John-Ward Leighton

Photo ©2006 by John-Ward LeightonJohn 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
- 03:17 hrs – Coffee And Home Made Porn
- 03:43 Hrs. In The A.M.
- 04:54 hrs And A Melancholy Tune
- 22:06 Hrs
- 23-Hour Day
- 23:04 Hrs
- A Clean White Page of a Day
- A Coffee Time Requiem
- A Day Like Any Other
- A Different Kind of Blue
- A Fly on the Wall
- A Fool For Love
- A Good Last Line
- A Hard Rain Is a Fallin’
- A Kite Eating Tree
- A Long Time Dead
- A Poem For Joe
- A Poem For The Sake Of a Poem
- A Poem Waiting
- A Sound Track Of Memories
- A Street with No Soul
- A Trip to the Library and a Pizza Run
- A Walk With The Fishes
- Abbey Dawn Morning
- Absurdity
- Acid Belches
- Addicted or Afflicted
- After Glow
- Afterglow
- Afternoon Cool
- Aggravated
- All Fools Day
- All Fools Day, 2012
- All My Best Lines Have Been Wasted
- Almost Snowy Sunday
- Alone
- Alone, But Why?
- A.M.
- Ambient Sound
- An Al Jazeera Morning
- An Old Hank Williams’ Song
- An Uncertain Step Into The Future
- And So It Goes
- And The Word Is
- Angel of the Toilet
- Another Can’t Sleep Night
- Another Can’t Sleep Night
- Another Day
- Another Gray Day
- Another Ten Siren Night: 23:51 Hrs
- Anthropomorphic
- Art on Art
- Artefacts
- Assassins
- Awake With All The Crazies
- August
- Azure, Orinoco, Xanadu
- Back In The Day
- Back Issues
- Bad To Worse
- Bagels And Cream Cheese
- Because It’s Snowing
- Because It Feels Good
- Before The Line Is Lost
- Belle of the Ball
- Beyond Any Words
- Beyond Reason
- Bike
- Bird Lives
- Bitter As Yesterday’s Coffee
- Bizarre
- Black Dog
- Black, White and Blues: Solo Photographic Exhibition Fund Raiser
- Blah!
- Blank White Page
- Bliss
- Blog’s Last Meal
- Bopping With JJ
- Brain Changer
- Brick Em Dano
- Broke
- Bucket Oh So Sweet
- Buddha
- Buddha at Heartbreak and Pain
- Buffalo Chips
- Bullet Proof
- Burma Shave
- Burn Out
- Bus Stop
- But I Still Can’t Believe It
- Cacophony
- Call the Doctor
- Can’t Sleep
- Can’t Sleep
- Can’t Think Of a Name For It
- Can’t Think Of a Title Right Now
- Captured Lines
- Carry On
- Casualties (Requiem for Four Fine Young Men)
- Catastrophe
- Caught Between a Smile and the Hard Place
- Celtic Music on the Sound Track
- Chill Off My Shoulders
- Chin Music: 03:09 hours
- China Town Mirror
- Cincinnati Taxi
- Classical
- Clip Clop of Her Flip Flops
- Clutter
- Cockeyed
- Coffee at the Vag
- Coffee Ville
- Cold Comfort on a –2°C Winter Day
- Collision
- Coming Down
- Coming Of Age
- Communication
- Composition
- Concern or Fear
- Concrete Pillow
- Confessional Hot Chocolate
- Cool Dawn In Spring
- Coyote Running
- Crack Dance And Other Observations
- Crank Poet
- Crossed Leg
- Cyberspace
- Damn! Can’t Sleep Again
- Damn, It’s Raining Again
- Dance Zone
- Dancing With Danger
- Dancing With Maya
- Dangerous
- Dave Brubeck
- Daydreaming
- Dead
- Dead Man’s Light
- Dead Zone
- Dead Zone
- Death By Papa Burger And Fries
- Death In The Afternoon
- Delirium at Noon
- Deliberate
- Depression
- Digging
- Digital
- Dinner Party: The Dream
- Dirty Laundry
- Doing My Thing
- Doing the Right Thing
- Dominant Species
- Don’t Die Before You Are Dead
- Don’t Let The Bastards Grind You Down
- Doppler Effect
- Dream Nineteen
- Dream Sixteen
- Dreaming With My Eyes Open
- Dreams of Susan Sontag
- Dreamscape
- Drifted Away Into Oblivion
- Drive By Lunch
- Dropped Off
- Drowning in the Clash?
