A L'Arora

The A L'Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca, consists of 8-lined stanzas. The rhyme scheme for this form is a, b, c, d, e, f, g, f with no syllable count per line. The minimum length for the poem is 4 stanzas with no maximum length stipulation. The A L'Arora is named after Laura Lamarca as "La" is her signature. "Aurora" is Italian and means "dawn" - "Arora" is derived from this. This form is dedicated to Chad Edwards.

Rhyme Scheme Re-Stated: xxxxxa xa, where "x" = no rhyme

Example:

To Eternity

She had harboured her conscience
as saddened seas set sail
and a hail of happiness
harpooned her harmed heart;
yet the start of her story
cast its line long ago...

when blame built a boat
to float to and fro.

She had waded through waters
towards distant dreams,
as sky's streams shone strong
for promise to grow,
and tide told of legends,
of pirates and gold...

of adventures and romance
and treasures to behold.

Soft breeze blew her homewards
towards challenge and smile,
over miles of surrender--
befriending love's sighs.
Undercurrents urged notions
to traverse oceans...and land

as anchors raised rainbows
and sorrows turned to sand.

She harnessed the beauty
that greeted her ashore,
as core swelled with longing
to sing songs...and survive.
And she lived with pride's palms
for forever and a day...

past's anchor has long rusted--
eroded echoes...stripped away.

Copyright © 2009 Laura Lamarca

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My Example Poem

Simple, Not Simplistic    (A L'Arora)

My mentor mentioned making my attempts

at penning poetry as speaking to a friend.

The grandiose perhaps will awe a few,

The academics, whose investment

in obcsure even

may seem propitious.

The common man will find

pretention not auspicious.

Your poems should be fun or run with one

to ideas delible in reader's mind

making them now indelible in his own

Arcadia.

Eschew condemnations, and benisons

but be exponent of provoking thought.

Let poetry maraud through newest  notions

and through concepts the Ancients may be taught.

Ignorance is pandemic

and helped along

by dogma,

the quintessential foe of reason.

If agencies are instru mental

in dumbing people down. . .

We poets and the world-wide net

is where new hope is found.

Confounding folks

won't do the trick

Didactic rants

shall also fail,

but creative and probing poems

when free of condescension,

may lead the Exodus from apathy

and get the world's attention.

(c) Lawrencealot - Nov 2013

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