Anyone who has lived a while has been touched by change, and the speed and scope of it. I captured in the picture above a good example. In downtown Minneapolis, next to the modern Guthrie Theater, and with Luxury Condominiums all around, sits the Mill City Museum. It is the ruins of a once prominent stone edifice from the world's largest flour mill owned by Cadawallander C. Washburn, built in 1874 and destroyed by a flour explosion in 1879. The Mill industry, with General Mills and Pillsbury, had a large impact in building Minneapolis. The broken stone walls and huge millstones are there on display. In my own personal experience my company Unisys started the computer industry, became Serry Univac, Sperry Rand, Unisys, Paramax, Loral, and finally Lockheed Martin, who shut our site down and laid off the existing 2000 employees that once numbered 10,000 in the Twin Cities. The Ford Plant that made Ford Rangers, was closed and demolished. Northwest Airlines, formed in Minnesota was bought by Delta and the headquarters moved. Brick and mortar, even history meant nothing.

This poem is an A L'Arora Poem.
The A L'Arora, a form created by Laura Lamarca. The A L'Arora is named after her as "La" is her signature. "Aurora" is Italian and means "dawn" - "Arora" is derived from this. It 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. This format combines both the freedom of a Free Verse poem, but adds a tiny bit of structure by stipulating the number of lines, and fixing a rhyme pairing at lines 6 and 8 of each stanza. So you have a hybrid here of both Free Verse and structured rhyming verse.

This picture was taken by the author himself on February 20, 2016.

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