by Richard Subber | Apr 25, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
there is more…
Wall
The wall stands high,
it has nowhere to go,
it heeds no future,
and it will not speak the past,
its dirty stones are mute,
they’re strong,
but they merely make the wall,
each alone is naught,
the wall entire is a simple part
of a simple world
that blocks my path,
and flaunts the other ways
that make a turn to left or right,
each an adventure,
more imagining,
a few steps
to futures in the beyond.
January 1, 2024
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The wisdom of Dr. Seuss
“…don’t cry because it’s over…”
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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 | Apr 18, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Joys of reading, Reflections
soul talking…
Book review:
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
Edinburgh, Scotland: William Blackwood and Sons, 1902
Recently I re-read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It’s short, quite readable, and sombre, of course.
You may think you know the story because you saw Apocalypse Now. The book is more exploratory. It has more of humanity in it.
The protagonist Marlowe (picture Mickey Rourke in a Panama hat) dives pretty deep into the abyss of human nature…
Give the book a shot if you’re not looking for light reading.
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Book review: Forced Founders
by Woody Holton
The so-called “Founding Fathers”
weren’t the only ones
who helped to shape our independence…
My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Apr 16, 2024 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
Pluck me, I quiver…
zéphyr
More than breeze,
I hear you in receiving trees.
A little air you pluck
on topmost, bending, leafy lyre.
Your music scuttles to some other ear,
a variant tone,
I hear my own,
it stills.
Pluck me, I quiver, one more harmony…
Sing me, lifting,
I sing you,
I flutter, just a little…
assez…
June 29, 1995
Bethany Beach, DE
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Play review: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen’s classic on abuse…
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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 11, 2024 | Reflections, Tidbits
try more listening….
“And the tongue is a fire…”
James 3:6, KJV
So many good ways to mean this,
and so many terrible meanings.
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An Anthology of the New England Poets (book review)
Almost 35 poets, spanning 340 years, with rich bios…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 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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The “dime novels” in the Civil War
Think “blood-and-thunder”…
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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 | 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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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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