by Richard Subber | Feb 1, 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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The “dime novels” in the Civil War
Think “blood-and-thunder”…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 27, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
losing the green…
seeing more
Again the dried leaves drift as they will,
they find their place,
they give up shape,
they make a final damp.
The trees just seem to let them go,
they waste away to litter,
the wind just seems to let them go,
they lose their green,
they come to earth,
a brittling maze, the huddled leaves,
they cease their swaying,
they cannot catch the sun,
nor make a shade,
they don’t look back
to scan the sky,
to see the bosky dells,
to gaze at vistas
that now attract the light…
The leaves have done
with hiding the thrusting trees
and the valley views
and the glades that tempt the doe
and the empty nests
that warmed the chicks…
November 7, 2025
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The Reader (Der Vorleser)
Not just a rehash of WWII…
by Bernhard Schlink
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 20, 2026 | My poetry, Other, Poetry
clouds sound off…
cloud talk
I guess that clouds may skirr,
they are so far away,
they do stir
and frolic in the sky,
they may whir,
who hears the sound of clouds?
betimes they clap!
withal, they may purr…
October 1, 2025
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The poetic art of Grace Butcher
Poetry for reading out loud…
it’s that good
Book review: Child, House, World
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 13, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
we made our time…
our time
Remembering,
the good time,
the quiet time that lasts so long,
we had our time,
we made our time,
we pushed our time
to be the days and nights,
we filled our time together,
and now I give such time
as two could share,
I make more time for you.
November 2, 2025
for my dearest one
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Book review: Lafayette by Harlow Unger
He was a great man. Also rich and lucky.
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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 | Jan 8, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry
where do they go?
Seasoning
No one really knows,
but so many think they care
when the summer goes,
and yet, no one ponders “where?”
The seasons are quite real,
their cycle is quite strong,
they have unique appeal,
and each has its own song.
October 6, 2025
Hingham, MA
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Book review: The Sea Runners
…it informs, it does not soar…
by Ivan Doig
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 1, 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.
Lazing…
Arched across the vault,
these vapors linger,
barely nudged by breezes of the night,
these lazy smears of dawn,
they do not hide,
nor reach for higher sky,
but mark impending day…
July 13, 2024
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1491 by Charles Mann (book review)
…lost American legacies
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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