Leslie Silton

Leslie’s career started in Greenwich Village, (New York City) in 1964, when she began showing up at Le Metro – a coffee house also frequented by beat poet Alan Ginsberg, who asked her to contribute a page of poems for his irregularly issued "Ninth Street Poets" magazine. Since then she has participated in many readings and open mics over the past 30-plus years both here in the USA and Paris, France where she  attended American Center for Students and Artists.

She has self-published 3 chapbooks and her poetry has been carried on many Internet publications as well as read on radio and recorded on CD collections.   Leslie is also a visual artist and her art has been purchased as commissions and for private collections in Boston, New York, Texas, Los Angeles, Paris, Geneva, Monaco.  She can be contacted at:

leslie-artist-poet@prodigy.net


Poem included in the Special Edition Havaleena Filters:

Early March

Clouds hang in the sky.
How will butterflies sleep
when children wave their arms?

 

Cool Breeze 

after the rain ...
spangled with salt,
giddy with excitement,
the cool breeze pauses
on Santa Monica beach
and contemplates its future:
ready for anything -
even Hawaii, Australia
or Africa


Dawn

Silver winter light 
shedding steely
its hurried instance
on the window sill:
a silent peal
cathedral and holy
before the yet unsubstantial promise
of another sun rising.



Poem

no one in love
ever loved just one person.

the whole world is set ablaze
by just one truth.

love is all the truth.  




Leslie Silton

Leslie Silton