Roberta Writes – d’Verse Poetics Fated and Thursday Doors #poetry #photography

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Merril has asked poets to write about fate. This is a concept that intrigues me greatly. I have no answers for you, but I have some questions for your consideration. You can join in here: https://dversepoets.com/2025/04/22/poetics-fated/

Science or dice roll

Is it just chance or

Are spirits allocated?

To new fetuses

How is a young life’s future

Determined at the onset?

“Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.” Les Brown

It is all science?

Destiny not a concept

To which blame can be assigned

Do we forge our life’s pathways

All choices on our own heads?

Thursday Doors

I haven’t posted for Thursday Doors for a few weeks. I didn’t feel like thinking about past holidays when I firstly had surgery looming and then was recovering from a four-hour surgery that involved more than I had expected. I am more or less okay now, so I feel ready to revisit our trip to a private game reserve in Kwa-Zulu Natal in early January 2025.

You can join in Thursday Doors here: https://nofacilities.com/2025/04/24/mt-washington-pa-2/

First the doors:

Picture caption: Doors into the Lodge lounge
Picture caption: Doors into the Lodge bar

And now for the babies we saw:

Picture caption: A tiny impala – so cute!
Picture giraffe: A giraffe so young it is still ginger with fluffy ossicones
Picture caption: A white rhino calf only a few days old – the youngest I’ve seen.
Picture caption: Wildebeest with two youngsters.
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  9. Robbie thank you for sharing your lovely photographs and your poems.
    I think we could puzzle our brains all day with “why”, but never really find the answer.
    All we can do is try our best with the cards we were given.
    I am glad you are feeling better.

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  20. WOW! the images you shared are beyond amazing! “do we forge our life’s pathways” a question for all of time … wishing you tip-top health ASAP!

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  24. Love the questions and thoughts stirred up with your post here. Interesting side note: 35 years ago, Les Brown and I went to the same church. I got to sit next to his twin brother Wesley and listen to Les practice his motivational speaking on those of us who would show up on Wednesday nights to be thoroughly caught up in the fire with which he delivered his messages…

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  32. Seeing so many young animals made me smile, Robbie. Thanks so much!

    Sometimes I think the concept of fate is just an excuse for not trying. Yet at other times I look around at my circumstances and think that no matter what I might have done differently it was bound to turn out the same. With both things in mind, I guess it’s nice to have fate handy to take the blame. 🙈🙉🙊. Hugs.

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    1. Hi Teagan, some things are outside our control. It’s like Michael’s health issues. Nothing I did could have prevented them but the actions I took kept him alive and now he is doing so much better 💗. I think we have to understand the balance.

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  36. I think there’s something about those animals that, at least in part, answers your questions. We are part of something bigger, and the animals teach us that. Our lives unfold because of or in spite of our own choices, and we can but do our best and hope we don’t hurt others. The animals remind us. Glad you’re doing better. Surgery is a real shock to our systems.

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