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
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
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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