Call Me Les

Joined June 2021

98 stories

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Aspiring etymologist and hopeless addict of children's fiction.

If I can't liberally overuse adverbs and alliteration, I'm out!

Website: lesleyleatherdale.ca

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The Ballad of a Pinecone. Top Story - March 2024.
Do not mistake a forest for a place of peace. It is a microcosm of the tenacity and aggression of life, an arms race of leaves and stems in a conquest for sunlight,
By Call Me Les12 days ago in Poets
For a Poet Laureate
If your love for me was made of stars, I'd have ten galaxies to my name and counting. If your love for me was an ocean, It would be unending and unfathomable.
By Call Me Les11 months ago in Poets
The Gentlest of Sweet Pains
Summer's sorrow and winter's treasure, You are the catalyst of change. The stoic exhale of autumn, Come to kiss our petals again.
By Call Me Lesabout a year ago in Poets
Common is not commonest
Common glory - true; Tho vivid colour inflame, Not mundane is blue.
By Call Me Lesabout a year ago in Poets
Faded Septembers. Top Story - October 2024.
I can't remember the brand you smoked, but I prefer to imagine you now, wherever you are, clutching a pipe, sweet smoke curling slowly around and wafting toward me as you reload your sharp wit.
By Call Me Lesabout a year ago in Poets
It's Gneiss to Meet You
* Born in dark decay. Rise! mica microcosm, Covet sun no more. * ~Haiku written for the "High-Ku" Challenge on Vocal Media.
By Call Me Les3 years ago in Poets
Marching Home
* After the parade, no company do I keep. When all is drear and dark and bleak, And out the window the moon is dull,
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets
Greenwaves Forever
From halls long lost Annals and paths The channels of my mind Steps tread softly In the frozen tundra bleak Your last words repeated
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets
Dear Stud Muffin
We met in a café. It was love at first sight, But I tried to hold in my delight. Instead I ordered a latte. * From the across the room,
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets
Touching Snow
This is either the start of or the end of my next story. I haven't yet decided. * You were born to be cold The shadow floats behind
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets
Today You Were Not Here
I thought I knew just what you did, To keep me safe from hate, To make the waters calm, A never ending clean slate. * But today you were not here.
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets
An Earthy Forest Green
If you'd had an accident, I would have noticed. If you'd been unwell, I would have cared. You were not invisible. You were my everyday everything.
By Call Me Les4 years ago in Poets