This collection by poet E. Ash Ley focuses on themes reflecting the urban dystopia of our modern era; Feelings of… Read more Poetry collection – Isolation Syndrome And Connectivity
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley focuses on themes reflecting the urban dystopia of our modern era; Feelings of… Read more Poetry collection – Isolation Syndrome And Connectivity
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley explores the nature of experiences within the spectrum of borderline personality, bipolar, and… Read more Poetry Collection – Walking The Borderline
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley focuses on the concepts of “fight or flight”, as felt when exposed to… Read more Poetry Collection – Taking Flight
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley focuses on themes of humanity and the soul, the biological mechanics of the… Read more Poetry Collection – Vital Machines
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley carries themes of growth, adaptation, and personal change throughout times of blessing and… Read more Poetry Collection – The Art Of Time
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley encompasses themes of connection through our shared experiences. We mark our histories across… Read more Poetry Collection – Roots Of The Union
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley explores the contradictions and connections of our emotional experiences, as well as concepts… Read more Poetry Collection – The Wavering Heart
This collection by poet E. Ash Ley explores aspects of religion, spiritualism, faith, and the power that these concepts can… Read more Poetry Collection – Of Faith And Power
2004-12-30 My calendar picks up the new year around October 23rd, 2003. The date that I finally got the courage… Read more Series – History of a Lost Girl – Part 1
– Amaryllis – We look back through the field at the paths we have made as we waded through the… Read more Prose – Amaryllis
– A Modern Babylon – I am the urban Moses,parting the sea of facesthat move before me,a traffic of bodiesthat… Read more Prose – A Modern Babylon
– Tides – I steady myself against the tide, against the pull of of a thousand hands grasping at me… Read more Prose – Tides
– Literary Event: Outer Haven V.19 – – Date: July 31 2025 – – Venue: Imperial Pub, Toronto – Works… Read more Video – Literary Event: Outer Haven V.19 – July 31, 2025
– Anhedonia – I pour my heart out to you as you’re laying on the bed next to me; loving… Read more Prose – Anhedonia
– The Crystalline Heart – He shows me faded photographs, poems and letters torn in half; lovers left behind in… Read more Prose – The Crystalline Heart
When He wakes, My Master makes the bed in which I will lay with my Lover. He bids me to… Read more Erotica – Metamoria
– The Hearts Withdrawal – You have broken through the walls of me, into the core of my self and… Read more Prose – The Hearts Withdrawal
– Rising of the Lights – Who will name our constellation when we become stardust again, stripped down into our… Read more Prose – Rising of the Lights
– The Curse of Being a Survivor – I exist in a state where home is not a place, but… Read more Prose – The Curse of Being a Survivor
– Through Childlike Eyes – When I was a child I saw the world through wider eyes, uncovered by the… Read more Prose – Through Childlike Eyes
– Unconditional – Love is merely a temporary condition, constructed by the position that we hold within another persons state… Read more Prose – Unconditional
The Tribe of Spiral; The Passing of the Torch Tonight was the night that everything changed; The night of the… Read more The Tribe of Spiral – The Passing of the Torch
The Tribe of Spiral; The Final Gathering – (The Gunthering) The day came when the most recent of our gathering… Read more The Tribe of Spiral – The Final Gathering
– Truth And Consequences – When the first thingthat you’ve ever been taughtis how to lie,you don’t knowwhat truth really… Read more Prose – Truth And Consequences
– Shrapnel in the Soul – The self indulgence of my harsher words has once again left us broken. Like… Read more Prose – Shrapnel in the Soul
– Literary Event: Word Garden – – Date: June, 9 2025 – – Venue: Bampot Teahouse – Works read: –… Read more Video – Literary Event: Word Garden – June, 9 2025
– Enabler – I suppose I must admit that I acted out of purpose when I taunted you as a… Read more Prose – Enabler
– The Mythical Earth Series – Nayad – The Water Lily Weeps – In the time before man knew the… Read more The Mythical Earth – Nayad
– Love in Liminality – I don’t know how not to be what you so often are to me, bound… Read more Prose – Love in Liminality
– Iridium – She closes herself beneath the lids, dancing to dreams that she will never live. And the softness… Read more Prose – Iridium
– Upon the Sea of Tears – Sadness is the saltiest of seas. I am swimming in the depth of… Read more Prose – Upon the Sea of Tears
