by Richard Subber | Jan 27, 2026 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
losing the green…
seeing more
Again the dried leaves drift as they will,
they find their place,
they give up shape,
they make a final damp.
The trees just seem to let them go,
they waste away to litter,
the wind just seems to let them go,
they lose their green,
they come to earth,
a brittling maze, the huddled leaves,
they cease their swaying,
they cannot catch the sun,
nor make a shade,
they don’t look back
to scan the sky,
to see the bosky dells,
to gaze at vistas
that now attract the light…
The leaves have done
with hiding the thrusting trees
and the valley views
and the glades that tempt the doe
and the empty nests
that warmed the chicks…
November 7, 2025
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The Reader (Der Vorleser)
Not just a rehash of WWII…
by Bernhard Schlink
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jan 6, 2026 | Reflections, Tidbits
be thankful for more than the leftovers…
“They [the godless Yankees] had…
invented a holiday called Thanksgiving,
which Ruby had only recently got news of,
but from what she gathered its features to be,
she found it to contain the mark of a tainted culture.
To be thankful on just the one day.”
from Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier (b1950)
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997
356 pages
Winner of the U. S. National Book Award for Fiction
p. 141
Ruby always set her mind straight.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2026 All rights reserved.
“The beginning is always today.”
(quote, Mary Shelley)
so get started…
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Dec 30, 2025 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
thinking it over…
think about it
We’re walking, slow.
What’s he thinking?
What’s her fleeting joy?
Maybe they ask the same of me.
Are we really different?
I’m bigger,
they have growing to do.
I can see out the window,
they see so many things
for the first time.
I remember last week’s party,
they will re-learn the fun
of blowing out the candles.
I can ride a horse,
they can see a horse where the chair is.
I wish I could stay longer,
they will welcome my return…
…but for now, we climb the bosky trail,
hand in hand, we laugh together,
we chase that squirrel with our eyes,
we wonder:
what’s he thinking?
what’s his fleeting joy?
maybe he’s asking the same of us.
September 7, 2025
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by Richard Subber | Dec 27, 2025 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
…always more to learn…
“…people whose lives
have been made various by learning…”
Mary Ann Evans “George Eliot” (1819-1880)
English novelist, an icon in Victorian literature
from Silas Marner, p. 24
It’s so easy to think that learning is only about knowledge.
Learning changes lives and living. I don’t mind thinking that what I have learned in my life, and the learning that I continue to enjoy, has made me more various than I otherwise might have been.
You could say that variousness is the spice of life…some people might say it another way…
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Book review: American Colonies
So many and so much
came before the Pilgrims
by Alan Taylor
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Dec 23, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
the birds we do not know
knowing
I know being
and I know anticipation
and I know expectation,
and nonetheless I know surprise
and I know remembrance
and I know fear
and I know wonder…
what is it that I do not know?
what remains to be not unknown?
…which slowly singing bird
will pick my window
for her morning melodies?
September 20, 2025
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Book review:
Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
sincere, but off the mark…
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Dec 7, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
don’t try to unhear it
Hear, hear
Can you hear it?
You’re alone,
the walls don’t talk,
the plants don’t talk,
the rabbit in the yard
makes no sound,
the chair just sits there,
nature’s murmuring is too far away…
“silence” is a word
but if you say it…
Can you think a tune?
How much noise is “quiet”?
Of course,
disdain the tintinnabulation of the bells,
but listen for that small sweet note,
and hum it for a sec…
you can’t unhear it.
August 20, 2025
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The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale…book review
Literate, but impersonal
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