Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, D is for … Dirge. Now, a dirge is a brief hymn or song of lamentation and grief, typically composed to be performed at a funeral. In lyric poetry, a dirge tends to be shorter and less meditative than an elegy. This is a poem of grief, but not for physical death. This was written last week after a colleague decided to resign as part of a canvass and layoff process at our institution. There will be a lot of this happening over the next several months…it’s not a very happy place to be right now now.

Resigned

You say, I am done
as we sit
circling you
in an embrace.

We say, how unfair.
Your time with us
like spring blossoms
wind-tossed into streets,

trampled into dust,
rain-washed
into storm drains,
forgotten in darkness.

We say, we will not
forget your smile,
but know in time
smiles also become dust.

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