Make this a good thread!
A waste just to damn it all ...
Stop! Regenerate!

The infinite hike
up the mountain, shed no light
on his lost childhood

Part of this planet
To be, is all he wanted
From life itself, see!

Hi there. In case you are not familiar with the Cavafy poem that spawned my own limited effort, here's the Cavafy poem in its entirety. That poem is about Barbarians as a "solution", as a means to make a whole nation rally around something (worthy?). On the occasions when I visited Greece ...

Silence (After Constantine Cavafy) When on another hot day, they hid their faces afraid, ashamed, expectant we may have asked them, "why?" and their answer would be, inevitably, 'because the Tourists are coming, you see!’ When on that same hot day they complained that their old values and...

Fascination, fear
Read in every tear that falls
For unbelievers

Malice reveals him
to be no more than a thief
of the love she gives

I have a lot of favorite lines, but this one made me see the light myself:

"There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

These lines told me how beauty comes into being.

In peace live with pain
Take courage, remain the same
Curse and curse again

Perhaps this needs a little introduction. I stumbled over Leonard Cohen in the 1980s around the time when "Various Positions" was released and two programmes (documentaries) were aired on Danish television. A friend of mine loved "Take this Waltz" and played it to me and pointed ...

Hi there.

Although I'm new to this site, I'm no newcomer to poetry, nor to Leonard Cohen's poetry for that matter. Thanks for Master Poems!

And it works!

Thanks!

Rosewind