Like ages of weightless snow
on tiny oceans filled with light
her eyelids enclose deeply
a shade tree of birthday candles
From “Now of Sleeping” by Leonard Cohen (The Spice Box of Earth)
78 Things About Leonard Cohen
On Leonard Cohen’s 78th birthday, 21 September 2012, I began a list of, coincidentally enough, “78 Things To Celebrate About Leonard Cohen,” the Updated, New & Improved version of Tim de Lisle’s classic Who Held A Gun To Leonard Cohen’s Head? aka Hallelujah: 70 Things About Leonard Cohen At 70.1
To present this material in a manageable format, the 78 entries have been divided into several posts, each of which contains no more than 10 items. All posts in this series are listed below:
- Introduction & Items #1-10
- Items #11-20
- Items #21-30
- Item #31
- Items #32-40
- Items #41-50
- Items #51-60
- Items #61-70
- Items #71-78
- Who Held A Gun To Leonard Cohen’s Head? by Tim de Lisle. The Guardian, 16 September 2004 [↩]
My opinion ist, that the Leonhard Cohen its better than all the jears before.
This is a Monument in the World of music.
Thanks for his performents. It is a milestone in musikworld.
Hi Cohen fans.
Missed the 20 Dec2012 concert in New York.
Could not change flights from South Africa.
Loved New York ,old have been much better had I managed to see THE MASTER OF SONG.
Can’t wait for the South African leg of the tour to be announced.
Front row at every concert will be my target.
Please please come to SA
Mik