by Richard Subber | May 21, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, Joys of reading, Language, Reviews of other poets
Kids will love it
Book review:
Sad underwear and other complications
by Judith Viorst (b1931)
New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Simon & Schuster, 1995
78 pages
This is a great book of great poems that will make little kids laugh, and make big kids laugh, and make parents laugh.
Such as:
The Seventh Swimming Lesson
Stop the presses.
Call a reporter.
Sally just put her face in the water.
How do I know it’s a great book? I’m a grandfather, and it makes me laugh.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Movie review: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen’s classic on abuse…
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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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by Richard Subber | May 19, 2026 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
we feast on meanings
taste
a honey made of words,
verses dripping languor,
stanzas squeezing
sweet meaning from the words,
the poem is a bouquet of words,
the blooms fall open
as each phrase proceeds,
we feast on meanings,
embrace each image,
enlarge each thought,
and savor all that lingers.
March 8, 2026
Inspired by “While Listening to Others Talk about Poems in Small Groups” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, March 7, 2026
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: A Cold Welcome
The culprit was global cooling,
500 years ago…
by Sam White
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 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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by Richard Subber | May 17, 2026 | Poetry, Reviews of other poets, Tidbits
the drawbridge is creaking…
“…How can you ask a princess
To deal with this terrible mess?
Wake me again in another hundred years.”
from the children’s poem “…and after a hundred years had passed, Sleeping Beauty awoke (at last!) from her slumber” by Judith Viorst, in her book Sad Underwear, New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife
Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…
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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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by Richard Subber | May 14, 2026 | Book reviews, Books, Poetry, Reviews of other poets
una canción
Book review:
Bookjoy, Wordjoy
by Pat Mora (b1942)
New York: Lee and Low Books, Inc., 2018
32 pages
“una canción del corazón”
a song of the heart, Pat Mora’s Bookjoy, Wordjoy
If you read these poems aloud, your feet will start dancing.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Movie review: Same Time, Next Year
all-American adultery, oh yeah…
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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”
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by Richard Subber | May 12, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
rise to be a star
being star
How can you pick one to name?
Are they close or far?
Can they dance?
Is it hard to be a star?
Become a star.
Everything can be star,
words are constellations,
shining is so easy,
so good,
such beginning,
you can rise to be a star,
be celestial…
twinkle.
February 22, 2026
Inspired by “Tender Astronomy” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, Feb. 20, 2026,
and by “Winter’s Tale” movie (2014)
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: Shantung Compound
They didn’t care much
about each other…
by Langdon Gilkey
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Empyrean: new poems with 57 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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by Richard Subber | May 7, 2026 | Human Nature, Joys of reading, Language, Reflections, Tidbits
the ducks don’t think about us…
“…he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks
etching themselves against the sky over the water,
then blurring, then etching again
and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
from:
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952
127 pages
pp. 60-61
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
Book review: “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
Loneliness beyond understanding…
by Herman Melville
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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”
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