‘Love’s Radiant Play’ Cento
by Kathleen Gunton
Music’s only secret is silence. It’s time
Weeping as you go on in, through
Energy, the speed of light, the universe
Love’s radiant play and refraction
It’s beautiful to watch
It seemed I was the dream
A life without a body
To go up to heaven, to rise
Come to this, all of it—everything
Is love the reward, or the test itself
It almost seems as though I could remember
Like a story that makes us come true
To be a better man than I was then
Redefining Love
That forgives
All the way home . . .
Source: Search Party: Collected Poems by William Matthews.
Kathleen Gunton is a poet/photographer who believes one art feeds another. Her words and images often appear in the same journal. Over fifty of her cento poems have appeared in publications such as Amethyst Review, Commonweal, The Cresset, Friends Journal, and Rhino—to name a few.
