Written for:  dVerse Poets Pub  (posted by Peter)
Meeting The Bar:  Coming full circle

"Circles appear in nature: birth-death-rebirth; seed-plant-fruit-seed; day-night-day. Botanical, seasonal and astronomical, circles are everywhere (though if you look closer you’ll find change, a planet wobbles in its orbit around a star, the seasons shift over aeons). And as poets, we love these circular tropes; the seasons become metaphors for our own journey through life, love, loss or our daily commute."  

So, to start with a definition:

            "a circular poem is one which starts in one place,
            then journeys away from that place and then circles back
            to the beginning."

"The pantoum is another repeating form. Composed of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza, it’s described as the slowest poetical form, taking four steps forward and two steps back."


Enter dawn in rosy glow
when love is newly sweet,
from fresh earth wildflowers grow,
young hearts have a quickened beat.

When love is newly sweet
afternoon comes slipping in
young hearts, a quickened beat
until more slowly do they spin.

Afternoon comes slipping in.
Instantly evening arrives,
until more slowly do they spin,
those beats aged now with time.

Instantly evening arrives.
Dance becomes a wind-down waltz,
those beats aged now with time.
With dawn, we find our memories halt.

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