by Richard Subber | Apr 21, 2026 | Books, Joys of reading, My poetry, Poetry
be ready…
Book-ish
Pick up that book again.
Yes, too many words,
too many pages.
In there, somewhere,
a lustrous phrase
you didn’t see,
a deepest thought
you didn’t think,
a relic of song
you didn’t sing,
a wayward dream
you didn’t know,
a sequence of best words,
they were a blur.
Take the book again,
open it where you will,
be ready for something more.
June 20, 2025
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by Richard Subber | Apr 14, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
I welcome the time…
I decided to entertain myself at breakfast in the Linden Ponds Café
by doing this little re-write
of Robert Frost’s memorable poem, “A Time to Talk.”
I kept his rhythm and rhyme, I made the text a bit smoother,
I think I preserved his earthy friendly tone.
A Time to Talk, Rick’s version
When a friend calls down to me from the road
and slows his horse to just a walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
on all the hills I haven’t hoed,
and shout from where I am: “What is it?”
I know to welcome time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
blade-end up and five feet tall,
I start to climb to the old stone wall
for a friendly visit.
February 3, 2025
Hingham, MA
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Frost’s original version, it’s in the public domain:
A Time to Talk
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
When a friend calls to me from the road
And slows his horse to a meaning walk,
I don’t stand still and look around
On all the hills I haven’t hoed,
And shout from where I am, What is it?
No, not as there is a time to talk.
I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground,
Blade-end up and five feet tall,
And plod: I go up to the stone wall
For a friendly visit.
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Book review: An Empire on the Edge
by Nick Bunker
The British wanted to win
the Revolutionary War,
but they had good reasons
for not trying too hard…
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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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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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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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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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