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, U is for …Uni Sunt.

Ok, there are very few (i.e., no) poetry types beginning with U except for this one that I could find. “A number of medieval European poems begin with this Latin phrase meaning “Where are they?” By posing a series of questions about the fate of the strong, beautiful, or virtuous, these poems meditate on the transitory nature of life and the inevitability of death. The phrase can now refer to any poetry that treats these themes. One of the most famous ubi sunt poems is “Ballade des dames du temps jadis” (“Ballad of the Ladies of Times Past”) by medieval French poet François Villon, with its refrain “Where are the snows of yesteryear?”

This is my interpretation of this kind of poem, very loose, but given layoff notices at work began to come out yesterday, I think I’m allowed a little latitude…

The World is Too Much

Where can we go, with
troubles all around,
swarming like crowds
at the next blockbuster movie,
growing like appetites longing
for an extra-large pizza?

Let me bury myself
under extra-large hoodies
on my comfy chair,
layered with kitty purrs
until it’s safe to emerge.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter U.