Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Wade in the water....

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My love affair with blue water

…and I have promises to keep (a poem)….

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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

That kid on the beach....

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“Sara from South Dakota”: a poem

A kid in love with the ocean….

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Monday, December 26, 2016

Kids could ask the darnedest questions....


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Same questions, different answers….

Anticipating the kids’ questions on the Charles River tour, my poem….

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Friday, December 23, 2016

Listening to the sea....

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The sea….just listen….

My poem about the silence of the sea

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Yearn, my heart.

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Movin’ on….

….my poem about doin’ it my way….

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Saturday, December 17, 2016

A wolf knows....

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My haiku about partnership in the animal world

Stayin’ alive…

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Thursday, December 15, 2016

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An impulse of the eye....

Worlds, whirling, waiting….

I whirl and stretch to the horizon….

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Sunday, December 11, 2016

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You are seeing this message because you are one of the generous, enlightened folks who have been following my blogs:  Barley Literate, History: Bottom Lines, and Magister Librorum.

Thank you for taking an interest in my scribbling, I hope I have informed and entertained you now and then.

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Rick Subber

That shell at Bethany Beach


On finding a shell at Bethany Beach

You’ve seen one like this, the one that isn’t “just” a shell….

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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Book review: The New England Poets


Book review: An Anthology of the New England Poets

Almost 35 poets, spanning 340 years, with rich bios of these iconic scribblers….

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Thursday, December 8, 2016

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

You can hear immensity tapping....


My review of Jane Hirshfield’s poem “Tree”

Listen….you can hear immensity tapping….

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Sunday, December 4, 2016

Rick Subber's poetry


Chant de mer

A poem about listening to the sound that needs no ear….

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Friday, December 2, 2016

Another poetry heard from….(part 9)



Naomi Shihab Nye offers some deft strokes in her poetry, and I’d like to tell you about one of them….

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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Après-midi des enfants


Après-midi des enfants

My poem about the kids, in the afternoon, in the water….

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Friday, November 25, 2016

Understanding the “o” word


“Old” is a highly charged word. A poem about the process of aging and being aged, without using the “o” word:

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Poetry alive!


A poet can bring the darnedest things to life. Want the big word? anthropomorphic

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“…the hollow men…” and so on….


“…the hollow men…” and so on….

I respectfully think that T. S. Eliot’s poetry is a bloomin’ wasteland….

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