Very clever and very effective....not sure about the "waver" though? A real Cohenist poem!!

Read it fast, havent even thought about it.....its good though very good...angry and good.

Well Violet I think its bloody brilliant!!!! Yes....its wonderful! Wow...those images are flying around in my head and touching my soul so lightly with their thread of gossamer! Its beautiful.

I agree with Lizzie ....the "width" was especially impactful(!!) but the "baronies" struck me as a tad pretentious...unless I have interpreted it incorrectly?

Awww Violet.....all over with Georges then?!!!

hi Manna....have you read any of Eckhart Tolle? theres a good test where it asks you to "watch yourself thinking" then think of a word...most people cant think of a thing because the mind is actually watching the thinking!! It sure shuts the mind up!

Thanks Lizzy for those excerpts you posted, I found them really interesting.

What a fantastic thread. I think we all read his stuff at different times in our lives so retain the impression it had on us at that time. For myself I dont feel his work has got better over time(but then I was younger). Have actually just posted about how two words of his can so move me! All his ea...

And I bet no one ....just no one ..... gets a thrill out of reading ...."do you?" and "knew you"?? . I think its incredible! They are so resonant so wonderful...I am too enraptured to mess about with Bible study! Oh and before you write me off, going back to UrPal and the diamond...

I totally agree with UrPal.... Cohen was seeped in the Bible...and when one writes ...on a true level.....all kinds of things pop out of ones head and heart ....for my part they dont always make sense ....but they somehow seem relevant to what one is writing at the time...so I guess trying to analys...

vashti wrote:Samson and Delilah, but I don't know about the kitchen chair.

I know about the kitchen chair!!! Lol

Jeepers Creepers!! Feel like Liza Doolittle.. but you made me smile! :D Was really messing...just talking to myself really... so to get a name mixed up with Religion and Sex....erm but hey....cuckold...I like that line because it 's got my name in it..so maybe we can put names with religion and sex ...

Guess its all in the interpretation, always thought As the Mist was about a woman...only now do I consider it possible might be a man.

Oh and before anyone replies with all the Judiasm stuff concerning Norman...I am not a Jew nor do I like Judism or Roman Catholicisim for that matter ....I just dont like the name Norman!! " I learnt to write what might be read by one like me" I guess the latter bit didnt have to be Jewish?

Thank the Lord this site is so complicated you can get lost!! Why do you all have to call him Leonard? First name terms? Do you know him? I hate the name Leonard, and his second name Norman is even worse... for me its gotta be Cohen!! Oh and a great summing up from the book "Cohen" (wow ! ...