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To a Brother in Paris
Like Sun in the woods, or a cold Summer rain,
Would trouble make goods, and loss create gain.
Then bound to a Lady, and allied to Bro,
With the grace of God found, wherever you go.
Be wrought and be taught, as you progress through life,
And fraught be your thought, with gladness not strife.
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Desert Storm, Prairie Lines
Stream and river, reservoir
Gleaming color, desert floor
Sky of rain and buxom cloud
Fiery vein and thunder proud
Storm benign of lake rebirth
Farm and wine and break of mirth
Alarm of kine and slake of Earth
Form divine mid aching dearth.
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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.
Incredible balance and play with rhythm and rhyme.
Thank you Shari, and thanks for saying so. Sylvia my Mother and Al my Father read Longfellow and Kipling to me when I was very young.
Neal Dachstadter