Roberta Writes – Thursday Doors and d’Verse Poetry, MTB: It Begins to Dawn #ThursdayDoors #d’VersePoetry #poetry

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This week for Dan’s Thursday Doors, I am sharing my photographs of a traditional Norwegian Church. We saw this interesting building at the Norwegian Folk Museum during our recent visit. You can join in Dan’s challenge here: https://nofacilities.com/2024/07/11/beer-club-doors/

Picture caption: Traditional Norwegian church at the Norwegian Folk Museum
Picture caption: Close up of the entrance to the church
Picture caption: Close up of the front door into the church
Picture caption: view of the side of the church

d’Verse MTB prompt

Today’s prompt is hosted by Laura. You can find Laura’s lovely poetry here: https://poetrypix.com/

You can join in this challenge here: https://dversepoets.com/2024/07/11/mtb-it-begins-to-dawn/

And now for todays MTB prompt we are writing in the poetry style of the A L’Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca:

Poetry style:

  • 4 stanzas (or more)
  • 8-lines per stanza (can split with line break after 6)
  • only lines 6 & 8 are to rhyme as x,x,x,x,x,a,x,a; x,x,x,x,x,b,x,b etc
  • no syllable count per line

Poetry Subject: Lamarca’s A L’Arora derives from “Aurora” – Italian for “dawn”:.

  • Write about the dawn – literally, metaphorically, objectively, personally or however it strikes you
  • OR
  • Write of dawn as a verb (dawns/dawning), a slow or sudden realization

Are you there God?

Are you there God? It’s me, Robbie 1

I hope you’re listening; I could really use your help

I want to be less sensitive, less condemning

More understanding when loved ones

Turn selfish, mean and unduly critical

In difficult situations that already drain

I need your support to forgive

And see what’s causing another’s pain

***

Are you there God? It’s me, Robbie 1

Are you listening? You made me the way I am

An empath, I absorb emotion and stress

Soak up others anguish and desperation

I can never turn my back on need

It’s okay, I don’t want to change

No one is invisible to me, I see everyone

But I’d like to be understood in exchange

***

Are you there God? It’s me, Robbie 1

Your wise scholar, C.S. Lewis, once said:

“Hell is a state where everyone is perpetually

concerned about his own dignity and advancement

where everyone has a grievance

and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions

of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”

You gave us free will, we are responsible for our actions

***

Are you there God? It’s me, Robbie 1

The road to hell is paved with good intensions 2

Protection and interference when wrongly applied

Bring about a far greater emotional problem than

Providing needed assistance and facilitating

What must ultimately be done regardless

Today, I hope to find a dawning of acceptance

Which will lead me out of the awful darkness

  1. A quote from the title of Judy Bloom’s book “Are you there God, It’s me Margaret?”
  2. An old proverb
Picture caption: Early morning sky in the bush
Picture caption: Early morning sun reflecting on a pond in the bush
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  1. the images of dawn in the heavens match your prayerful conversation and the ultimate dawning of acceptance

    p.s. the C.S. Lewis reference was new to me but I wonder if you know his book “The Great Divorce”

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    1. Hi Laura, I hoped this worked for your prompt. It was a little different. Yes, I have read The Great Divorce as well as The Screwtape Letters. I liked the later so much, I read the short sequel called Screwtape proposes a toast too.

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  5. Thank you for sharing your lovely photos, Robbie. What a beautiful building! And your A L’Arora reminded me of something I bookmarked on Netflix, and then you mentioned that it’s a book by Judy Bloom – I will check both out. Your one-sided conversation with God touched me, especially the lines:

    ‘Today, I hope to find a dawning of acceptance
    Which will lead me out of the awful darkness’.

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      1. Glad to hear that, Robbie. Committing feelings to a poem or discovering or clarifying them makes the outcome so much more real…

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  9. This is a wonderful poem Robbie. You express all the emotions many of us feel. As division grows and politics and money rule, we wonder what can be done to change it all. It all begins with me… one person at a time. Very well written, Robbie.

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  14. Robbie – this is an excellent “doors” post. What a stark difference between Norwegian churches, which are typically simple and understated in design, characterized by wooden structures and minimal decoration, and their Italian counterparts. Isn’t it wonderful that we can appreciate a diversity of architecture and art.

    Are you there, God? A very insightful poem! The question of God’s existence is deeply profound and evokes a wide range of emotions and thoughts in individuals across different cultures and beliefs.

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  23. I love the church. The door is very narrow! That must have helped to keep the cold out. Do you know if the wood was originally dark? Did it turn that way through time? Your prayer poem is very lovely. It has so much emotion.

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  24. I love the church. The door is very narrow! That must have helped to keep the cold out. Do you know if the wood was originally dark? Did it turn that way through time? Your prayer poem is very lovely. It has so much emotion.

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  26. The church is an amazing structure, Robbie. I love your photos. I think the light is perfect. However, the highlight of this post is your poem. It is beautiful and it seems like a necessary plea that all mankind should be asking. We could all benefit by knowing “what’s causing another’s pain.”

    I hope you have a lovely weekend.

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  30. {{{HUGS}}} Robbie, I sincerely hope you can find a way to get a bit of respite from your caregiver role. You really need it. Is there a way you could hire a nurse or aide to step in for respite, even once a week for a few hours? Your caring nature comes through always in your writing, and unkindnesses upon you must hurt so much more 😦

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  32. Ah, a different dawning. yes – the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But as Jean-Paul Sartre once quipped, “hell is other people” just when we think we’re doing good, other’s respond negatively.

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  33. I don’t know where to start, Robbie. The photos of the stave churches are gorgeous, and of the dawn’s early light. And between these, your poem leading from the questioning anguish of the heart to the dawning hope in God’s certain help and provision. I love how you used direct address to order the structure and progression of ideas in such a touching way, making it all the more immediate and powerful. I pray for your peace and strength in Him as you serve those in need of your assistance, despite the obstacles, emotional and otherwise, thrown in your way. May God bless and keep you even as He provides for you. The joy of the Lord is your strength. 💖

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