imaginary friend - this is an excellent poem - powerful emotionally and intellectually. Very nice work. Sorry to do this in your thread, but :sigh: Alice... :roll: You are a writer; you should be conscious of the subtleties of the language you use and the impressions likely to be created. When you p...

Various Positions
Seems that mattered to me once
Now one is plenty

Hoping folks will enjoy this version; it's on the player on my myspace page:

Aaron Black on Myspace

Congratulations, Alice - you've invented a new sub-genre! Poetic dialogues - or maybe we should call it epistolary poetry. I really, really liked Rosie's Retort and not only because I'm a moody, cynical bastard! I think what I liked most was the refreshing viewpoint - poetry from the Alice viewpoint...

Nice!

Morbid...but nice.


beautiful mourning
love and pride acknowledged now
just a bit too late

Hi Alice, I really liked the theme, and the vehicle you chose - the way everything about the environment spoke to you beautifully - but falsely - of a potential future for the relationship. But - I thought the execution a bit heavy-handed and clumsy... I would have preferred it if you had kept the r...

Hi Alice,

Thank you!

-Aaron

Thanks, Simon... Alice - Yeah - what he said. :D Having performed this song live hundreds of times, I can assure you that the rhythm of the last line works just fine. There is a bit if a ritardando at the end - which is admittedly difficult to capture in print... And - after taking my listeners down...

Wow - this thread got busy! Alice, I guess what irked me most about your review was that "real writing" shot...it seemed very dismissive of Leonard Cohen's writing. That, and what appeared to be a condescending tone, not backed up by anything that struck me as truly insightful; it seemed y...

??? Hey Alice... Tom Waits is an excellent writer but...newsflash...this is a Leonard Cohen board, so I think most people on it are pretty familiar with "real writing." If it's your contention that posting all the lyrics to an (admittedly very well-written) Tom Waits song could somehow ser...

This is excellent.

The economy, the universality, the prosody, the understated pathos...

It's exactly what I hope to see when reading poetry - but rarely do.

Nice work.

Thanks,
Aaron

Inside the Sun Inside the sun, there is no fire – fire cannot breathe The protons share their body heat at ten million degrees Upon that heat all life must feed, and in its light must learn to see It’s the furnace of creation for us all It’s the light that shines defiantly against the endless darkne...

80's for me... I'm Your Man and Various Positions are my 2 fav Cohen albums, though The Future comes close behind. Of course, there are a couple of things that may have contributed a bias: 1. That music generally was so bad in the 80's, thus making Cohen's music seem even better 2. These were the fi...

Hey Steven - Agreed and agreed - I think one of the coolest things about Cohen's lyrics is how they have a "spiritual" relevance, even for those (like me) who don't believe in "spirits" per se... I also think he's almost unique among songwriters for his ability to see - and share...

Well Hydriot - you got me - I can't deny that he is singing baffled right there... But - I don't agree that "warrior" scans as well, and I still think battle fits the rest of the song better than baffled. Much, much better... So maybe that will have to be my own little twist on the cover -...