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After our summer break, we’re beginning again, beginning afresh, like a new dawn perhaps. Unsurprisingly that first light is the subject of many poems, and Campbell McGrath’s eponymous pithy 3 liner made me smile:

5am: the frogs
ask what is it, what is it?
It is what it is.

Whilst Louise Glück makes her Dawn a very intimate and personal moment:-

…They’ve  just met, now
they’re sleeping near an open window.

Partly to wake them, to assure them
that what they remember of  the night is correct,
now light needs to enter the room,

also to show them the context in which this occurred…

And in the final stanza of September Is, something begins to dawn on Mary Jo Bang:-

Memory is deeply not alive; it’s a mock-up
And this renders it hateful. Yet, it is not a fiction,
Is a truth, indeed a sad and monstrous truth.
I was assigned to you, together we were
A beautiful and melancholic picture.
This last picture is the realization
Of the overwhelming moment
In which the acute eye perceives you as a now
That is over. A now that is fixed
In the swept past.

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

Useful Links:
A L’ Arora
More Dawn poetry

So once you have posted your poem according to the guidelines above, do add it to Mr Linky below then go visiting and reading other contributors as that is half the fun of our dVerse gatherings.

[N.B. Mr Linky closes Saturday 3 p.m. EST but Kim’s Poetics tribute to Sarah Connor remains open for a further 2 weeks]