... & Javier Colis - Ballad of the Absent Mare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHwMtjQtAE ...

LisaLCFan wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 6:58 am
Not sure if I am the forum member you are thinking of, but I resemble that remark regarding Ballad of the Absent Mare!

Ha! Now that makes two of you Coincidentally, the same song but I was actually thinking of Vickie

Well, these types of lists must be 'flavour of the ... resemble that remark regarding Ballad of the Absent Mare! :D ...I suppose any mention of Leonard ...

Well, these types of lists must be 'flavour of the ... slipping into a familiar pop-ballad melody as he (maybe facetiously) ... is a winner. “Ballad of the Absent Mare” (from Recent Songs, 1979) Recent ...

Eylul, as for the reference to crickets, Cohen seemed to have had some sort of fascination with those insects, ... his heart with their song ~ Ballad of the Absent Mare And the crickets are playing ...

… Can anyone think of any references to insects in Cohen's songs?… Off the top of my head: Song “Listen ... to the butterfly . Song “Ballad of the Absent Mare”, lyric, And the crickets are ...

I absolutely love this song!

Another Ballad of the Absent Mare fan here! My search yielded even more results that mention this song -- 462 posts!

https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/searc ... +%2Babsent

It's a great song -- I love it!

Thanks, Hartmut! I guess I was just looking for you in the wrong fora.
Now thanks to you I’ll have plenty to ready on one of my favorites LC songs.
Best,

How did you get that impression?

There are dozens of us!

https://www.leonardcohenforum.com/searc ... bsent+mare

... and I’m an absolute fan of LC. My favorite songs are ... But a Personal favorite is Ballad, which I found out browsing ... have very strong views on the ever lasting dilemma of ... to see that Ballad of the absent mare is, it seems, no one’s favorite. ...

... it she who went galloping past and bent down the fern broke open the grass and printed the mud ... gold nailed to the hooves by the lord that the mare prints like a seal in the mud reminds me of the iron spear and the golden cup presented in the Grail ...

"I remember when I moved in you the Holy Dove was moving too" and every breath we took (on the high plateau) ...was halleluiah ! halleluiah hal le luuuu uuu iah... ;-) 8) "Oh the world is sweet The world is wide And she's there ...

... "... I remember that I could not bear the pyrotechnics of human existence: how life ignited for an instant, burst ... they are... But let's segue back to the Buddha in the ballad of rider bull Dove ... ...all bull-fighters will ...

Ha! Hi B4 Somehow Leonard's Absent Mare song analysis took me to ... "empty space" The Hebrew Bible via Job also ... Maybe it was a certain sort of hope? Hope for eternal transience...Oneness ... sings of in this song, The Ballad of the absent mare". ...