- Drunk on the Funk
- Drunks and Poets Never Get the Night Off
- Dry Well
- DTs
- Early Morning Flatulence
- Easter Sunday Rain
- Echoes in an Empty Head
- Eighteen Gigabytes
- Empathy
- Endings
- Error 99 (The Poem)
- Eternal Mystery
- Evacuate
- Excuses
- Facebook Crashed Today
- Fade To Black
- Falling
- Famous Sirens Scream
- Fat Chance: That Idle Thief
- Fate
- Feeding The Poet’s Brain
- Filling In Time
- Finally Free
- Fire Fighters Parade
- Five Days Until “Buy Nothing” Day
- Five O’clock Poems
- Flying Rats
- Footprints
- Footsteps
- Forget
- Forgotten Line
- Found Wanting
- Four Gun Coffee Break
- Four O’clock Blues
- Four O’clock Blues
- Four Sirens And Borrowed Images
- Fractured
- Fragments
- Freedom
- Friday, Thank the Gods
- Friends
- Friends, Who Knew?
- From A Forty-Sixty Day To A Fifty-Fifty Night
- From Last To First
- From The Edge of Sleep
- Frustrated
- Full Gray
- Gastown Curmudgeon Society Lid
- Getting Lucky, Bum Wad And Nose Mining
- Ghosts
- Gibberish At 2:30 In The Morning
- Gibberish On The Sound Track
- Gimme Shelter
- Ginsberg’s Melody
- Go Figure
- Good Bye Tam
- Good Bye To Our Youth – Good Bye To Your Shinning Truth
- Good Friday Indeed
- Goodbye and God Bless
- Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti
- Granville Street Project
- Greed Is the Only Creed
- Green Onions
- Grey Day
- Grey Monday
- Grief
- Haiku
- Hallucinate
- Happiness Is A Child’s Balloon
- Happy Monday
- Have
- He Won’t Pass This Way Again
- Hell In A Hand Basket
- Hello Tam
- Her Name
- Herky Jerky Man
- His Mother’s Eyes
- His Poems of the Past
- Hold Back the Dark
- Home
- Home Town
- Hood.”
- Hopeless, Hopeless, Hopeless
- Horse Shit
- Hot Dog Lunch and Dozing In the Sun
- Hot Pursuit
- How Far Is It To Happy?
- How Many Batteries from Thunder Bay to Vancouver? (Chapter 5)
- Hubris
- Hungry For A Voice
- Hypnotized
- I Don’t Know What to Say
- I Dreamed About Time
- I Shudder At the Clutter
- I Was Awakened By This Poem
- I Wonder How Many Drunks Can Read This?
- Idle No More
- I’m Having Trouble Dying
- I’m In A Rat Faced Mood Today
- Image In A Dirty Mirror
- Images
- Imagining His Own Death
- In A New York Frame Of Mind
- In A Spider Web Of Memory
- In Memory Of Johnny “De”
- In My Own World
- In the Early A.M.
- In The Here And Now
- In The Liars’ Echo Chamber
- In The Nine O’Clock Hour
- In The Stream
- In The Tunes Of Anarchy
- In The Year Of The Rabbit
- Infinity
- Inspiration
- Interiors
- Interruptions
- 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
- Into Another World
- Into The Abyss Of Forever
- It Ain’t Rocket Science
- It Would Be Funny If It Wasn’t So True
- It’s 7:30 a.m.
