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Cohen Poems - Poems about Cohen

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Trying To Live In Your Shadow
I have not prayed enough to be like you, I have not loved enough to write like you. The night is my god, stars my angels I'll never touch, while the darkness that hides in my pockets my lover, but...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, death, heaven, loneliness, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lepre-Cohen
On Saint Pat’s Day, with the Guinness flowin’ All night long the blarney was blown’ I’ll trap a Leprechaun—I’d shout With chicken soup, not stout! Then caught the rarely seen Lepre-Cohen! Written 3/27/22...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, holiday,
Form: Limerick



How I Want To Die
There's a boy who's crying in sheer dread I want to save him From the gun that's pointed 'gainst his head I want to save him There's a girl who's shivering in the cold I want to save her From the...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, culture, death, hero, society,
Form: Ballad


Prayer For America
America... After 9/11, the country seemed reborn Ready to shift from the shallow to the profound What ever happened to the America that could have been? What ever happened to the America we deserve? Step into my church And pray For a...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, america, anger, culture, hero,
Form: Ballad
I Had a Dream
A great man had a dream Ending in a murder scene And I'm not such a man Never been so brave or grand But little one I had a dream About a nation that became... A dazzling sky The heroes of youth A burning...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, america, dream, hope, inspirational,
Form: Ballad



Poet Or Sinner
You knew me when I built monsters Before the days when you bled You knew me when I surrendered To the nightmares in my head You were just a child Nothing's ever changed I see the child in you Like some eternal...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, confusion, innocence, lonely, memory,
Form: Ballad
The Mentor
In dreams I appear and take her Down a path she dares not wander In a town beset by plunder I shake her blood and bone In dreams she asks my guidance How to live in holy silence Beyond the anger...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, dream, love, mentor, relationship,
Form: Ballad
My Key To the Stars
I reach for you, in a bed gone dark I feel for you, in the empty air I reach for you, in dreams so scared I can't believe, that you're not there I ache for you, four seasons love I...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, heartbroken, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Ballad
If I Could Divide the Smell of Flowers
If I could divide the smell of flowers I'd send some to the falsely charged Locked in prison cells Send some to the lonely seniors Trapped in apartment hells Send some to the weary miners Sweating beneath the ground Send some to...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, flower, song,
Form: Ballad
There Was a Boy
There was a boy Playing on a swing Deep in love with life Loving everything And he'd speak to God When all alone Making deals with God 'Bout his dreams and hopes When the night would fall And he'd lie in bed Listening to the...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, boy, childhood, cry, growing
Form: Ballad
The Crime of Being Me
On a brutal winter night We stood bravely side by side Against snowballs launched our way By the enemies of our kind In a graveyard's mourning light We both choked up, cried and cried As the angels lifted him On Death's gloomy...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, brother, conflict, family, forgiveness,
Form: Ballad
Father, You Believed
Father, you believed Never let me bleed Helped me in my grief Helped me in my need Never let me down Wish you were around Walking through this town You're nowhere to be found Dad, I love you so Father you believed Never let me...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, bereavement, dad, eulogy, father,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Re Leonard Cohen
he sang poetry sonorous enchanting tone metaphorical...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, appreciation, emotions, poetry,
Form: Senryu
Prison Cohen Started To Head
Prison Cohen Started To Head Prison is where Cohen started to head, Which is something that he does dread; His teeth brushing; Commode slushing; Eating meals and spending nights in bed. Jim Horn...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Cohen Sang Song
Cohen Sang Song Cohen sang song which was a carol; Now they have Trump over a barrel; He started new cult, Called sexual assault; Not only that presidency is imperil. Jim Ho Ho Horn...Read the rest...
Categories: cohen, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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