– Scorched Earth – The ground on which I walk quivers with these doubtful reverberations, shaking my resolve and leaving… Read more Prose – Scorched Earth
– Vivianite – When you were cold and formless, a million years sleeping in someplace without feeling, hearing nothing but… Read more Prose – Vivianite
– The Wanting of a Man – There is nothing more dangerous than the wanting of a man, pushing back… Read more Prose – The Wanting of a Man
– The Ariadne Thread – I am entangled and entwined by the threads that lead me forward to my future,… Read more Prose – Ariadne Thread
– The Wings of Words – I used to run from the nightmares of my early life, deep into the… Read more Prose – The Wings of Words
– Literary Event: Paprika Festival Emerging Artists – – Date: May 15, 2025 – – Venue: Native Earth Performing Arts… Read more Video – Literary Event: Paprika Festival – May 15, 2025
– Radioactive Love – The feeling of your touch is like a stroke of uranium; A radioactive burning that I… Read more Prose – Radioactive Love
– The Stability of Conflict – There is a difference in the pattern where from resistance becomes rebellion. If you… Read more Prose – The Stability of Conflict
– Book launch; Paul Edward Costa, “Some half-human creature thing” – – Featured guest reader – – Date: May 5,… Read more Video – Literary Event: Paul Costa Book Launch – May 5, 2025 – Featured Reader
The Book of Endless Days explores the moments of our personal history seen as fragments of the infinite time line… Read more Poetry Collection – The Book Of Endless Days
– Rohypnotized – I take a step to find that I am falling… …Down the stairs, crashing to the floor,… Read more Prose – Rohypnotized
– Koi No Ike / ( Koi Pond ) – I am living in a gold fish bowl,with short span… Read more Prose – Koi No Ike (Koi Pond)
– The Urban Dream – Midnight on the downtown strip;I watch a painted paper crownblow in circles among the roadworks… Read more Prose – The Urban Dream
– Savage Hearts – With the nightlife crowd in a fervour and frenzy, our deeper revelations become too hasty, our… Read more Prose – Savage Hearts
– ParaMort – For the presence of my paramour, I am far less comfortable in closer spaces. The fractures in… Read more Prose – ParaMort
The Coda X Collective Compendium features the first ten collections by writer and poet E. Ash Ley. Each collection features… Read more Coda X – The Collective Compendium
Video reading of “The Living Earth” by E. Ash LeyAll content property of E. Ash Ley/Ely Reelay and Notorious Creations… Read more Video Prose – The Living Earth
– ParaMort – I am confined within the duress of making myself into the object of so many differing desires,… Read more Prose – ParaMort
– Anathema – You salt the earth such that nothing good shall ever grow again. Your silver tongue, though molded… Read more Prose – Anathema
– Damaged Reflections – There’s a splinter in me that sits just below the surface of my stability. I am… Read more Prose – Damaged Reflections
– Defensive marginalization – Tolerance of the individual identity is long dead. In its place now sits a code of… Read more Prose – Defensive marginalization
– Lost Moments – Last night, I walked with you through moments lost. My mind was clouded with the deluge… Read more Prose – Lost Moments
– The Longing – Time and again, it is the longing which draws me back to you. I wake in… Read more Prose – The Longing
– The Open Road – I am free from my darkest memories when flying on the wheels, when feeling the… Read more Prose – The Open Road
– Xenophon – When the fae come forward to sing their laments, we will come to know that our world… Read more Prose – Xenophon
– Literary Event: Outer Haven V.14 – – Date: February 27, 2025 – – Venue: Imperial Pub, Toronto – Works… Read more Video – Literary Event: Outer Haven V.14 – February 27, 2025
The Celestial Saga – The Phoenix Moon It was the Night of the Winter Solstice; the darkest, longest, coldest night… Read more The Celestial Saga – The Phoenix Moon
The Celestial Saga – Prologue; Aearth In the beginning, when the world was new, it was shaped into form by… Read more The Celestial Saga – Prologue; Aearth
– Moments of Truth – When you call out to me; “My Little One…” I remember those days when we… Read more Prose – Moments of Truth
– Afterthoughts of You – In the aftermath of you, I feel the need and wanting, ruined and reduced after… Read more Prose – Afterthoughts of You
– As We Live Earthbound – Time is made to be the most precious of all our mortal commodities; It… Read more Prose – As We Live Earthbound
– Better Days – The better days have often eluded me. I find myself a victim to my own sense… Read more Prose – Better Days
– Bridging Gaps – Years had gone by between the closeness of us. I was so very angry that you… Read more Prose – Bridging Gaps
– Buy Me Time – What to buy for the girl who has nothing, and wants only love? Buy me… Read more Prose – Buy Me Time