- It’s A Bach Kind Of Day
- It’s About Time
- It’s Always Raining Somewhere
- It’s An Ordinary Day
- Its Own Sweet Home
- It’s Quiet
- It’s Raining
- It’s Snowing
- It’s The 3rd Already
- It’s Time To Make The Bed
- I’ve Asked Death Up
- I’ve Made It
- Ized
- Jack And Terrizita Are In Brazil
- Jazz In The Morning
- Jealousy
- Jobs I Hate
- Journal Entry
- Joy
- Joy
- Just Before I Awoke
- Just Before The Music Comes Crashing In
- Just Imagined Poetry
- Just Sitting There
- La Maya Peut-il Sourtir Pour Jouer? (Can Maya Come Out To Play?)
- Lapses In Your Synapses
- Late Night, Early Morning
- Laughter
- Lazy
- Lazy Me
- Lead Balloons
- Legend
- Lethargy
- Let’s Dance
- Levels
- Life and Dreams
- Light Fantastic
- Light Fantastic and The Lady Laughed
- Light Rain
- Lines Of Escape
- Listening For the Silence
- Listening To Euro Trash Will Do That to You
- Listening To the Honky Tonk
- Listening To The Rolling Stones
- Little Bobby Zimmerman
- Little Flickers
- Little Known Poet To Being Pop Star
- Long Pieces
- Losers, Boozers, Drug Addicts, Lunatics and Trash
- Losses
- Losses
- Lost
- Lost
- Lost And Found
- Lost Days
- Lost Dreams in a Quarter Moon
- Lost In Yesterday
- Lost Lines
- Love in My Kenny Cup
- Lovers Between Hard Covers
- Love’s Fire
- Lucky
- Lying
- Memories of Time and Place
- Memory
- Midnight Ugly
- Mindless In The Morning
- Mister Chrome Dome
- Money For Nothing
- Monique’s Dance
- Montreal Moon
- Mourning: A Good Bye For Joe Bageant
- Murphy
- Music From Another Time
- My Best Christmas Ever
- My Birthday Girl
- My End Of The World Poem
- My Hood
- My Muse
- My Ode To The First Cup Of Coffee
- My Perfect Moment
- Mysteries In The Murky Water Puzzles In Our Murky Mind
- National Poetry Day
- Never
- New Digs – The Poem
- New Karma
- Nice And Easy In The Big Easy
- Nineteen Years
- No Dreams
- No Shortage
- Noise
- Noise
- Not to Worry
- Nothing Concentrates The Mind
- Nothing Works
- November In The Rain
- Now Look What You Started
- Oblivion Is The Only Shelter
- Observation
- Obsession
- OD Fairy
- OD Train
- Odds And Ends
- Ode to a Fiery Toad
- Old Coat
- Old Media
- Old Poems, Old Friends, Old Tunes
- Old Song
- Old Time Rock And Roll
- Olympic Hangover
- On And On
- On the Road to Nirvana
- On The Streets Of Glass
- One of Those Days
- One Thousand Steps
- Opportunity
- Other Poets’ Lines
- Other Poets’ Lines
- Our Imagination Trapped In The Past
- Our Lives Are like the Wind
- Out In the Hood for a Walk
- Out Of The Fog
- Overdrawn At The Word Bank
- Pain
- Partially Cloudy
- Pete Mitchell Died Today
- Pick Up Blues
- Place
- Places to Be, And Places to See
- Plastic
- Poem Dreaming
- Poem for Heather
- Poet In The Corner
- Poem To Go
- Poetry And Dreams
- Poetry Reading
- Power
- Priming The Pump
- Promised Poem
- Promises
- Promises, Promises, Promises!
- Protest
- Puddles
- Purple Kind Of Day
- Racing On The Sea Of Words
- Rage
- Raggedy Ass Blues
- Rain
- Rain At Heartbreak And Pain
- Rain, Rain, Rain
- Rainy Day Blues
- Rainy Day Saturday
- Random
- Random, Abandon
- Random Bit Generator
- Random Trajectory
- Rant
- Rant Lebendy Seven
- Razor Wire Heart
- Read
- Read All the Poetry
- Reflection
- Reflections At 3 A.M.
