‘Winter Wore a Raiment White’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream

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Winter Wore a Raiment White

Winter wore a raiment white,
Checkered blue as snow in shade,
As he worked, amid the leaves,
In the Autumn golden sheaves,

Soon my season’s time will come,
Ever cool and never glum,
Winter wore his raiment white,
Checkered blue he took delight,

November must abate, and ends
Winter, Autumn – greatest friends.

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Old September Corn

“A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast” – Solomon, Proverbs

September Corn was worn and brown
As snow was falling on the town
December frigid; foothills steep
The Angus herd stood close as sheep

Farm was closing, hands were glad
Save for one, a kindly lad
Who gleaned the edges of the field
And found the spare forgotten yield

He took the corn and drove the truck
Slow and steady through the muck
Beside the creek to feed the cows
Golden ears to help them drowse

Though gaining naught of strength or wealth
His sleep was wrought, at length with health.

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Fearless

The Angus bull, one chevalier,
The kind you’d like to buy a beer,
Of pumpkin scraps I made a hill,
Then there we sat; he ate his fill.

You get from him this leader feel;
Sort of like a reader, real.

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Chevalier – a gallant or courtly gentleman

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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.