"Poet Without Pity, versifier Janet Leigh writes vivacious poetry on love and life"> <BODY TEXT="#FFFFFF" BGCOLOR="#008080" LINK="#3399FF"> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <a name="index_start"></a> Poet Without Pity Janet Leigh <img src="purp_bar.gif" border="0" height="17" width="886"> Offering to the Universe <marquee scrolldelay="60" scrollamount="2" style="font-family: Tempus Sans ITC;">Poetry Pics Wit Spit & Fire</marquee> <table id="table2" bgcolor="#336699" border="1" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td> </td> <td valign="top" width="256"> <a href="http://www.kahlil.org/">Kahlil Gibran</a> <a href="http://www.emilydickinson.org/">Emily Dickinson</a> <a href="http://www.levity.com/corduroy/parker.htm">Dorothy Parker</a> <a href="http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/">Van Morrison</a> <a href="http://www.bobdylan.com/moderntimes/home/main.html">Bob Dylan</a> <a href="http://www.mckuen.com/welcome.htm">Rod McKuen</a> <a href="http://www.browningguide.org/">Elizabeth Barrett Browning</a> </td> <td width="359"> <blockquote> <blockquote> <img src="star.gif" align="left" border="0" height="18" width="20"> </blockquote> </blockquote> <a href="../Old%20Inactive%20Files/JDBoa_1.htm"> <img src="jd_cafe.gif" align="bottom" border="0" height="232" width="170"></a> <blockquote> <a href="mailto:poeticjustice@mindspring.com">poeticjustice@mindspring.com</a> <img src="bluestar.gif" border="0" height="18" width="20"></blockquote> </td> <td valign="top" width="261"> <a href="http://www.okonlife.com/poems/index.htm">Omar Khayyam</a> <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/hi/littleprince/introduction.html"> Antoine De Saint-Exupery</a> <a href="http://home.att.net/%7Etennysonpoetry/ls.htm">Alfred, Lord Tennyson</a> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-dialogue-of-self-and-soul/"> William Butler Yeats</a> <a href="http://www.beckhamhouse.com/beckham_whyitisrighttowrite.pdf"> Why It Is Right To Write</a> <a href="http://www.poemhunter.com/poets/">Poem Hunter</a> <a href="http://dmoz.org/Arts/Writers_Resources/Poetry/">Writers Poetry Resources</a> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <a href="hyacinth.html"> <img id="img1" src="button29.jpg" alt="Hyacinth Bouquet" fp-style="fp-btn: Embossed Rectangle 7" fp-title="Hyacinth Bouquet" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button2A.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button29.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button2B.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img1',/*url*/'button2A.jpg')" border="0" height="22" width="110"></a> <a href="masks.html"> <img id="img2" src="button2C.jpg" alt="Many Masks" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img2',/*url*/'button2D.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img2',/*url*/'button2C.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img2',/*url*/'button2E.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img2',/*url*/'button2D.jpg')" fp-style="fp-btn: Embossed Rectangle 7" fp-title="Many Masks" border="0" height="22" width="110"></a> <a href="jest.html"> <img id="img3" src="button2F.jpg" alt="Jestku" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img3',/*url*/'button30.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img3',/*url*/'button2F.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img3',/*url*/'button31.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img3',/*url*/'button30.jpg')" fp-style="fp-btn: Embossed Rectangle 7" fp-title="Jestku" border="0" height="22" width="110"></a> <a href="blk.palette.html"> <img id="img4" src="button32.jpg" alt="Black Palette" onmouseover="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img4',/*url*/'button33.jpg')" onmouseout="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img4',/*url*/'button32.jpg')" onmousedown="FP_swapImg(1,0,/*id*/'img4',/*url*/'button34.jpg')" onmouseup="FP_swapImg(0,0,/*id*/'img4',/*url*/'button33.jpg')" fp-style="fp-btn: Embossed Rectangle 7" fp-title="Black Palette" border="0" height="22" width="110"></a> Welcome, I'm poet apprentice Janet Leigh, thanking you for visiting my site. What you'll find here is a collection of snapshot thoughts about life, inspiration, poems about love, and letting my Muse have its way with me. I wrote my first poem when I was about 9 years old. It must have impressed someone enough to heap praise on me with a palette knife because I haven't stopped writing since then. This website is my palette of insight. It seems the Almighty has always provided some heady thought to tease a word or two from me which spilled out on paper to the tune of my making. Many creative artists say music is the universal language. Having grown up around a musically-oriented family and a childhood soothed by nursery rhymes - somewhere along my time-line - this marriage of music and rhyme gave birth to a rhythmic hybrid which took hold of my very being. I began to express my music in verse. I'm a cerebral person by nature. I live in the "abstract" world of meditation and contemplation which lends itself to analyzing all things down to a gnat's eyeball. It's been said of me, I'm at the top of my game when arguing. Ha. T'is true; I'm never more precise than when I'm standing up for something I believe in wholeheartedly. So, during your visit here, it's prudent to remember, while I caress your mind with poetic ideations, that serious discussion is, ahem, my <a href="bert.ernie.html">forte.</a> Putting word-to-paper, poetry concerning life, with an irrepressible hand, I write on slips of paper, napkins, envelopes - anything to record my thoughts - on <a href="thingsthatmatter.htm">things that matter.