dVerse Poets

Norse sagas, Latin and Medieval poetry, love songs emote such questioning which has a name: ubi sunt (where are they) a term taken from the longer Latin phrase, Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt (where are those who were before us)?

And our MTB prompt today is simply to use this Ubi Sunt motif in your poetry as such:

• title your poem with the question – where are the/they…
• use the questioning within your poem, even with repetition
• DO NOT ANSWER it though – the questioning is rhetorical
• employ concepts of mortality, the transience of life, a sense of nostalgia
• suggested themes: Childhood; Youth; Lost Generation; Days of Yore;
• employ whatever poetry style of your choosing from free verse to sonnet

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where are they

minions of the past

rebels true

unafraid

where are these brave purveyors

we need them – come back

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Shardoma

MTB: Ubi Sunt and that Where, Oh Where?