The Book of Days…part xxxxi

The Book of Days…part xxxxi

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.

 

Fanfare

 

A blazon of cinnamons

   in the high eastern sky,

a syruped swirl of portents of day—

the star ascends to lofty lightening realms,

where heralds sound the trumps of dawn

   to chase scant remnants of the night.

 

October 31, 2018

 

My poem “Fanfare” was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems.

You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),

or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: The Comanche Empire

the other story of the American West…

by Pekka Hämäläinen

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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no words needed…  “nondescript,” my poem

no words needed…  “nondescript,” my poem

leftovers of night

 

 

nondescript

 

a rummage of grey,

slowly drifting fluff

   above the trees,

a kind of weight of clouds

   that does not hasten

      for impending day…

 

January 23, 2024

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

Loneliness beyond understanding…

by Herman Melville

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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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“…she never looks up…”   “facta,” my poem

“…she never looks up…”   “facta,” my poem

teasing for recognition

 

 

facta

 

She has a plan.

 

The cotton balls are vital,

she keeps a handy supply of

    cardboard and colored paper.

tape is essential,

tape is the key

   to all exactness in the doing,

speed is not exactly the entire reality

   but deliberate haste is her style,

she builds with mute devotion to the outcome,

identity is not so needful

   as function and connection,

her creatures are elegant monstrosities,

her temples are sturdy elaborations of design

   and form that find barely imagined boundaries,

her hybrids tease for recognition

   in their own dimensions,

her work is her success, her doing, her design.

 

She’s busy, she never looks up…

 

July 21, 2019

 

If you have good stuff, you can make anything.

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

For All the Tea in China (book review)

Sarah Rose brews the whole ugly story

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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iambic pentameter, a sample…my poem

iambic pentameter, a sample…my poem

a better way to say…

 

 

In search of…

 

I wish I had a better way to say

the things I really want to hear today.

Alas, I don’t, and there’s the rub, you see?

The words I want won’t blossom here for me.

 

April 6, 2015

Sayin’ it the iambic pentameter way…

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: Forced Founders

by Woody Holton

The so-called “Founding Fathers”

weren’t the only ones

who helped to shape our independence…

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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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“the trees lean in…”…“woodward,” my poem

“the trees lean in…”…“woodward,” my poem

yesterday’s trail…

 

 

woodward

 

The mystic mess

   of leaves and twigs

      and fractured stones,

no trace of steps,

the trees lean in

   to shade

      the vestige of a path,

there is the jumble

   of shapes no one has touched,

the water of each season

   knows its way,

the damp persists

   in darkened earth,

scant colors fleck

   the sombre tints,

a jewel of nature’s wont…

 

February 16, 2024

 

A view from the Woodland Crossing-Oakleaf link at Linden Ponds, Hingham, MA

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Book review: Seven Gothic Tales

by Isak Dinesen,

lush and memorable stories…

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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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The Book of Days…part xxxx

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.

 

 

moments

 

where treetops touch impending sky,

the tempting color of day,

a hem of dawn

   on the quilt of night,

 

it holds my gaze for these moments…

 

December 21, 2023

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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.

 

Old Friends (book review)

Tracy Kidder tells truth about old age…

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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”

 

Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.

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