Leo Stone

I’m an overthinker and worry about most things even when I know I shouldn’t.

I believe in love above everything else and the power and magic that it possesses.

I’ve always classed myself as an ‘optimistic pessimist’ – I always prepare for the worst to happen but secretly maintain the hope that everything will be OK.

My poetry is written, in the main, using very ordinary, straightforward words. I want the meaning and feeling of each poem to be readily accessible. I don’t want anyone to struggle over ‘what is this poem trying to say to me?’, I want them to understand it there and then in simple terms that they can relate to.

My poems help me to work through some of the things that I’ve encountered, and I hope that they may also help others in some way.

Let’s face it, we all need some help here and there, even if we don’t like to admit it.