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Ebony and Aura

November 8, 2009
By LincolnGirl BRONZE, Portland, Oregon
LincolnGirl BRONZE, Portland, Oregon
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Favorite Quote:
The greatest leason in life to learn, is to love, and be loved in return.


Ebony is beauty, Aura the same.
Light is not darkness; with gray in between.
This blind prejudice brings infernal shame.

Multifariousness, you should not tame.
Talent of the heart is, often unseen.
Ebony is beauty, Aura the same.

Fissure in character, you can not blame.
Obstinate intellect, viewed as obscene.
Blind prejudice brings infernal shame.

Tranquility is what you can not claim;
Until thoughts of all races are serene.
Ebony is beauty, Aura the same.

Gray, the edge of dark and light; as dawn came.
Ebony and Aura, cursed with routine.
Blind prejudice brings infernal shame.

Supremacy in mind is what we aim;
Paragon, is really just what we mean.
Ebony is beauty, Aura the same.
Blind prejudice, brings infernal shame.

The author's comments:
Form used is the Villanelle.

The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tersest followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tersest are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as:
A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.

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