Thanks for this, Lightning. He was a man of many pairts.
Duncan
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- Fri Dec 09, 2016 12:26 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Ode to Leonard Cohen from a fellow Zen Monk
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- Fri Dec 02, 2016 12:16 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: Poem based on a quote by Leonard Cohen
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Poem based on a quote by Leonard Cohen
I've just had a poem published based on a quote by Leonard Cohen: http://www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk/235melanch.html I wrote the first draft over five years ago, then put it aside and forgot about it. I discovered it again by chance about 50 days ago. It will be the first in a sequence of four called ...
- Sat Dec 26, 2015 4:35 pm
- Forum: Comments & Questions
- Topic: Hello, I'm new to this forum... (introducing yourselves)
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Re: Hello, I'm new to this forum... (introducing yourselves)
Thanks, Cate! Pop lyrics are much more easily accessible than poems, and yet they are a good way in to appreciating poetry. There are a number of songs on my blog too. I think my song "Way Up the Ladder of Love" is quite Cohenesque (at the end of https://gists.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/an-a...
- Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:19 am
- Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
- Topic: a bit of new poetry "That one cold morning"
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Re: a bit of new poetry "That one cold morning"
This is very Cohenesque, and I like it. It reminds me a bit of "Samson in New Orleans". I hope you find someone to put music to it.
Duncan
Duncan
- Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:54 pm
- Forum: Comments & Questions
- Topic: Hello, I'm new to this forum... (introducing yourselves)
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Re: Hello, I'm new to this forum... (introducing yourselves)
Hey, everyone! I’m from Scotland, born 1962. I met a Dane and moved to Denmark in 1986. In my late teens I listened to a lot of Leonard Cohen, as well as Dire Straits and The Cure. On the beach of a Greek island one night in July 1981 I was enchanted by someone singing “Suzanne” on guitar. In the ne...