– Days Between – In the days between us, I begin to forget; The sound of your voice, the touch… Read more Prose – Days Between
– Deeper Waters – The waves of your ire wash over me in tides; Rising waters thrusting through a broken… Read more Prose – Deeper Waters
– Earthskin – I have beautiful memories of a world far away. A tropical paradise, bathed in blue and green… Read more Prose – Earthskin
– Gone Tomorrow – Moments of joy and faith shared with friends that we have loved, with friends that we… Read more Prose – Gone Tomorrow
– Hiraeth, and Hereafter – As a peasant and a pilgrim; My bones ache, fragile, frail, weary at every step… Read more Prose – Hiraeth, and Hereafter
– In Future Tensions – Forgive me dear heart, if I say too often now how much I love you;… Read more Prose – In Future Tensions
– In The Moonless Night – Star light, so bright; Moonless sky I dream tonight. I turn off all of… Read more Prose – In The Moonless Night
– Pieces of Me – I meet myself upon the open road, in smaller pieces never truly whole. Simple moments… Read more Prose – Pieces of Me
– RetroProgression – We are caught off our guard in a retrogressive drift, walking the right way on the wrong… Read more Prose – RetroProgression
– Riding in Cars with Boys – My sense of love and lusting is so often interconnected with my need… Read more Prose – Riding in Cars with Boys
– Soul in the Stone – I am hardened by a heart of stone. I strive so hard to retain… Read more Prose – Soul in the Stone
– StarDust – I hold a fallen star in an empty sky to mark the world I have left behind.… Read more Prose – StarDust
– The Art of Time – The sun is rising into my summer sky, led once more in light expanding… Read more Prose – The Art of Time
– The Living Earth – I dig the soils of the distant dead that grow again to feed the living… Read more Prose – The Living Earth
– The Lovely Spaces – I seek to walk in the uncluttered places, I seek to know the unremembered histories,… Read more Prose – The Lovely Spaces
– The Truth of Beauty – I look at my face reflected in the mirror. I am marred by scars.… Read more Prose – The Truth of Beauty
– The Unbreakable Walls – Such life and goodness has been lost to me, as those around me that I… Read more Prose – The Unbreakable Walls
– Tributaries – Sadness and pain have washed my endurance away. I am rain across a mirrored surface, scattered movement… Read more Prose – Tributaries
– Until My Hands Should Waver – As children, we are denied our thirst for knowledge, only able to feel… Read more Prose – Until My Hands Should Waver
– With Freedom From Wanting – Always afraid of wanting more, it is the absence of your longing which draws… Read more Prose – With Freedom From Wanting
– Colour and Greyscale – One by one the lights of the city come to life, growing brighter against the… Read more Prose – Colour and Greyscale
– Distant Cities – The city is dark and wet; A maelstrom of rain comes in steady sheets across the… Read more Prose – Distant Cities
– Equations of Desire – Time equals distance; An equation counted by the mathematics of love. This tactility brings more… Read more Prose – Equations of Desire
– Ex Machinette (The Marionette) – I am refining the resonance of my robotic emotions, polarizing the magnetic fluxes within the… Read more Prose – Ex Machinette (The Marionette)
– Intransigent – I find myself spiritually transient, emotionally intransigent, always moving between the most binary aspects of a greater… Read more Prose – Intransigent
– Life Machine – I am the mechanical animal; This is my fighting spirit, housed inside a frail and fatal… Read more Prose – Life Machine
– Obelisk – I spread myself into the emptiness of spaces, until I have become the space which I inhabit.… Read more Prose – Obelisk
– Raising Inertia – How tall do you have to be to ride the whirlwinds of the world? How heavy… Read more Prose – Raising Inertia
– Schema – In a world full of moving parts, we constantly strive to align with each other. We divide… Read more Prose – Schema
– S.O.N.E.T. – I am the cross talk through the aethernet in which you create your digital visions. Asynchronous network… Read more Prose – S.O.N.E.T.
– SoundGazer – I Inhale the noise; Don’t find me here. I seek my peace; To defy my fear. I’ve… Read more Prose – SoundGazer
– The Unreal Engine – I am the unreal engine; The object of your modern design. In these loading processes,… Read more Prose – The Unreal Engine
– Thermoluminescence – I am phosphor, fading in the sulphuric haze. I am living life by cosmic torchlight, irradiated and… Read more Prose – Thermoluminescence
– UltraLight – I dive into the glow of ultraviolet light,feel it splash back upon me like water.I am swimming… Read more Prose – UltraLight
– Variables in Hindsight – Questions > Conclusion These baseless equations form into a lifetime of academic destinations; Delusions of… Read more Prose – Variables in Hindsight