by Richard Subber | Apr 9, 2024 | Joys of reading, Language, My poetry, Poetry
the soprano’s tear-stained kyrie
Symphony
A new book
somehow sings a siren’s song,
a symphony of words
that make a new tune,
such delight to open any page,
and hear the mezzo’s lilt,
the soprano’s tear-stained kyrie,
and nod as the basso
closes a chapter
with words worth repeating,
and let the chorus turn you
to another page,
for more words
that suddenly are not strangers,
such old words
that make a new song.
May 30, 2023
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“Boil up” and other good manners…
The “Hobo Ethical Code” is worth a quick read.
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 4, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
…for two to share
Reverie
Fireside watching after noon
on such a cloudy day,
it may be not the best of times
to stay alone here silently,
to stay inside this house
with crowded happy thoughts
on such a cloudy day.
The chill rampage encloses
house and home and hearth and me,
and I alone contain
the quiet fire and you.
Your happy smiles I know so well
surpass the warming feat
of embering wood,
the tranquil moment stays a moment more,
and one remains for two to share.
February 18, 1968
Bethlehem, PA
for Barb, my dearest one
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Book review: Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw
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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 | Mar 31, 2024 | Reflections, Tidbits
no voice too small…
“The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds…”
Book of Sirach, 35:17
Expect miracles.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
The “dime novels” in the Civil War
Think “blood-and-thunder”…
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by Richard Subber | Mar 28, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
to kiss the eye…
More
No one of the ancients
could have imagined this space,
this high empty shell
that interrupts the sky
without a bird to swoon and sigh,
this inside place
that feels so wide,
with more of space than shape,
with more of stretch
and more of up
than edge or end.
This court was built
to kiss the eye
and swallow sound,
it pulls the senses off their rails,
there is less of small,
and more of reach,
it conjures birds to nudge still air.
Atrium of Saint Vincent Hospital
Worcester, MA
June 1, 2018
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“Tear it up,” says Kurt Vonnegut
“Write a six line poem, about anything…
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by Richard Subber | Mar 23, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
Each layered wave…
Ashore
This place, it has no words for me.
The ocean makes its thrum,
it pulls the bow across the longest string…
Each layered wave aspires to end in surf,
and lightly bears its encumbering crest,
wavers at the sandy lip
and rolls beneath the swell,
makes room for every motion
that was born afar in blue water,
and sidles now to make a final turn,
becomes mere rhythm…
May 6, 2021
Ogunquit, ME
It was high tide at the Beachmere Inn.
The broad curve of the bay accepted the languid procession of modest waves…
it all seemed so unexceptional, but I know that each wave is unique until it gets to the shore line.
The tableau did not speak to me. I know that my presence was not needed.
Published in Creative Inspirations, January-February 2023
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Book review: Mila 18
horrific truth by Leon Uris
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by Richard Subber | Mar 19, 2024 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
behind the frosted mist…
Revelation
Beyond my domain, I leaned ahead
to cross the slope
under a brazen sky.
In the chill of dawn, I stopped.
The apparition…
A bull appeared.
He turned his horns to me,
showed no fear,
no gaze of knowing,
no sentient nod,
he stepped away…
Another creature shambled near,
regarded me with innocence,
and scarcely paused,
his brawny flank rippling slowly
as he passed on…
I stretched my eye
to the scant egress
of these beasts with iron mien.
Indeed, I had not crossed the path
of a rambling herd.
I chanced to find
the portal of an ancient furnace of the gods,
who took such wild ores as they desired,
and stoked their smokeless fires
behind the frosted mist,
and conjured life,
and smelted the great brutes—
cold-forged in the chill of dawn—
who stepped heavily across my path
and did not mistake me
for their kind.
January 7, 2020
Inspired by this quotation:
“I had seen a herd of buffalo, 129 of them, come out of the morning mist under a copper sky, one by one, as if the dark and massive, iron-like animals with the mighty horizontally swung horns were not approaching but were being created before my eyes and sent out as they were finished.”
by Isak Dinesen
in Out of Africa (1938)
My poem “Revelation” was published in my sixth collection of 73 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more.
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“Revelation” also was published in my fifth collection of 53 poems, My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems.
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Book review: Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen,
lush and memorable stories…
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