A product of walking in the woods and stumbling upon the reflections of others whom seemed compelled to let their feelings and wisdom be known to anyone who may wish to read…..
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22
Sep
14
Wisdom in the woods
20
Sep
14
I am my father’s son: adam cohen
Adam Cohen
An interesting, open and honest interview broadcast by CBC’s the NATIONAL featuring Adam Cohen, the son of well-known and revered poet, song-smith, singer legend Leonard Cohen discussing his career struggle to find his own voice midst the tall cast of his father’s inspiring decades-long fame.
I wrote the following two poems sometime back following an equally insightful documentary of Leonard Cohen and now, seeing them in-light of Adam Cohen’s realization: he need not resist the undeniable truth he is his father’s son:
Inspiration
I watched
I listened
A humble man
Creator of words
Magical expression
Inspiring thought
Stimulating senses
To survive his years
In poetry
Or
In song
His Mission
To inspire
An icon
To poetry’s
Throng
Through words
Forever
Lives on
Leonard Cohen
1970 – Leonard Cohen
Reflections of a turbulent time long past
Emerges again for all to witness at last
The personal story of an artist then great
A talent time’s passage could not fade
His verse of song pronounced and deep
Speaking to the truth of love all of us seek
Leonard Cohen’s poetry somberly wise, reflective
Portraiture of life seen with unique perspective
Gained by the artistry of this unique insightful man
Immortalizing a presence we still struggle to understand
13
Sep
14
Troubling Confluence
A recent CBC.ca interview broadcast with Naomi Klein (Interview) wherein she discusses the background for her new book This Changes Everything, prompted the following poem:
Fragile has become the ground on which humanity treads;
A global decision to pollute and poison chosen instead,
When no longer there are resources by which it is fed
The only conclusion: humanity on Earth forever, will be dead!
Rhetorical scripts pronouncement espousing remedy
That in the end, renders no practical reversal to this calamity,
Pacified by weak measure of corporate promise to indemnity,
State governments fail to prosecute and exercise viable, criminal penalty.
For all its intelligence humanity has proven its ignorance;
For the path it has chosen with seeming indifference,
Eluded by the concept: its presence being a permanence,
Will awaken to the reality: its extinction by this troubling confluence.
Your message has been sent
Why is the REAL world hidden from view?
Is there TRULY something to hide from me and you?
Science-fictional tales attempt to undo,
What most have come to believe is to be true:
That alternate worlds reside beyond this earthly existence!
Unfortunately, with the wrong people controlling, with resistance,
Guarding centuries-old secrets with deathly persistence,
Demanding Common People to stand up with insistence:
For the vale of futile secrecy for once be lifted,
Exposing the nature of what secret knowledge has been gifted,
So humanity can for once gain from what has already been enlisted
And, to recognize Ex-terrestrials and Terrestrials have and for-ever, co-existed!
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