Paradiso: The Empowered Vision Brightness beyond all brilliance, rising At speeds impossible to guess … Within this hypervelocity, Appears, as though unmasked, a blazing — White .. like comets alighting in nests Of meadow-flower infinity Whose colour and scent, whose twirling power Becomes speed’s stillness, the source of all Light rays and every radiance Reflected back from every flower. In this, like plunged in a waterfall Of pounding baptism, I danced Until my blinded eyes were stretched Out to a vision which encompassed The whole of space-time and beyond, And there I witnessed .. but words, snatched From that light-torrent, are mere rumpus, Cracked babble, stones placed onto a pond And meant to float, but sinking .. I saw, Light’s music and speed’s stillness flower In marriages of mathematical law, My vision becoming somehow - empowered .. I saw - though can’t tell what I saw ...
Leo Aylen: Born KwaZulu, South Africa, 9 poetry collections (latest The Day The Grass Came “a triumph” Melvyn Bragg; “Stupendous” Simon Callow); 5 international prizes; 100 poems in anthologies, 50 in U.S.A. poetry journals, 100 broadcast. Recently published in Century; 100 Major Modern Poets; Agenda; Able Muse; Amethyst Review; Grand Little Things; Westward Quarterly; The Road Not Taken; Better Than Starbucks; Orchards Poetry Journal; Scarlet Leaf Review; Blue Unicorn; Sparks of Calliope; The Hypertexts.
Amethyst Review 