- Reflections In The Rain
- Reflections: “Now”
- Reflections on a “Salty Tongue”
- Regrets ~ On All Fools Day
- Relics of The Past
- Remembering Hank
- Remembering Kim
- Requiem Blues: Index
- Requiem For A Very Dear Friend
- Requiem for Al
- Requiem for Bill
- Requiem for Hank
- Requiem for Irving
- Requiem For Johnny De
- Requiem for Peete
- Requiem For Sister Charlotte
- Restless
- Retro Days
- Return Of The Ghetto Blaster
- Rhapsody In Red
- Rich Guy Side of Cordova Street
- Right Brain
- Ringing In Your Ear
- Roam
- Rock And Roll in My Bones
- Rolling Stones At Four
- Rude Lines for Rude Times
- Run On Poem… Chapter 1
- Run On Poem… Chapter 2
- Running Man
- Rust You Can Trust
- Salad Saturday
- Sally Ann Chic
- Same Time, Same Place
- Sanctuary
- Saturday is Dead, Long Live Sunday
- Saturday Morning
- Saving a Line
- Say What?
- Scream
- Scream
- Searching The Files
- Second Beach
- Self
- Self
- Sensation
- Seventy-Five
- Seventy-One
- Sharpies and Skid Marks
- She Had To Be In Other Places
- Shine On You Crazy Diamond
- Short Shadows Of Spring
- Signposts
- Silence of the Page
- Silly Little Screen
- Simplicity
- Simplify, Simplify, Simplify
- Sing For Me
- Singers in the Alley
- Sitting In The Coffee Shop
- Sitting In The Cool
- Situation
- Six Weird Things to Tell
- Skating
- Sleep At Last
- Sleepless
- Sleepless In Vancouver
- Sleeps Two
- Smart Ass
- Smokers’ Hell Has Frozen Over
- Sneezing On A Wet Sunday
- So Far… So Good
- so small
- So What
- Softly In A Dream
- Soldiers of the Heart
- Solitude
- Solitude
- Solstice
- Some Fool Singing in the Street
- Some Lines
- Some More Lines
- Somehow Somewhere
- Something For Sunday
- Something Old, Something New, Something Awful, Something True
- Somewhere I’ve Lost It
- Somewhere Not Here
- Sometimes I Don’t Like Myself
- Songs From Another Time
- Speaking In Tongues
- Speculate
- Spring
- Spring Is Sprung
- Spring Is Sprung
- Squinty Eyed
- Stagger Lee
- Stairwell Poems (The Series)
- Stairwell Poems: Cover Page
- Stairwell Poem #1
- Stairwell Poem #2
- Stairwell Poem #3
- Stairwell Poem #4
- Stairwell Poem #5
- Stairwell Poem #6
- Stairwell Poem #7
- Stairwell Poem #8
- Stairwell Poem #9
- Stairwell Poem #10
- Stairwell Poem #11
- Stairwell Poem #12
- Stairwell Poem #13
- Stairwell Poem #14
- Stairwell Poem #15
- Stairwell Poem #16
- Stairwell Poem #17
- Stairwell Poem #18
- Stairwell Poem #19
- Stairwell Poems: Back Cover
- Standing
- Starting In the Middle
- State Of Confusion
- Steakhouse
- Steal, Shoot, Deal: Requiem for a Junkie
- Stories From The Past
- Storm
- Strange Places
- Stream
- Stream Of Consciousness
- Street Singer
- Stuck In The Middle
- Stuck in This Dream
- Studio Back Door
- Stupid
- Suck The Blood From Stones
- Sucking The Oxygen Out Of The Room
- Sun, Sunny Day
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday
- Sunday Morning
- Sunday Morning
- Sunday Morning
- Sunday Morning Symmetry
- Sunny Day
- Sunny Day Blues
- Sunny Saturday
- Surfacing
- Surreal
- Surreal Goodbye
- Surreal Tuesday
- Surrender
- Sweet Hereafter Hereafter
- Sweet Horn
- Take the Long Way Home
- Talking to His Pocket
- Tattered Clips Of The Past
