Leonard Cohen

[guitargrrl.livejournal.com]

two poems about poetry by him:



You tell me that silence
is nearer to peace than poems
but if for my gift
I brought you silence
(for I know silence)
you would say
This is not silence
this is another poem
and you would hand it back to me.

-Leonard Cohen



This is the only poem
I can read
I am the only one
can write it
I didn't kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn't turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn't sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me

-Leonard Cohen

Comments

[oheunoia.livejournal.com]

how weird. i was reading "stranger music" today and was contemplating posting "gift." anyway, awesome poem.

[xanderschild.livejournal.com]

i really like these. :D