Hi Angelika, welcome to the Forum and thank you for your thoughts.
Just a note - the quote in your first post from Villanelle For Our Time is from Frank Scott (Canadian poet, 1899 - 1985). Leonard Cohen wrote only music by this poem. Anyway, he has interpreted it beautifully.

Hi Ingrid, welcome to the Forum and thank you for your thoughts! I can go along with your interpretation (btw it's "For less than a second"). I've been listening to this song a lot, I was thinking about a female Messiah, your explanation has helped me further. I'm sure Leonard Cohen was fa...

Thanks Maarten!
Now everything is clear, I'm keeping my fingers crossed wishing you (and us all) good luck!
Jarmila

Listening to her new album, hmmm - I think I am not the only who can hear it.....1:10.....2:45......3:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvj6PE3gN4o

Day of loving memories.....
red needle, green candle and his voice.

Wonderful news!

Madrid, Spain - 1,2,3,4 November
https://www.perla.com/tour-dates

Purmerend, the Netherlands - 8 November
https://depurmaryn.nl/programma-2018201 ... -of-cohen/

Hello Palla, welcome to the forum! No silly question at all, it is "to kill". You can also check the lyrics on https://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/; you will find an alphabetical song index on the left side of the homepage. Another great site: http://www.webheights.net/cohenconcordance/ Kind...

I’m so aware
That it’s all unreal:
One by one, the things
Of this world pass on.
But why do I still grieve?

(Ryokan, Zen Buddhist Monk)

Empty and quiet
I sit in meditation
a deep silence mourns.

Jarmila

This is an early version, published on the Files in 2003 (LC copyright 2001, 2003) - long before the scandal with Sasaki Roshi. It makes the narrow interpretation of the song as Leonard's reckoning with Roshi even more improbable. IT SEEMED THE BETTER WAY It seemed the better way When first I heard ...

Thank you, davidrichards, at least you are not alone.
Jarmila

Being said before:

Unspoken Words wrote: Please just reflect with dignity. It is only time for reflection, silence and grace.

Dear lcbuddy,
thank you for your touching introduction; I'm sure your words resonate with many of us.
Thank you for joining the forum.

Kind regards,
Jarmila

Happy Birthday Leonard,
may love surround you always and forever!

Jarmila

Dear Jarkko,
wishing you with all our heart happy birthday and a wonderful journey along Route 66,
thank you for your smile and so much more.

Jarmila and Peter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgZnUXqvi8

Friends, last instructions to let everything go smoothly on Sunday: 1. ZEN SESSION 10:00 am We would like to ask you to come between 9:30 and 10:00, please be in time. IMPORTANT: please don't come (don't ring the bell...) before 9:30, there are zen practitioners in the zendo meditating till 9:30. 2....