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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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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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,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 16, 2025 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
what are their names?
waiting
I wait.
The waiting.
The words take their time,
they tumble with my musing,
they taunt and tempt
and temporize,
the words can hide and peek,
they wait to be a gush,
I want to call to them
but I do not know their names,
each one in its own moment
quivers in the poem-to-be,
waits for me to grab the quill,
and I wait.
July 14, 2025
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Book review: Mila 18
horrific truth by Leon Uris
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 12, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
ballare…
daily
The arrow of time flies high
and low and ever on,
and sometimes slow,
time creeps, betimes,
a pause is not unknown…
My time’s my own,
I guard it
when there is no room for dancing…
July 12, 2025
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 2, 2025 | Language, 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.
Above all
A sunrise so paintable it brushes away
my faint recall of others I have seen…
A sunrise, surely, cannot be
the best of all dawns
since that first one,
but, still,
this startling canopy of latent reds,
and dappled puffs of barely more than air,
is there, blushing,
billowing itself to demean all rivals.
This sky high bloom,
chromatic, marbled,
vastly still in each moment,
paused in fleeting time
to tempt a longer view,
teases my delight
with every hint of lasting grace
that all too soon will fade
to drab wists in blue air.
Above all, I see
this flirtation of the elements,
this wanton splash of radiant sky
that kisses my eyes,
but won’t commit
to be there for me tomorrow.
February 21, 2017
My poem “Above all” was published in my sixth collection of 73 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”
My poem “Above all” was published in my second collection of 47 poems, Seeing far: Selected poems. You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle), or get it free in Kindle Unlimited, search for “Richard Carl Subber”
Published in the Fall 2018 issue of miller’s pond
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by Richard Subber | Sep 30, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
first thoughts…
Contemplation
What did the shuffling ape
think when she saw
for the first time
a whole tree,
as it stood alone
beyond the edge of the wood?
Did she think of shape for the first time?
Did she think “bigger than me”?
Did she conjure a new word?
Did she imagine not climbing it,
and shuffling on
to where the berries grow?
Did she point to it when her mate arrived?
Did she think “I move,
I am not that thing”?
June 18, 2025
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Book review: An Empire Divided
King George and his ministers
wanted the Caribbean sugar islands
more than they wanted the 13 colonies…
by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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