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‘Hope’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream

June 4, 2025
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Hope

What task be done, you thought was not?
What asked and sought, forgot, was wrought?
What strain was set against a blow?
As gain unfettered, bettered, lo,

The frost was last before the sun;
What once was lost recast as won.

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The Moment

“And I knew just as surely, and just as clearly, that life is not a work of art, and that the moment could not last.” -Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It

The moment that could never last,
It fomented, to sever fast,
Crafted thus, as ever hast
Been. Dormant though; it did not die,
Somnolent, sweeping, low to fly,

And as a dream that touches morn,
Again to gleam, and much reborn.

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All the People

Where do all the people go?
Here and there, they ebb and flow,
What do all the people say?
As they hurry on their way,

What do all the people think?
As they eat and as they drink,
Likely much the same as me;
Striking such resemblance be.

Photo by Clayton Samuel Trette

 

 

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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.

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Comments 7

  1. Dona Fox says:
    8 years ago

    I enjoyed these poems so much I couldn’t stop reading them. Thank you.

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    • Neal says:
      8 years ago

      You have brought a great smile to my face Dona; thank you.

      Reply
  2. Christine Tabaka says:
    8 years ago

    Marvelous!

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    • Neal says:
      8 years ago

      Thanks much, Christine – difficult not to be so with images such as these.

      Reply
  3. Neal says:
    8 years ago

    the first memory of good form I recall was the quick sound of the heel of my mother’s shoe clicking on the wood floor…”We’re going to the Cotillion.” I was 4 and didn’t know what a cotillion even was, or that waiters also wore tuxedos, like my father.

    I was “impressed,” meaning that I was imprinted (italics) with an outline of good form.

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  4. Wendy Bourke says:
    8 years ago

    Insightful pieces, rendered with an insightful clarity … a pleasure to read.

    Reply
    • Neal says:
      8 years ago

      Thank you Wendy; I am glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading and saying so.

      Reply

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