HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!!!

Bobbie · Post by **Bobbie** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:39 pm

Thank you for all the fine and beautiful friends you've given me, Leonard. Now that's the real deal.

Happy Milestone Birthday...

Your ol' friend.
Bobbie C

Makera · Post by **Makera** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 11:47 pm

Dear Mr Cohen ~

Bless you sir, for keeping your promise (in the spirit of Psalm 89)

Now at seventy ~
how d'you deal with envy
one of precious few?

Many Happy Returns of the Day, Mr Cohen!

@->-->---

~ Gennelle
(Makera/Maatkara)

hub's · Post by **hub's** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:08 am

thank you so very much
hubert

heatherly · Post by **heatherly** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:42 am

Happiest of Birthdays, Dear Leonard!

And thank you so for all you have added to my life. I can't imagine what it would have been like without you- my inspiration, comfort, and friend.

All my love to you and your family on this and every day,
Heather Salisbury

Broken Hill · Post by **Broken Hill** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:18 am

Happy Birthday Leonard
All the best to you from Iceland,
Ólafur

songul · Post by **songul** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:18 am

Dear L.C.

May all your -good-dreams come true...at 70

Nice yillara!

Songul

kkurzweil · Post by **kkurzweil** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:53 am

With deep appreciation!
Happy Birthday Leonard

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 1:56 am

To Field Commander COHEN ~

Leonard ~ In acknowledgement of your lifelong intrigue with military structure:

With old battle scars and healing; and decorated with commendations, high honours, and medals ~ at 69 years, 365 days, and one wake-up, you've turned 70

!

I salute you, your hard-won peace, and your re-enlistment in Life's Army

, as our highly-esteemed, Honourary Ambassador-at-Large. We need you.

Yes, Sir!!! We need you. Yes, SIR!!!

Salutations.

Love,
Lizzy
[Click-click ~ Pivot ~ Depart]

Iubita · Post by **Iubita** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:01 am

Dear Leonard,

There are not too many friends as you...almost three years you are always with me... in pain and joy...passing with me through many different life events...as my inspiration and a person with whom I can share all my feelings...
also because of you I found the Forum and so many other friends...
thank you very much, Leonard, for being so supportive and faithful to us - the B'ful Losers...
With the whole my Love and Heart, I wish you

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR LEONARD

May you have many blessing years ahead...

Love, Iubita

diamondsinthemine · Post by **diamondsinthemine** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:07 am

Happy Birthday Leonard - Keep rolling on!

and thanks for all the wonderful words and music over the years,

Klaus Offermann · Post by **Klaus Offermann** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:22 am

Dear Leonard,

Today we celebrate the day you were born and I wish you wine, woman and song. More precisely a case of Chateau Latour 1982, a "Sister of Mercy" as well as the music of Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, George Jones, Jennifer Warnes and Chopin.

And may a burning violin accompany readings of Yeats, Farid ud-Din' Attar and Frederico Garcia Lorca. Poems such as:

New Songs

The afternoon says: 'I thirst for a shadow!'
The moon says: "I thirst for bright stars!'
The crystal fountain asks for lips,
and the wind for sighs.

A song of tomorrow that will agitate
the tranquil waters
of the future. And will fill with hope
its ripples and its slime.

A resplendent and tempered song,
rich with thought,
pure of regrets or anguish,
and pure of fanciful dreams.

Song without lyrical flesh
filling silence with laughs
(a flight of blinded pigeons
thrown against the unknown).

A song reaching the spirit of things,
and the spirit of the winds,
a song finally resting in the joy
of the eternal heart.

Frederico Garcia Lorca

As Lorca's "arches of Elvira" seduced you and drew you into his world, so your messages dispatched from the album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" first touched me.

Messages about finding "heroes in the seaweed" "among the garbage and the flowers"; about her hair "weaving on a loom of smoke and gold and breathing" and about the infant of the "age of lust" being "hauled in with his cord...like a kite" "..one eye filled with blueprints one eye filled with
night."

So thank you Field Commander Cohen for accepting Lorca's invitation and for dispatching to your less courageous troops, regular reports from the interior landscape.

Thanks for getting out there on that limb, knowing that "love is strong as gravity and every one must fall". Thanks for that "song of tomorrow" that did "agitate the tranquil waters" lapping at the "Western Wall" and also for that other song that "filled it with hope" of democracy sailing.

Thanks for your magical mystery tours ... musical Magic was Alive on those special evenings at the Orpheum and the Queen E. Thanks for the smiles evoked by "Memories" in "I Am A Hotel" and thanks for being the reason one of your angels touched down in Red Deer. It gave a beautiful loser a chance salute you over drinks with Perla.

Most of all thank you for the song sung from the "broken hill" ...your "resplendent" blessing of a song that "reaches the spirit of things". The one that gentles my atheist soul.

Your old songs and books have been a part of my life since1968 when the principal's eldest daughter came to visit from Toronto and brought me the gift of your songs. Yet still "I thirst for new songs".

So this evening, deep in a lush green valley of the BC hinterland, I will celebrate the happy day of your birth with a bottle of red wine and a stack of your songs and videos. I will have one arm around the love and content of my life and the other raised in our toast to the "Book of Learning", to "Dear Heather" and most of all to you.

Happy Birthday, Leonard

Remi · Post by **Remi** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 2:26 am

Happy Birthday, Mr. Cohen. Thank you for years of enjoyment.

Mark J · Post by **Mark J** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:15 am

Have a wonderful day, Mr. Cohen.
If you ever need an easy few extra hundred thousand bucks, a few tour dates (including Montreal!) should do the trick. You can name your price, and I'll be there, front and centre.

September_Cohen · Post by **September_Cohen** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 4:22 am

I'll go on that beautiful way....Bon anniversaire Leonard.
Tu restes une prièere d'imminence pour nous tous

kokenpere · Post by **kokenpere** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 9:34 am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD

MAY GOOD HEALTH AND THE LOVE OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS CONTINUE

FOR MANY MANY YEARS TO COME.

I MET YOU ALMOST 30 YEARS AGO AND HAVE BEEN A FAN FOR ALMOST 40
YEARS (FROM FAVORITE GAME ON)

MICHAEL FROM MILWAUKEE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LEONARD!!!

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