Aurora’s poetry achieves a strikingly coherent blend of structure, content and music.
Her poems are delightful. Aurora’s poetry plays with the senses of the reader. Thus, one can find the more “audible” poems, such as Seaside Serenade; or the more “visible” poems, such as Sonnet Slumber.

Although clearly melancholic in nature, her poems exude, here and there, a subtle sense of humour, as in The Ballad of the Battle of Rhyme versus Free Verse. Indeed, both the title and the idea of this poem are singularly original.

There is a tenderness in her poems, which manifests itself throughout, particularly in If I Dared.

A common feature of most of her poems is the manner by which she concludes them. Take, for instance, Midnight Wishful Thinking. The end is delightful in its linguistic beauty and conceptual clarity; like a puzzle, which is elegantly solved. It is as though Aurora closes a circle, as in I am Restless as the Ocean, with an explanation for the sentence, that remains with the reader as a query till the clarifying end, ‘I am restless as the ocean, I am troubled as the sea.’

Last, but not least, I wish to stress Things I Want to Save. Marvellous in the way images are depicted as these unfold to create a soothing, romantic atmosphere of poetic bliss.

By Yoav J. Tenembaum

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