Today's poet

That's a good choice Freckle, I was just perusing the book looking for one!

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by freckle

a good choice ade and he is a poet indeed, apparently he made his name as a poet b4 a singer but i have to confess i knew him as singer first and i love that song!...i have leonard cohen's book of longing which includes this ...apparently some of the poems were written during his retreat in Mt Baldy

sweet time

how sweet time feels
when its too late

and you don't have to follow
her swinging hips

all the way into
your dying imagination

---

Song

I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater

and how I kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I'd
never been your lover

Leonard Cohen

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hes

That's a good choice Freckle, I was just perusing the book looking for one!

---

Thnx hes i love his little illustrations which accompany the book...oh and I wouldn't mind a visit to that retreat near LA! x

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by freckle

a good choice ade and he is a poet indeed, apparently he made his name as a poet b4 a singer but i have to confess i knew him as singer first and i love that song!...i have leonard cohen's book of longing which includes this ...apparently some of the poems were written during his retreat in Mt Baldy

sweet time

how sweet time feels
when its too late

and you don't have to follow
her swinging hips

all the way into
your dying imagination

---

Mt. Baldy you say,
Must retreat there,
One day,
To soar, not like a seagull,
But a majestic Bald Eagle.

As the Mist Leaves No Scar

As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you, nor never will.

When wind and hawk encounter,
What remains to keep?
So you and I encounter.
Then turn, and fall to sleep.

As many nights endure
Without a moon or star,
S will we endure
When one is gone and far.

LC

You are funny! :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by stevefoster

Mt. Baldy you say,
Must retreat there,
One day,
To soar, not like a seagull,
But a majestic Bald Eagle.

---

I really fancy a retreat too but I'd be happy with a remote Scottish island and a tiny cottage on the shore with a peat fire...then again, a little whitewashed hovel on a greek cliff with the deep blue sea lapping below wouldn't be so bad either! :)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by freckle

Thnx hes i love his little illustrations which accompany the book...oh and I wouldn't mind a visit to that retreat near LA! x

---

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hes

You are funny! :)

---

I've tried taking life seriously, it's no fun, and you miss so much of the beauty of life, wrapped in your own misery, smile and appreciate the little things is my way forward, and keep running faster than the demons. (i've discovered demons don't like going uphill)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by stevefoster

I've tried taking life seriously, it's no fun, and you miss so much of the beauty of life, wrapped in your own misery, smile and appreciate the little things is my way forward, and keep running faster than the demons. (i've discovered demons don't like going uphill)

---

Funny; I've discovered that too. They don't like going up stairs either! :cool:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Hes

a little whitewashed hovel on a greek cliff with the deep blue sea lapping below wouldn't be so bad either! :)

---

Just watched a programme about people who want to get married in Greece, one couple had their ceremony on Santorini, been there twice, some cracking cliffs to build a hovel on, beautiful island that was blown apart by volcanic action yonks ago.