 My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn’t write What the night pencilled in... (from "The Book of Longing") Index of Titles / drawings, first lines Many of the poems and drawings were published at The Blackening Pages of The Leonard Cohen Files, and in various magazines (Intensity, Newsletter of Mount Baldy Zen Center, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, 15 dana, Walrus, Oris), and sites (The Mount Baldy Zen Center, The Zen Centre of Vancouver). Click on the underlined poems and drawings to read them online on the sites of their respective publishers. Poems which were used as the lyrics for Ten New Songs, Dear Heather, and Blue Alert albums are linked to the song lyrics at www.10newsongs.com, www.dearheather.com and www.bluealertmusic.com sites. A couple of poems were published in Poems From A Room, at the pages of Hydra 2002 - The Leonard Cohen Experience. Note that drawings in the book are printed in black&white, while at The Blackening Pages you can see many of them in the original colours. |
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a private gaze 96 Alexandra Leaving 60 All My News 42 Alone at Last 173 angry at 11 pm 134 Another Christopher 132 Another Poet 186 Anything Which Refers 176 Argument 130 back in montreal 172 Backyard 150 Basket 51 Beach at Kamini, The 80 Because of a Few Songs 208 Best, The 141 Better 11 Better to Be Lost 220 Body of Loneliness 40 Boogie Street 64 Book of Longing, The 1 (Read early version at The Blackening Pages) but turn me on my side... 224 Butter Dish 129 By the Rivers Dark 53 Centre, The 218 Cheater 228 Cigarette Issue, The 71 Clockwork 142 Cold, The 84 Collapse of Zen, The 19 Correct Attitude, The 157 Cross, The 123 Darkness Enters, The 182 Dear Diary 83 dear roshi... 23 (See it in full colour at The Blackening Pages) Delay 101 Disturbed This Morning 39 Drunk Is Gender-Free, The 143 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006 / Read the early version The Drunkard Becomes Gender-Free at The Blackening Pages) During the Day 81 Dusko's Taverna 1967 75 (Read it at Poems From A Room pages) Early Morning at Mt. Baldy 21 Early Questions 45 Even Now 185 Even Some of My Own 166 Faith, The 198 Faithless Wife, The 147 (Read the translation of Federico Garcia Lorca's original poem) falling in love with you 118 First of All 122 Flood, The 229 Flow, The 194 Food Tastes Good 48 for all my art... 155 Fun 49 furthermore, you do not have... 203 Go Little Book 216 Goal, The 153 Good Germans 94 Gravity 212 (Read the early version No Middleman at The Blackening Pages) Great Divide, The 191 Great Event, The 108 (Read it on More Best Of Leonard Cohen pages at The Leonard Cohen Files) Half the World 226 (Read it on www.bluealertmusic.com [Released as Half the Perfect World]) Her Friend 188 Here It Is 199 His Master's Voice 3 Historic Claremont Village 38 Hospitality 217 How Could I Have Doubted 106 I Am Now Able 193 i believe that you are standing... 52 i copied time 223 i guess it's better to start a war 189 I Miss My Mother 72 i never found the girl 35 (Published as Follow Me at The Blackening Pages) I Wrote for Love 89 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) If I Could Help You 95 if you are young... 59 If You Knew 88 Inside Our Love 221 Irving and Me at the Hospital 205 It Seemed the Better Way 190 Jana Thinks of John 177 jikan who pretended to be a poet... 184 just to have been one of them... 36 Kitchen Table 211 Laughter in the Pantheon 82 Layton's Question 87 Leaving Mt. Baldy 22 Letters, The 209 Life of Errands, A 66 Limited Degree, A 65 Looking Away 165 Looking Through My Dreams 179 Lorca Lives 90 Love Itself 54 Love-Sick Monk, The 13 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) Luckiest Man in the World, The 24 Magic Cure, A 85 Medicine 17 Mercy Returns Me 91 Mission 68 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) Mist of Pornography, The 98 monk's head, artist's proof 27 Montreal Afternoon 102 Moon, The 46 Moving Into a Period 34 Much Later 131 My Baby Wasn't There 74 My Consort 37 my guitar... 195 My Life in Robes 2 My Mother Asleep 137 (Read it at Poems From A Room pages) My Mother Is Not Dead 139 My Redeemer 121 My Time 178 Need the Speed 105 Never Mind 144 Never Once 162 Nightingale 146 (See a page from Book of Longing at www.bluealertmusic.com) Not a Jew 158 Note to the Chinese Reader, A 196 (Read it at The Leonard Cohen Files) Now In My Room 181 oh and one more thing 167 Old Automat on 23rd St., The 77 On the Path 120 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) One of My Letters 5 one of those days... 116 only one thing made him happy... 210 (See it at the pages of the Oris magazine) Opened My Eyes 156 Other Writers 15 Pardon Me 187 paris again... 78 Paris Sky, The 109 Party Was Over Then Too, The 25 pretending to dig in 227 Promise, A 202 Puerto Rican Song, A 63 Puppets 160 Reading to the Prime Minister 104 Religious Statues 69 Remote, The 97 Report to R.S.B. 204 Robert Appears Again 138 Roshi 16 Roshi at 89 4 Seisen Is Dancing 33 Separated 133 Shirley 140 sit still... 206 So Do You 180 Something from the Early Seventies 125 soon there will be no one... 214 (Published as Mysterious Imprecision at The Blackening Pages) Sorrows of the Elderly 171 S.O.S. 1995 7 (Read early version S.O.S. from the Newsletter of the Mount Baldy Zen Center) Split 58 Stanzas for H.M. 113 still looking at the girls... 207 (Published as Inner Peace & Harmony at The Blackening Pages) Story Thus Far, The 110 stunned and still not suffering 174 Suggestions 183 Sun, The 213 Sweet Time 47 Sweetest Little Song, The 111 Takanawa Prince Hotel Bar 31 taxes children lost pussy... 175 the face can be composed... 41 the inner sweetness of the man... 117 (Published as The Inner Sweetness at The Blackening Pages) the lamp in room 3 225 the promise of a youthful shirt 100 the road is too long 215 the truth of the line... 86 There for You 201 There Is a Moment 145 these portraits are far behind my... 62 Thing 112 Third Invention, The 136 this book will begin to speak... 119 This Is It 28 this is the best way to do it 164 This Isn't China 30 this mood has nothing to do with you 161 Thousand Kisses Deep 56 Thousands 73 Tired 124 Titles 159 To a Young Nun 14 Too Old 79 Tradition, The 92 Travelling Light #31 149 True Self 18 Unbecoming 76 vibrant, but dead 152 Voice Dictating in a Plane Over Europe 107 we are not convinced... 50 we will all be airbrushed 128 we will not be staying... 197 What Baffled Me 169 What Did It 70 When I Drink 9 When I Went Out 151 Who Do You Really Remember 163 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) Why I Love France 115 Wind Moves, The 170 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) Wish Me Luck 67 Work in Progress 154 worried of course 200 You Are Right, Sahara 44 you don't want to go out any more 135 You Have Loved Enough 55 You'd Sing Too 6 (Read it online in Telegraph from September 24, 2006) Your Heart 168 Your Rentless Appetite for New Perspectives 219 Welcome | Index | Works by Leonard Cohen | Reviews & Articles | Index of Titles / drawings, first lines & online poems | e-card | Credits & Thanks |
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