I understand this poem as a celebration of love that allows us to reconnect to our souls and the divine. The lovers have been in your house for many generations, so they have a permanence that exceeds a human life. Their "intense love" radiates throughout the house, but it is when you are ...

Did he dream, was it she who went galloping past and bent down the fern broke open the grass and printed the mud with the iron and the gold that he nailed to her feet when he was the lord The iron and gold nailed to the hooves by the lord that the mare prints like a seal in the mud reminds me of the...

In the three poems "Lucky Night" and "Drank A Lot" in "The Flame" and in "The Great Divide" from "The Book of Longing", Leonard Cohen describes the meeting, separation and merging with his twin flame, the person incarnated on earth who has the same s...

In the poem, Suzanne Takes You Down, from Cohen's collection, Parasites of Heaven (1966), the penultimate line of the last chorus is:
and you‘re sure that she can find you

Leonard Cohen has often sung this line when he sang Suzanne in concert: And you know she will find you

A weekend on your lips A lifetime in your eyes Slow With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world. We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye. Stories of the st...

Merci beaucoup! I have found the additional verse on this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170201164642if_/http://www.leonardcohen-prologues.com/ Vienna 07/03/85 Additional stanza Now the solitudes vary They go from nothing to loud If you're buying lonely Pick the one with the crowd You can get s...

Yes, of course it was not in 1976 but in 1985. But thanks for the indication of the song in the musical.
In this video Leonard Cohen sings an unpublished verse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2JtLuXS94

Does anyone have the text and possibly the title of the collection of the source poem of the additional verses of the song "The Law" that Leonard Cohen sang in 1976 at the Montreux Festival?

Babylon has different meanings in the poems of LC. Babylon is the place where the soul is incarnated. Our world. Where the connection to the divine can be lost. « And I did forget My holy song: And I had no strength In Babylon. » (By the Rivers Dark), It is also the sacred prostitute of the temples ...

Hello,

I have a question about the image of the cut lip that comes back in "the rivers dark" but also in "Blue alert" in another context.
Is it a biblical punishment?

Dear amarante, I think you are right. I even think that LC has met his twin soul and separated from it. Maybe there was even a reconciliation and separation again as it is often the case with twin flames. There are several clues in his poems and songs that make me think so. He describes the transcen...