
and drew water from the Neander,
she saw the high colors, the nomad clouds,
the bright specks in the night,
she knew the certain track
of the star of day,
all beyond her reach, beyond her ken,
she knew their home was in the great above,
she had no reverent word for it,
she reached for another berry,
without thinking, she looked up…
June 8, 2024
it’s been there for a long time…
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Book review: The Map of Knowledge
a slo-mo version of Fahrenheit 451
by Violet Moller
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by Richard Subber | Sep 12, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
my final future
now then…
The unknowable future
has been around for a long time,
it is,
it will be,
the mystery is what, not if.
I realize new truths.
I’m closer to my future
than I used to be,
I’m closer to my final future.
I think more about tomorrow,
I think more about today.
Sweet futures can become sweet nows,
the nows I can know.
I can choose my next now,
I do not know tomorrow’s future,
I will live it in good time.
May 11, 2024
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by Richard Subber | Sep 8, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
the thin line of future…
another day
…the distant horizon moves closer,
it creeps, of course, or sidles,
there is no romp, nor dash,
one need not notice every day,
it is no rush to change the way
we live enough in each bright hour
to fill our time,
we may look up, forsooth,
and see the thin line of future
shuffling nearer,
seeming clearer,
waiting for the clarion of tomorrow.
June 3, 2024
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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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by Richard Subber | Aug 27, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
talk trash to the wind
des arbres et vents
The trees do not seek the wind,
but they grow where it goes.
A tree knows its work:
a tree stands in rain
and growth happens
time after time,
and a tree stands in snow
and holds it aloft
for us to see,
and a tree welcomes critters
who need a high place to live.
Every tree tempts the breezes
and taunts the wind,
boughs do not break
as they beckon all winds,
the limbs slide and sway
and push the wind aside,
the trees eat the wind
under sun and stars,
each tiny twig, each lazy leaf
talks trash to the wily wind
that knows about the detours
in great worlds of open air,
but won’t give up the endless gift
of giving the trees
a reason to bend
as they turn the wind
into wrinkles that slump and hide,
among the unseen nests
of the birds and squirrels.
May 23, 2024
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84, Charing Cross Road (book review)
Helene Hanff, on reading good books…
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Aug 22, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
I realize new truths…
now then…
The unknowable future
has been around for a long time,
it is,
it will be,
the mystery is what, not if.
I realize new truths.
I’m closer to my future
than I used to be,
I’m closer to my final future.
I think more about tomorrow,
I think more about today.
Sweet futures can become sweet nows,
the nows I can know.
I can choose my next now,
I do not know tomorrow’s future,
I will live it in good time.
May 11, 2024
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“Tear it up,” says Kurt Vonnegut
“Write a six line poem, about anything…
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by Richard Subber | Aug 15, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
what’s it all about?
another thing
j’ever notice
that they never look up
to look at the phone?
head tilted down,
the obvious sign,
body still,
thumbs awhirl,
faintest breaths…
how often have you seen
someone pumping a fist
and shouting “yeah!”
after scrolling down
one more time?
Try talking to that guy
in the waiting room
who hasn’t looked up
from his phone
since he sat down…
think about being him…
it won’t take long.
May 9, 2024
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1491 by Charles Mann (book review)
…lost American legacies
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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