by Richard Subber | Jun 3, 2025 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
hark to the wind…
grass, singing
When you walk the fields,
you scuff the sopranos,
you tramp on the tenors,
you crush the chorus,
the grass, in its millions,
is singing its tiniest of songs.
If you stop to think on
what the field may know,
if you hark to the wind
but listen beneath it,
if you wait for
the coda
of the melody of the turf,
you may hear
scant words
and the lightest notes
and the endless tunes
of the sward.
March 4, 2025
Inspired by “Between Winter and Spring” by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer:
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A quote from General Custer
Hint: something to do with Indians…
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by Richard Subber | Jun 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.
skyful
The scant clouds
in disarray
are soft,
they smooth the sky
above the syrup river
that marks the horizon,
they disdain our world,
they hie away,
they flee the day.
March 6, 2025
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Book review:
Great Tales of Terror
and the Supernatural
something horrifying for everyone…
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 27, 2025 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Joys of reading, Language, Reflections
these characters are yearning, yearning…
Book review:
Victory
by Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928
412 pages
It may be that it is enough to say about Victory that it is lush prose that wraps around your mind and leaves you sated at the end of every chapter.
Conrad’s style, I dare to say, is not for every modern taste. It is dialogue-rich. The action is spare. For me, the essential appeal of Victory is the reflective context of the characters’ state of mind: their imaginations, their aspirations, their candid self-assessments.
In Victory, there is enough honesty, enough resignation, enough disappointment, enough yearning to make you feel like you want to claim that your life is good.
At least, good enough.
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Book review. 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,
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by Richard Subber | May 24, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
we can pass it forward…
in passing
Sometimes solitude
doesn’t embrace gratitude,
solitude has meaning and value,
but I am energized by “we,”
and I linger among the smiles
and do not hurry on
to the silence of myself…
…hear this, I trust my smile for others,
we can pass it forward
and never lose a mote of kindness,
we can meet the greetings
of the meek and the mighty,
and we can cast the seed
of the common good.
I think that I may think
on this again.
February 26, 2025
Inspired by “Gratitude” as valued by DeSales University, Center Valley, PA
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 20, 2025 | Language, Poetry, Tidbits
all kinds of love…
“Perfect love has a breath of poetry…”
from Silas Marner
by “George Eliot” (Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1898
p. 185
Indeed, it is an apple breath…
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
A poem about the right thing
…and the lesser incarnation…
“Vanity”
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | May 18, 2025 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
sweet success
redux
It’s okay to do it again,
we finally start to learn
that “again” is a potent word,
an invitation, a command,
a goal, a triumph,
a reminder
that we don’t always get it right,
and the do-over
can be salvation
and sweet success
and atonement,
another chance to share a smile,
another round of thank-yous,
the best “I love you”
ever whispered.
March 1, 2025
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Book review: An Empire on the Edge
by Nick Bunker
The British wanted to win
the Revolutionary War,
but they had good reasons
for not trying too hard…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 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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