</a> I can't remember a time when I wasn't writing or having fantastic dreams of <a href="flying.html">flying</a> (which I'll explain elsewhere). Poet Janet Leigh - has a nice ring to it - but it's really up to others to confer such a title - and I know it. Nevertheless, I've created this site; a compilation of vivacious verse; this is where I plan to bare my soul for all the world to see - warts and all. I plan on letting it all hang out here, so to speak. To put it another way, I've been called Sassy Lassy, bold JD Lady, saxy, sexy poet and heroic; one who versifies with wisdom sometimes topped off with the old rapier-twist poem ending, uses sexy innuendo, morphs haiku into jestku, who found her Muse, spoils her pets rotten, loves singers Eva Cassidy (please see my Eva Cassidy poem) and Van Morrison, a visionary who knows the Light but has held hands with despair, and plays air sex through poetry with the likes & licks of an Eric Clapton riff (poet displays wit..hee). Just as well, I can soothe your weary soul and help you see that you're not alone in loneliness as you seek serenity and tranquility in my compassionate insight. Is there such a thing as a poet without pity? You will see that I deal in poems for the human spirit.* <div align="justify"></div> My goal here is to demonstrate what we have in common in the way of feeling, passion, love, experience, and belief. We all struggle with burden, longing, loss, loneliness, and unrequited love. Indeed, I've had my share. I know joy, peace, comfort, compassion, love & happiness, too. Whenever life gets me down, I remember, I'm not alone in loneliness, when one door closes, another opens. It's good to make a bouquet with the flowers within reach. Caress my mind in poems on life, be compassionate, be witty, take lots of photos, give thanks for my fur-kids and remember the snake bites. Believe in the power of prayer and that every good gift comes from the Almighty One who wants only good for those who love Him. The world is made of many wonders such as yourself. This site is for you. <table style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;" align="left" bgcolor="#006699" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="136" width="75%"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="3" height="26" width="75%"> Persons, Places & Things </td> <td rowspan="6" height="134" valign="top" width="25%"> Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. ---Abraham Lincoln </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.antiochonline.com">Antioch Chamber Ensemble</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.braham.com">Braham</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.buyamerican.com/">Buy American!</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.cfif.org/">Center for Individual Freedom</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.emilydickinson.org/"> Emily Dickinson</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="evapage.htm">Eva Cassidy</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.jimcarreyonline.com">Funniest Man Alive</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.gardening123.com">Gardening, Anyone?</a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.2asisters.org/">Hey, Sistas! </a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.marshallhall.org/">Marshall Hall </a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://joemccarthy.blogdrive.com/comments?id=1"> Joe Was Right! </a></td> <td height="19" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.brahambank.com/aboutus.asp">Oscar A. Olson, Sr.</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="25" width="25%"> <a href="poet_sites.htm" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Poetry Sites </a></td> <td height="25" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.talkaboutsleep.com/">Talk About Sleep</a></td> <td height="25" width="25%"> <a href="http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/">Van Morrison</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table> --Janet Leigh Earth House in the Woods Along the Shenandoah, Virginia 9 February 1997 You may also find me on my blog at <a href="http://commontater.wordpress.com/"> PopUpCommontater</a> <blockquote> </blockquote> <table id="table1" border="1" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td bgcolor="#006699" height="28"> My Confession: Friends and foes alike affirm I live with my head in the <a href="clouds.html">clouds</a>. Perhaps this is where I get my bird's-eye view of Life and Other-Worldliness.......</td> <td bgcolor="#006699" height="28" valign="top" width="43%"> Poetmeister ..on the road to Parnassus <a href="http://janetleigh.wordpress.com/">***** C O M E B L O G W I T H M E *****</a></td> </tr> </tbody></table>  <center><a href="http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/guest.pl?91326::0"> </a> <div align="center">*All the above is embellished to feed the imagination of the Search Engine Machination</div><a href="http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/guest.pl?91326::0">Sign my Visitor Log</a> | <a href="http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?91326::0">View my Visitors</a> Website best viewed using Internet Explorer</center>  <blockquote> <div align="center"><a href="http://www.copyscape.com/"><img src="http://banners.copyscape.com/images/cs-bl-234x16.gif" alt="Page copy protected against web site content infringement by Copyscape" title="Do not copy content from the page. Plagiarism will be detected by Copyscape." border="0" height="16" width="234"></a></div> <img src="purp_bar.gif" border="0" height="17" width="886"> </blockquote> Copyright © 1997-2009 by Janet Leigh. All rights reserved. The poems and photographs on this website are for your enjoyment; photographs and poems, in whole or in part, may not be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the author. Thank you kindly for respecting my copy rights. <script type="text/javascript"> var sc_project=3049585; var sc_invisible=0; var sc_partition=33; var sc_security="7101dbd0"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter_xhtml.js"></script><noscript class="noscript-show">