A Circle in Fourteen Lines

Intro

A Circle in Fourteen Lines combines two poetic forms with opposing instincts.

A sonnet unfolds across fourteen lines, building toward a turn that reframes what came before.

A monotetra relies on repetition, returning to its final line as a structural echo.

The poem is shaped by the pull between forward movement and circular return.

This piece was inspired by the writing prompt Emanation from the #BlueskyRelay account.

It rises slow beneath my skin,
a hush that waits to speak again,
a pulse that hums where I have been,
within it stirs, within it stirs.

The air remembers every sound,
a breath that shapes the walls around,
what slips the voice still can be found,
unbound it moves, unbound it moves.

Each thought becomes a quiet glow,
a heat I never choose to show,
it lingers long, then learns to go,
below it hums, below it hums.

What leaves me never quite departs,
it builds its home in other hearts.