by Richard Subber | Aug 10, 2024 | Language, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections, Tidbits
a chime in the dark
Another time
That single chime,
sometime in night,
there is no rhyme,
try as I might
I cannot conjure
a dancing wight
who sings that tune,
no song sublime,
no twist of rune
that I can write.
I let the chime expire,
I savor it entire,
perhaps Great Pan
may favor it
to puff his pipes,
and thrill the mime
in pagan rite,
in distant time.
May 8, 2024
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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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by Richard Subber | Aug 6, 2024 | Human Nature, Tidbits
talk it up…
Samuel Adams (1722-1803) said that friendship,
at its best,
is “thinking aloud together.”
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Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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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 | Jul 25, 2024 | Human Nature, My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
try whispering to your dog
Say what?
We’re not as special as we think we are…
We don’t really rule the earth,
we can’t fly,
or snooze at the bottom
of the deep end of the pool,
and we can’t even roll over when we’re born,
we tend to be messy
when we’re not paying attention,
most of us think wearing shoes is normal,
we think dirt is dirty,
we don’t like to admit
that we eat dead things,
and we think a horse whisperer
is some weird guy,
we think reading and writing
is our thing,
and we think “Sparky, here boy!”
is the right way to call the pup,
and we ignore this mystery:
What if your dog can talk,
but he won’t?
April 19, 2024
I guess you’ve thought about it…
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Book review: The Bartender’s Tale
Ivan Doig’s story, I mostly loved it…
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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 | Jul 23, 2024 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature
talk a lot, pick a little…
Book review:
What the Robin Knows:
How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
Jon Young
Boston: Mariner Books-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
241 pages
“Just as scientists have identified elements of human speech that reflect a speaker’s emotions, field experiments have shown that the calls of many animals provide listeners with information about objects and events in the environment. Like human speech, therefore, animal vocalizations simultaneously provide others with information that is both semantic and emotional.”
p. 105 from What the Robin Knows
The birds talk to each other. All species of birds and many species of other animals also listen to birds. Both prey and predator species listen to the birds. We can listen to birds.
I suspect that Young’s widely experienced detail must be a bit deceptive. I suspect there is more randomness than Young explains. If there weren’t some randomness, the predators would have figured out the patterns long ago.
…and some other thoughts: suppose the birds are really talking…what if your dog can talk and chooses not to?
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
“Fishering,” by Brian Doyle
…what meets the eye…
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by Richard Subber | Jul 21, 2024 | Human Nature, Reflections, Tidbits
the words will come…
“It is a fact of human life
that one must eventually choose a philosophy.”
from A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles (b. 1964)
New York: Penguin Books, 2016
462 pages
p. 146
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Book review: The Scarlet Letter
the beating hearts…by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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by Richard Subber | Jul 16, 2024 | Theater and play reviews
“Wolverines!”
Movie review:
Red Dawn
Red Dawn is more than a shoot ‘em up movie.
Red Dawn (1984, PG-13, 114 minutes) is all-American stuff—the mountaineering teenage heroes, with Boy Scout gear and some guns, prevail over the invading Russian paratroopers. It makes you want to shout “Wolverines!” It was still a Cold War environment in 1984, just sayin’.
Jed (Patrick Swayze) and his friends try to talk out their issues of patriotism, humanity, privation, and growing up. There is death, and triumph, and betrayal, and pride, and growing up.
It helps that the Russian soldiers are by-the-book brutal characters, not too smart, and they can’t seem to beat a small gang of teens (“Wolverines!”) who are “hiding” in the mountains.
There’s another Red Dawn film, done in 2012 (PG-13, 93 minutes), with a similar story line. It’s a remake, but it’s not fully baked, it’s mostly action and shooting. Don’t bother with it.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2024 All rights reserved.
Go Down Together…Bonnie and Clyde (book review)
they were violent criminals
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Above all: Poems of dawn and more with 73 free verse poems,
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