With all due respect <dar>, this isn't journaling. It’s a message … a reflective, decisive one … perhaps to a lover. As I've said above, I can't prove that this manuscript, or the hand-written poem that was in the book when I bought it (signed ‘Leonard Cohen’), were definitely written by LC. But wha...

I agree with Wendy that the date format is not conclusive proof either way. I have looked into that and gather it's a format commonly used in Canada. I cannot prove that the poem is genuine. But I have always believed it is. And see below for the intriguing anonymous manuscript written (in pencil) i...

Hello fellow fans of Leonard Cohen. 40 years ago I bought a second-hand copy of ‘LEONARD COHEN: Poems 1956-1968’ (Published London, 1969) in a London shop. And when I opened it a loosely inserted manuscript note fell out. It was an original poem, signed Leonard Cohen and dated 25 February 1970. Then...