by Richard Subber | Nov 18, 2025 | Human Nature, Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
“…sounds that do not invite love…”
I know that much of ordinary human conversation
is essentially gossip about people we know,
experiences we’ve shared, and everyday occurrences.
Technically, even if you think you don’t gossip,
most likely you do quite a bit, every day.
Babel
The buzz of the crowd.
Social noise is so tolerable,
so remarkably incidental,
essentially careless communication,
public talk for private ears,
an imperative stream of disposable words.
Profoundly human noise.
No other creature babbles while feeding and drinking,
no other creature squanders such precious energy
to make noises that do not bring food,
to utter sounds that do not invite love
and do not demand respect.
No other creature is so fond of gabble,
so willing to abandon privacy
and say so many words
that almost no one wants to hear.
December 5, 2015
Pervasive gossip, de facto, is neither good nor bad. Most human beings incessantly communicate with each other.
My point is that gossiping in public can be noisy, intrusive, distracting, wondrously irrelevant, and, occasionally, disgusting. Usually, I really don’t want to hear your half of the cell phone conversation.
Now, talking—that’s a different story.
Talk it over with your friends.
My poem “Babel” was published in my second collection of 47 poems, Seeing far: Selected poems.
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Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 13, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
my reflective poem,
written with an offshore breeze…
Remembrances
(Je me souviens)
Airs and airs, brisking through the afternoon,
fill my ears with ruffling sound,
and fully charge my mind with half-drawn shapes,
many half-thought fancies,
and many second memories
of once-remembered moments in the afternoon.
September 18, 2015
You’ve listened to this kind of breeze at the seashore. It’s not strange that it never stops. These airs are reminders of the ways we’ve turned our heads, so many times, to face a new direction or an old reality. I stood on First Encounter Beach, in Eastham on Cape Cod, at high tide in the late afternoon. I wasn’t alone but I kept my thoughts to myself at the time. I’m not sure I was fully conscious of everything I was thinking. I do know that I remembered a couple things for the second time, and that was good.
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My poem “Remembrances” was published in my first collection of 59 poems, Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups.
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Book review: A Cold Welcome
The culprit was global cooling,
500 years ago…
by Sam White
Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 9, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry
look twice…
Look at that
Gosh,
crimson for my eyes,
candy for my lips,
orange peal for my ears,
the tree’s a treat,
leave it at that.
October 15, 2022
My poem “Look at that” was published in my seventh collection of 53 poems, many waters: more poems.
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Book review: Tales from Shakespeare
summaries by Charles and Mary Lamb…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 1, 2025 | 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.
Rising
O sol! star fire in the sky!
I cannot look at your eye
as you climb the day,
and I will not look away.
May 24, 2019
My poem “Rising” was published in my sixth collection of 74 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more.
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My poem “Rising” was published in my fourth collection of 55 poems, As with another eye: Poems of exactitude.
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Book review: “The Gentle Boy”
The Puritans had a dark side…
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 28, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Tidbits
standing above the water
query
No one sees the old quarry
as darkness flees,
it’s there, it’s silent,
it doesn’t move,
may be a buzz
or twitter,
or one leaf falling,
the pond is still…
One man, solitary,
stands above the water,
urging his arms
into the air,
with some bending,
it seems like his routine,
does he care
that I see him?
July 20, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Oct 21, 2025 | My poetry, Reflections
dancing is part of it…
one, two
I count the lives.
I count my own,
I will live another life today.
Future far is blank
and almost void,
today is near and full
and dances to new tunes.
Come dance with me,
we two can make one life
for at least today,
we count the steps,
we step to one more life,
we count the lives.
July 13, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
A poet is a “maker”
…and it doesn’t have to rhyme…
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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”
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