- Tease
- Temporary
- Ten-Siren Confusion
- Test Flight
- Testing
- That Have-A-Coffee Blues
- That Is Why I Write
- The Absolute And The Divine
- The Anatomy Of Grief
- The Arc of the Diver
- The Best Place in the World
- The Blackness Of A Winter Dawn
- The Blues Today
- The Boss
- The Buddha at Hastings and Main
- The Chump Change of Dreamers
- The Clouds In My Mind
- The Dance Of The One Woman Flash Mob
- The Day I Died
- The Endless Puzzle of Random Change
- The Everything Café
- The Evidence of My Guilt
- The Final Getaway
- The Future
- The Game
- The Girl With Eloquent Hands
- The Glove
- The Headache Runny Nose Rant
- The Heebie Jeebie Crank Dance
- The Hive
- The Hole In My Socks
- The Journey
- The Lady Laughs
- The Levelling of Smut
- The Moon Saw Me Home (2010)
- The Moon Saw Me Home (2012)
- The Music Gonna Catch You
- The Olympic Feel-Good Pooper Is Gone
- The Original Rock That Was Rolled
- The Outrage Called Enbridge
- The Page
- The Pizza Joint Just Got Robbed Blues
- The Poetry Bug Done Bit Me
- The Politics of Boredom
- The Power of “Thank You”
- The Queen Of My Heart
- The Razors Edge Of Chaos
- The Restless Muse
- The Ride
- The River Of Time
- The Road
- The Shadow of a Doubt
- The Stranger
- The Tyranny Of Gray
- The Tyranny of Reason
- The White Noise Roar
- The Wind
- The Wizard
- The Wounded
- The Wreckage Of Old Seventy-Six
- The Writer
- The Yale Project
- Then Spit Them Out
- Things
- Things
- Things That Annoy
- Thirty Six LaSalle
- This Waltz
- Three Quarter Moon in a Two Bit Town
- Thursday’s
- Time And Space
- Time Warp
- To Whom It May Concern,
- Today
- Today, Nothing Will Deter Me
- Too Damn Hot For Headphones
- Too Much Information
- Too, Too, Too
- Trajectory
- Trance
- Trance
- Trash
- Truth And Beauty
- Tuesday Funk
- Tuesday’s Hangover
- Turn Down The Gain
- Twenty-Three Hour Day
- Two Best Christmases
- Two Degrees Celsius
- Two-Page Poem
- Two Year Old Files
- Waiting
- Waiting
- Waiting For Godot
- Waiting For The Bungggg
- Waiting For the Kettle to Boil
- Waiting For The Revolution
- Waiting For This Shit Hawk To Fly
- Wake Up Call
- Wandering
- Wayfaring Stranger
- We Are So Easily Played
- We Are Never Alone
- We Are Not Young Anymore
- We Are The Stories
- We Have Our Doubts
- Wednesday At Coffee Time
- Wednesday Dance
- Weight Loss Program
- Welcome to Planet John
- Welded To My Chair
- Welfare Wednesday
- Wet Coast Chic
- What Ever
- What Side Of The Moon?
- What Was I Thinking?
- Whatever Works
- What’s Happening?
- What’s Next?
- What’s Next?
- When Did Time Start?
- Where Did It All Go?
- Where Do The Children Play
- Where Do We Go When We Reach the End?
- Where God Lives
- Where Have The Words Gone
- Whipped Cream
- Whispered In the Wind
- White Hot Blues
- White Noise
- Who Am I Talking To?
- Who Knows Where This Is Coming From?
- Whose Poetry Is This Anyway
- Why?
- Why Now
- Weird In Black And White
- Willie Dixon Is Dead
- Willie Dixon is Dead
- Window Of Time
- Windows of Time
- Wish You Were Here
- Winter Blahs
- With A Pot to Piss In
- Without Ever Touching Face
- Words Are Lost
- Words Coming
- Worn Out
- Wrapped in Dreams
- W,T,F!