Poetry

Over the bridge
of still waters
the fountains
Have now ceased
And the mallards
Sit meditative
on mirrored water
Among reeds
And yellow
floating leaves.

And the waters of
Reconciliation
Lapping,
With their voices, all
Come out to meet me

Pebbles
and coloured
Stones mixed
with driftwood and debris,
the remnants of a multicoloured Life,
Grey now,
greet me as
tenant stands,
crosses
Self by the sea,
That leads
to the portals
Of a blue infinity.

Listen to the Silence

Posted on December 31, 2015 by pwchaltas

I cannot tell you what to say I cannot tell you what to do tomorrow or today. I can only ask you to be silent

to listen to the voice,

and to what it has to say.

There is a darkness that no soul can imagine, the blackness of the soul not talking to itself or to its source

so let’s just listen.

Where to get: Free Verse in Useless Times

Posted on December 28, 2015 by pwchaltas

Just a little shameless self promotion : As you may or may not know, I have been working on publishing my first poetry book and it has now hit the “e-shelves” -“Free Verse in Useless Times”
I really hope you will buy and enjoy it – the poetry in the collection been described by one reviewer as ” lovely and sometimes profound” it’s $3.99 US and if you do, please also consider leaving a review. Both would mean a lot to me. You can purchase it through iBooks, Indigo and Chapters Kobo or on Smashwords, the self-publishing site that I have used. Here are the links:
***Please feel free to pass this on to any family and any friends that you may think of that may enjoy contemporary poetry

Apple’s iBooks – https://itun.es/ca/X_5S_.l

Indigo/Chapters Kobo – https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/free-verse-in-useless-times/9780995003309-item.html

Smashwords -https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/600267

Thanks for considering and again, best of the season and a very happy New Year!

Thank you for your support !

Peter

Night Travel

Posted on December 27, 2015 by pwchaltas

The night drifts by

Seconds heavy with subterfuge,

but the night sky is clear

And the lights are bright,

more foot-candle strong

than before,

aging, revealing

all around them.

Only a silence

Remains to be broken

with the innocent laughter

of a child,

as I continue

travel through the misted

landscapes of the mind.

Questions Questions

Posted on December 21, 2015 by pwchaltas

Why hunger,

Why existential pain?

Is the current truth a fake ?

Should we empathize with pigs ?

Why are cell phones

named after nature’s fruit ?

And who does the child

as an adult look

for ?

What is it about nature

and the lake?

Pre-order your copy of Free Verse in Useless Times

Posted on December 19, 2015 by pwchaltas

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/600267

Blue Clouded Streak

Posted on December 17, 2015 by pwchaltas

Blue Clouded Streak

There is a blue
Clouded streak
In the night sky
As if moon
was shining
through,
But there is
no moon.
There is a blue
Clouded streak
In the night sky,
As if blue day was
covered by
A velvet curtain;
dark ultra blue.
There is a blue
Parted stream in
The night sky
As the day
and its aspirations
Die quietly
Now covered
By purpled
darkness where
Only a solitary pair
Of wings is heard fluttering.

Beach on Infinity

Image

There’s a secret beach I travel to ..

Beach on Infinity

And we walked along

the guarded path

where the pygmy loves

could not tread,

to the sands of the sacred beach

on a sea of infinity,

to that place in the sand

where the setting sun

froze and

stood still as a pearl.

And our dreams crystallized

into cast

grains of salt

all around us.

There with our feet

grounded In the sand

of a cosmos

of a million realities,

Our love became

a piercing of the heart.

Our tears became bubbles

that rose upwards

and burst into the air

that was thick

with the moment

of a golden light,

and with a fleeting

despair,

quickly melting

into a night of stars.

From “Free Verse in Useless Times” by PWChaltas