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John W. Leys

Indie Poet & Writer
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Stoicism

Are You Free?

I’m not free, She said, I can’t fly free Among the clouds. Gravity is oppressing me And holding […]

July 25, 2019 Poetry

Are You Free? @ FVR

My newest poem, Are You Free?, Is now available at the Free Verse Revolution blog: Are You Free? […]

June 15, 2019 Poetry

The Rolling River

Bob Dylan and the ghost of Leonard Cohen Sitting shivah on short stools Yarmulke pinned to gray curly […]

April 12, 2018 Poetry

Looking for Truth

You can look in your books, Old and new, Of beginnings and births, Journeys and exiles, Looking for […]

December 27, 2017 Poetry

Chaos and Cure

Chaos around you: Be in the world, not of it. Chaos within you: Be still, breath, Be present […]

October 24, 2017 Poetry

Zeno of Citium

A Cyprian merchant ship Wrecked on Grecian shores. Everything lost. Discovered the wisdom of a dead man In […]

October 23, 2017 Poetry

Perspective

“Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say” – Marcus Aurelius, translated […]

September 23, 2017 Poetry

The Tao of λόγος

Please note, word “Logos” in the poem below is not the plural of the English word “logo,” rather […]

May 1, 2017 Poetry

Dreams of Poems Already Written

Allen was in Asgard reciting America and Singing the Buddhist Bible Blues for All-Father Odin While Bobby and Baldr compared […]

April 3, 2017 Poetry

All the World’s a Stage

The curtain begins to fall, Darkness is all you see, “But I haven’t completed five acts,” You protest, […]

December 8, 2016 Poetry

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