The Case of the Absent Q #atozchallenge #Uganda #acholi

A beautiful language

almost like a song

letters and accents

sounds short, some long

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this old tribal tongue

I looked hard didn’t see

the Q is missing

oh woe, woe is me

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quite lost without questions

as are kings without Queens

kids never Quiet or Quick

a Quandary I can’t see

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I’ll manage without Quakes

but Quiche a sad day

cold nights without Quilt

no Quails fly away

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scribe’s Quill never broken

duck’s Quack you won’t hear

author never to be Quoted

Quinine Quashed dear , oh dear

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and so I end

my absent Q song

grab a letter

sing along

In the spirit of a favorite writer Doctor Seuss, I ponder the case (with little or no quantum leap) of the lost or absent “Q”

Acholi Alphabet (thanks to Acholi-Luo folk Culture blog site)

 

Thanks to the A to Z folks for letting me have some fun today with the letter Q

 

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