
Photo ©2006 by John-Ward LeightonJohn-Ward Leighton
“JW”
John has been a poet since he was eight years old but it was not something he revealed to the “macho” world of the soldier. Most of the poetry he wrote in the service had to wait until he attained the rank of Corporal in the Canadian Army and had one of the coveted end rooms in the barracks but he didn’t actually write any poetry about service life until some 35 years after leaving the service.
Index of Club Writings
- A Coffee Time Requiem
- A Poem Waiting
- Acid Belches
- Addicted or Afflicted
- Aggravated
- All Fools Day
- All My Best Lines Have Been Wasted
- Alone
- Alone, But Why?
- An Old Hank Williams’ Song
- And So It Goes
- And The Word Is
- Angel of the Toilet
- Anthropomorphic
- Art on Art
- Because It’s Snowing
- Beyond Any Words
- Black, White and Blues: Solo Photographic Exhibition Fund Raiser
- Bliss
- Bullet Proof
- Burma Shave
- Cacophony
- Call the Doctor
- Can’t Sleep
- Can’t Think of a Title Tight Now
- Caught Between a Smile and the Hard Place
- Celtic Music on the Sound Track
- Cincinnati Taxi
- Classical
- Coming Down
- Concern or Fear
- Concrete Pillow
- Confessional Hot Chocolate
- Coyote Running
- Crank Poet
- Crossed Leg
- Dance Zone
- Dancing With Danger
- Dangerous
- Daydreaming
- Dead
- Dead Man’s Light
- Dead Zone
- Deliberate
- Doing My Thing
- Doing the Right Thing
- Dreamscape
- Drifted Away Into Oblivion
- Drowning in the Clash?
- Drunks and Poets Never Get the Night Off
- Dry Well
- He Won’t Pass This Way Again
- Hello Tam
- Her Name
- Herky Jerky Man
- His Mother’s Eyes
- His Poems of the Past
- Hold Back the Dark
- Home
- Hood.”
- Horse Shit
- How Far Is It To Happy?
- Hypnotized
- I Was Awakened By This Poem
- I’m In A Rat Faced Mood Today
- Images
- Imagining His Own Death
- In the Early A.M.
- Intersection
- Hearbreak and Pain ~ Hastings and Main
- Karma ~ Cambie at Water
- The End ~ Columbia at Powell
- Cussed Out ~ Cross Roads
- When Your Tank Runs Dry ~ Cambie at Cordova
- Rain ~ Abbott at Water
- Alone ~ Alexander at Columbia
- Ciao ~ Powell at Main
- Old Chinatown ~ Pender at Carrall
- Quandary ~ Alexander at Main
- Stunned ~ Pender at Main
- Late Night Radio ~ Cordova at Columbia
- In Haitus ~ Cordova at Main
- Conclusion ~ Hastings at Abbot
- It’s Raining
- It’s Snowing
- I’ve Asked Death Up
- La Maya Peut-il Sourtir Pour Jouer? (Can Maya Come Out To Play?)
- Lazy
- Levels
- Life and Dreams
- Light Fantastic and The Lady Laughed
- Light Fantastic
- Little Bobby Zimmerman
- Little Flickers
- Losers, Boozers, Drug Addicts, Lunatics and Trash
- Losses
- Lost Dreams in a Quarter Moon
- Lost Lines
- Lovers Between Hard Covers
- Love’s Fire
- Lying
- Memories of Time and Place
- Mister Chrome Dome
- Monique’s Dance
- Murphy
- My Birthday Girl
- My Ode To The First Cup Of Coffee
- Observation
- Obsession
- OD Fairy
- Ode to a Fiery Toad
- Old Song
- On the Road to Nirvana
- One Night Stand
- Our Lives Are like the Wind
- Random Bit Generator
- Random Trajectory
- Reflection
- Reflections: “Now”
- Requiem Blues: Index
- Requiem for Bill
- Requiem for Irving
- Requiem for Peete
- Restless
- Rich Guy Side of Cordova Street
- Ringing In Your Ear
- Run On Poem… Chapter 1
- Run On Poem… Chapter 2
- Sanctuary
- Saturday is Dead, Long Live Sunday
- Saturday Morning
- Scream
- Seventy-One
- She Had To Be In Other Places
- Short Shadows Of Spring
- Singers in the Alley
- Six Weird Things to Tell
- Smokers’ Hell Has Frozen Over
- So, What’s Going on?
- Soldiers of the Heart
- Solitude
- Some Fool Singing in the Street
- Something Old, Something New, Something Awful, Something True
- Speculate
- Spring
- Stairwell Poems (The Series)
- Steakhouse
- Stories From The Past
- Strange Places
- Stuck in This Dream
- Sun, Sunny Day
- Surreal Goodbye
- Surrender
- Sweet Hereafter Hereafter
- Sweet Horn
- Talking to His Pocket
- Test Flight
- The Arc of the Diver
- The Best Place in the World
- The Blues Today
- The Day I Died
- The Girl With Eloquent Hands
- The Heebie Jeebie Crank Dance
- The Lady Laughs
- The Levelling of Smut
- The Pizza Hut Just Got Robbed Blues
- The Poetry Bug Done Bit Me
- The Politics of Boredom
- The Ride
- The Tyranny of Reason
- The Writer
- Thirty Six LaSalle
- Three Quarter Moon in a Two Bit Town
- To Whom It May Concern,
- Trance
- Two Year Old Files
- Wandering
- We Are The Stories
- We Have Our Doubts
- Weight Loss Program
- Welcome to Planet John
- What Ever
- What Was I Thinking?
- What’s Next?
- Where Do We Go When We Reach the End?
- Where God Lives
- Whipped Cream
- Whispered In the Wind
- White Hot Blues
- White Noise
- Willy Dixon is Dead
- Windows of Time
- Without Ever Touching Face
- Words Coming
- Wrapped in Dreams