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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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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by Richard Subber | Dec 4, 2025 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Human Nature, Reflections
the far side of yourself…
Book review:
The Things They Carried
by Tim O’Brien (b1946)
New York: Broadway Books, 1990
273 pages
Tim O’Brien is a Vietnam war veteran.
If you served in the Vietnam war, you have a perspective for reading The Things They Carried.
If you didn’t go to Vietnam, you have a different perspective.
If you weren’t born until after the war ended, you have a different perspective.
Tim O’Brien speaks to you, read his words any way you want.
All of us are still carrying some of the things we carried in those years.
Can anyone point to feelings that haven’t changed since then?
Whether you’re a veteran or not, O’Brien invites you to get “in touch with the far side of yourself” (p. 123).
The Things They Carried is about burdens and our capacity to accept them.
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Book review: To Serve Them All My Days
by R. F. Delderfield
A beloved teacher,
you know this story…
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by Richard Subber | Nov 29, 2025 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
we made our present…
“…if we persevere and remain generous of heart,
we may be granted
a moment of supreme lucidity—
a moment in which all that has happened to us
suddenly comes into focus
as a necessary course of events…”
from A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles (b1964)
New York: Penguin Books, 2016
462 pages
p. 441
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84, Charing Cross Road (book review)
Helene Hanff, on reading good books…
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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 | Nov 25, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
no clock needed for dancing…
daily
The arrow of time flies high
and low and ever on,
and sometimes slow,
time creeps, betimes,
a pause is not unknown…
My time’s my own,
I guard it
when there is no room for dancing…
July 12, 2025
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Book review: The Snow Goose
…sensual drama, eminently poetic…
by Paul Gallico
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 74 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Nov 20, 2025 | Human Nature, Joys of reading, Language, Reflections
take time to share…
“In the life of each of us, I said to myself,
there is a place remote and islanded,
and given to endless regret or secret happiness…”
from
Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels and Stories
by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)
The Library of America
New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 1994
937 pages
p. 444
…sharing is what comes to my mind
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 52 free verse and haiku poems,
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