by Richard Subber | Feb 20, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
a rush of words
Words
He’s talking now,
he’s telling tales,
and he repeats
as he regales
dear Gram and me
with words so strong,
and thoughts so deep,
and bits of song.
He’s hatching words
to speak his mind.
He’s gushing words,
each one’s a trace
of what he’s learned
or redefined
or made to fit
the time and place.
This rush of words,
this glib embrace,
this triumph of
our youngest lad
is quite a thrill,
a gift each day.
His words are real
but lips and tongue
are still at play—
we don’t know what
he means to say.
We’ll love it more
when it’s all straight,
we understand,
his meaning’s clear.
For now we wait,
we make our sounds,
he doesn’t stop
or hesitate.
He’s in full voice,
it fills the ear,
the sounds of love
are what we hear.
September 2, 2015
Every kid gets to this place, don’t you love it?
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Book review: The Scarlet Letter
the beating hearts…by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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 | Feb 15, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
they’re out there…
“…be ready for every good work.”
Titus 3:1 (KJ21)
…including your own good works!
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For All the Tea in China (book review)
Sarah Rose brews the whole ugly story
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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 | Feb 13, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
quiet is what it was…
Sea quell
The immensity
shrinks to my gaze, and is still,
and the silence grows.
Duck Harbor Beach
Wellfleet, MA
September 9, 2019
Sitting on the sand at Duck Harbor Beach,
the bay was making absolutely no noise, it was dead quiet.
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American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle…
Colin Woodard makes it easier to understand…(book review)
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Feb 8, 2024 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
night songs
Singing
We explore our song of love,
with words that find our joys,
we trace our rhythms and a key,
we make new verses,
solve new rhymes,
and whisper codas in the dark,
and murmur of beginnings
as we drift to sleep.
February 28, 2023
For Barb, my dearest one
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Old Friends (book review)
Tracy Kidder really tells truth about old age…
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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 30, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Theater and play reviews
getting there…
Movie review:
To Serve Them All My Days
There is an utterly familiar plot line in To Serve Them All My Days (TV mini series, 1980-1981, 11 hours, 13 minutes): a Welsh coal miner’s son survives World War I, and becomes a teacher at a boys’ school in England south of Wales, and grows in his role to become the beloved avuncular headmaster.
John Duttine energetically plays the protagonist, David Powlett-Jones. Everyone calls him “P. J.” or “Pow-Wow,” with love and respect.
P. J. quite remarkably discovers that his calling, his life’s work, is with the faculty and boys at Bamfylde School. He judges everything from this perspective.
Much of the tale is an unfamiliarly rich creation of manifestly human characters who deal with the slings and arrows of life, and make the best of their worlds to give willing, deserving boys a good education and a glimpse of how to live a decent life.
The dialogue is above average in many scenes, and you will get inside the minds of the key players. There is enough reflection and imagination and longing and joy/despair for any discerning viewer.
No spoiler alert is needed here. You can’t possibly be in doubt about how the story ends.
In this story, getting there is the point of the journey.
Based on the 1973 novel (same title) by R. F. Delderfield.
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…it’s sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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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 27, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry
you had to be there…
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
…so edible it’s incredible
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Book review: Shawshank Redemption
It’s a world I do not want to know…
by Stephen King
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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