Blogging from A to Z Challenge: U is for… (#AtoZChallenge)

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with picture), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, U is for ...How can there be no forms of poetry beginning with U? The only option I can find is called an Ubi-Sunt. “A medieval commonplace that reveals the mutability of all things, the loss of all through death, by posing a series of questions that ask where the strong, the beautiful, and the good have gone.”

 

Where do we go now?
Now that we are dead
and dust and ashes?

Where are those that came before?
Only in graveyards
and buried in war-torn fields.

Where do the beautiful and the good go at the end?
Into the same ground,
Under the same trees,
marked by the same stone
as us all.

 

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter U.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Posted on April 23, 2024, in A to Z Challenge, photography, Photos I took, Writing and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.

  1. This is lovely.

  2. I like this, too. It reminds me of the song, “Where Have All the Flowers Gone”. 🙂

  3. I think you really nailed it!

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