This Time the Page is WaitingPoetry

Poetry
Peter W. Chaltas

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​This time the page is
waiting for the poem.
No need for the lines
to force their way
on to it ,
and into to it.
There's no violation
here this time,
only a white willingness
of the page
to be inscribed
with the blackest letters,
as permanent and
Immutable
as a ratio
of golden means,
that is
pricked and inked
into the page
divinely
as it
lays spread out alone.
 
Today the poet
is an ink artist,
in a skin parlour
with a willing client,
who asks for the inscription
to be made,
regardless of the pain.
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Peter W. Chaltas is an entrepreneurial poet and has been writing poetry since the age of 16 when his father passed away. He was educated at Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and majored in Literature and Philosophy. In his fifties, he became an online twitter poet. His work has since been published in online publications, as well as on Pwchaltas.com. Over the years, he has written 14 collections relating to art, poetry, creativity, love, loss, death, and nature. These unpublished poems were meditations and therapy written for himself. He is now publishing his works, and reciting in public.
Two of his poems will be published in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts, Vol.5, No.2, August 2017.

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