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Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach
Crack of stone for rest and bed,
Wrack of storm unpressed I tread,
Sun and proud and bright and gold;
Dun and shroud of night, I hold.
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Fraternal
I have some friends I got by word,
We never met and rare conferred,
Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Athens tend
To mind and thought, which comprehend
An ancient truth, from day of yore:
When thought be one? From yonder, more.
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Long’s Drugstore, Lunch Cultus
By “lunch” is meant this pharmacy,
Persistent, from mid – century,
As many eggs for dollars three,
The kind of place we like to be.
Where they mention Sigma Chi,
Where you’ll hear On Jewish Rye,
With Father’s Father’s Father nigh,
And on the wall: that kind of guy.
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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
REMEMBER.
Remember
Poetry is the blood of your visions
It rips you apart against
The torrid consolidations of mundane
Strengths elongated in the retinues
Sparked for uncertain verses in trials.
It wants huge skies to fly
It wants ruined castles for your dreams
Vast open spaces for its habitations
Wilder faces and unknown stipends
And the spirit of beauty for
Its hearty congealments.
Open up the worlds for incantations
The barbarous that do not hold
Shipwrecks of your flesh
Sinking downwards
Pleads of the familiar
In an unfamiliar word
Silenced petals and anguished flowers.
It flies to faraway lands
It reaches molten cores of earth
It dances on raindrops of hope
It talks with dry ghosts
In the scorched summers
It accepts the cindered fragments
Forms frolicking in the liquid sea
Or shadows dipped in nothingness.
Durlabh Singh.
Thank you, Durlabh. There is much of truth in what you have said.