by Richard Subber | Oct 28, 2025 | My poetry, Poetry, Tidbits
standing above the water
query
No one sees the old quarry
as darkness flees,
it’s there, it’s silent,
it doesn’t move,
may be a buzz
or twitter,
or one leaf falling,
the pond is still…
One man, solitary,
stands above the water,
urging his arms
into the air,
with some bending,
it seems like his routine,
does he care
that I see him?
July 20, 2025
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 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 23, 2025 | American history, Human Nature, Politics
good habits, bad habits…
Lincoln feared that
“democracy required habits of behavior
that people simply could not sustain.”
from:
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
Allen C. Guelzo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
247 pages
p. 142
Right now I’m not aware of a lot of good news.
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Book review: Saint Joan
by George Bernard Shaw
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many waters: more poems with 53 free verse poems,
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by Richard Subber | Oct 18, 2025 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
Frankie could marry your sister…
Movie review:
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank
You think Clint Eastwood can’t be a heart-throb sensitive guy, the kind of guy who you wouldn’t mind at all if he married your sister?
Million Dollar Baby (2004, rated PG-13, 134 minutes) is a bona fide tearjerker about a world class, down-on-her-luck lady boxer who ultimately brings out the best in her very reluctant trainer and surprises no one by becoming the love of his life.
Hilary Swank is Maggie, the wannabe boxer who can’t afford her own speed bag but has the spirit and the right moves that make her a world champion.
Eastwood is Frankie, who ekes out a low profile life as the owner of a broken down gym and disdains being a trainer for “a girl.” Maggie finally persuades him, and then love very slowly takes over.
There’s lots of action in the gym and in the boxing ring, but the real action is directed by the fat little cherub with wings and a bow and arrow.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen
…his bleak insight into human nature
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by Richard Subber | Oct 7, 2025 | Language, Reviews of other poets, Tidbits
you can make sunshine…
“…make sunshine in a shady place.”
from The Sketches of Louisa May Alcott
by Louisa May Alcott
New York: Ironweed Press, Inc., 2001
p. 250
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Movie review: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen’s classic on abuse…
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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 | Sep 25, 2025 | Reviews of other poets, Tidbits
cats are with us…
“…a sandy cat…”
Virginia Woolf said it…(quote)
no, no, not Anonymous…
“Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.”
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
I am going to try to remember, whenever I indulge in pronouncing Truth, to look for the sandy cat in the background, and to take the cat into account.
Virginia Woolf also remarked on this devastatingly probable truth:
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
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The “dime novels” in the Civil War
Think “blood-and-thunder”…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 20, 2025 | Theater and play reviews
this time it’s different
Movie review:
Last Chance Harvey
Maybe you’ve been wondering how they come up with those almost-too-hard-to-believe love stories that end with the two unlikely lovers walking off together in the tree-shaded lane.
I don’t know how they come up with them, but I discovered Last Chance Harvey (2008, rated PG-13, 93 minutes), so I know they’re out there.
You never heard of it, you say? Well, here’s a hint: there’s no sweaty sex, no car chases, no guns, no bad language…
There’s just a feel-good heart-throb story about Harvey (Dustin Hoffman) and Kate (Emma Thompson) who are having unhappy lives, who meet really momentarily by chance, who meet again with a little more time to think about possibilities, who can’t stop thinking this time it might be different…
This time it is different. Harvey and Kate slow-walk themselves finally onto a dance floor, and then they walk around town and dither about their obvious blooming feelings, and then they walk off together in the tree-shaded lane…
Are you smiling? Watch Last Chance Harvey, and do the wider smile thing.
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Movie review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2025 All rights reserved.
Book review: All The President’s Men
The men and women
who crave power…
by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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