to define you
I could write a thesis
study your life, your metaphors and their meanings
fill a million pages with puny words of praise
to define you
I could cup my tears in thankful hands
and offer them up,
dripping from my fingers, as an unfinished description
of your beauty
to define my love for you
I could cut my wrists, and with the blood
paint your lyrics across my skin
I could set your famous blue raincoat in stone
and kiss its hem
but you are unique
and only one definition will do
to define you
and all that you have been,
are,
and will be to me
I only have to say your name:
Leonard Cohen
©Jane Paterson Basil
That gravelly voice 🙂
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His words…
I saw him live, 35 years ago. He went through the set, and then started again. The venue staff were furious; his fans were ecstatic. He is the most beautiful man.
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Good for him !
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Are you going to send it to him ? He just might enjoy it !
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Give me his address… (swoon…)
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Are you up off the floor yet ? 🙂
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Just about 🙂
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To quote your muse, “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”….damn! you can write! i love love love the way you put words to so many things and so many things make sense when you fit them into words!! (excuse if i dont make sense!)
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Thank thank thank you. I want to write like Leonard, but only he can do that…
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and only you can write like you…
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xxx
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Damn you Leonard, must you steal ALL my women??
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Maybe if you’d invited me to share that shrimp meal, things would have been different, but it’s too late now.
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You mean all that stood between me and you being a couple was the timely delivery of crustaceans?! NOOOooooooooooooooo!!!!!! *sob*
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Any one of those delicious meals you cooked would have sufficed, but what hurt me – what really hurt me – was that you consumed the whole saffron-fest ON YOUR OWN, while I trudged the streets searching for a lollipop stick I could chew, to extract the last of the flavour; or perhaps a discarded apple core, and then I heard, far away in the distance, the sweet lilt of beautiful music. I followed the heavenly sound, hoping it may come from a restaurant, where I’d find a skip, with good things to eat. The source of the mucic came from a factory window; there was no sustenance to be found there, nothing but LEONARD COHEN’S BEAUTIFUL voice inviting me to dance, and forget my hunger – and just for a moment, I did, I did, may God forgive me for my disloyalty to a SELFISH GREEDY GIT who ate two portions of a delicious meal without giving a thought to me.
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*sigh*
Well, when you put it that way, I guess a guy can’t fault a girl for settling for second best.
And it was closer to four portions.
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp.
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there’s. No. Need. To. Rub. It. In.
Unless you have an exotic oil on your palms.
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Among other appendages. You never know who you’re gonna meet.
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Don’t try to fob me off with your appendages – I want my dinner.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but they can be one and the same you know.
But fine. An actual dinner of actual food shall be your should you ever find yourself slumming it for some reason in the wilds of Sussex County, NJ and contact me therein. Bring your own spork.
🙂
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I think it’s time for me to back off gracefully…
Goodnight x
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Ciao!
Or rather, “Chow!”
🙂
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Oh… what a voice…mesmerizing…
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His voice and his lyrics have cradled me safely for over fourty years…
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I’ll go on to you tube tmrw and chk or other numbers also
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You really should: Try Alexandra leaving, and Take this Waltz – or maybe just listen to everything he’s ever done. He went through a dodgy phase a few years ago, so try to forgive him, because he’s the best.
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That’s OK… these phases happen… even our legend Amitabh Bachchan went thru it… but like you said… he’s the best… that’s why they are legends…..
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I had to Google Amitabh Bachchan…
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😃 that’s ok
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Thanks for sharing….
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My pleasure – until you’ve listened o Leonard Cohen , something is missing from your life 🙂
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Leonard Cohen passed away, but his song writing will be viable forever.
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He didn’t die – it was a hoax – there have been a few of those lately.
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Sexy song, love it.
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Very nice tribute. I didn’t get to know him until Plato introduced me…
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I can’t believe I’ve never mentioned him. His music and lyrics play a big part in my life.
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awesome! ❤
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visit it once 🙂
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Thank you!
I’ll be right over 🙂
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