by Richard Subber | Nov 11, 2025 | Book reviews, Books, Joys of reading, Language, Poetry, Reflections, Reviews of other poets
you don’t have to put it down…
Book review:
A Thousand Mornings
by Mary Oliver (1935-2019)
New York, The Penguin Press, 2012
82 pages
If you know nothing about Mary Oliver, this book is as good as any to make your acquaintance.
The poems in A Thousand Mornings are recognizable Mary Oliver stuff:
“…which thought made me feel
for a little while
quite beautiful myself.” (“Poem of the one world”)
“I hardly move though really I’m traveling
a terrific distance.
Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.” (“Today”)
This is a slim volume, a light collection.
You can read it in one sitting if you want to.
You just might want to.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Financier
Theodore Dreiser’s villain…
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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)
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by Richard Subber | Nov 4, 2025 | Human Nature, Poetry, Reflections, Reviews of other poets, Tidbits
Write yourself a note…
. . . what of your rushed and useful life?
Imagine setting it all down—
papers, plans, appointments, everything—
leaving only a note:
“Gone to the fields to be lovely. . .”
by Lynn Ungar
Indeed.
Color me gone.
Give yourself permission to be lovely.
From “Camas Lilies” by Lynn Ungar in Blessing the Bread: Meditations. © Skinner House, 1995.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: The Bartender’s Tale
Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Oct 21, 2025 | My poetry, Reflections
dancing is part of it…
one, two
I count the lives.
I count my own,
I will live another life today.
Future far is blank
and almost void,
today is near and full
and dances to new tunes.
Come dance with me,
we two can make one life
for at least today,
we count the steps,
we step to one more life,
we count the lives.
July 13, 2025
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A poet is a “maker”
…and it doesn’t have to rhyme…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Oct 12, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
ballare…
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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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
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many waters: more poems with 53 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 | Sep 30, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
first thoughts…
Contemplation
What did the shuffling ape
think when she saw
for the first time
a whole tree,
as it stood alone
beyond the edge of the wood?
Did she think of shape for the first time?
Did she think “bigger than me”?
Did she conjure a new word?
Did she imagine not climbing it,
and shuffling on
to where the berries grow?
Did she point to it when her mate arrived?
Did she think “I move,
I am not that thing”?
June 18, 2025
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Book review: An Empire Divided
King George and his ministers
wanted the Caribbean sugar islands
more than they wanted the 13 colonies…
by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Sep 23, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
forget about berry picking…
Contemplation
What did the shuffling ape
think when she saw
for the first time
a whole tree,
as it stood alone
beyond the edge of the wood?
Did she think of shape for the first time?
Did she think “bigger than me”?
Did she conjure a new word?
Did she imagine not climbing it,
and shuffling on
to where the berries grow?
Did she point to it when her mate arrived?
Did she think “I move,
I am not that thing”?
June 18, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale…book review
Literate, but impersonal
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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”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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