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Poem for January 2008
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By
The Minx, Entertainment editor
Tuesday,
1 January, 2008
Winter Lady
"Trav'ling lady, stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover.
Well I lived with a child of snow
when I was a soldier,
and I fought every man for her
until the nights grew colder.
She used to wear her hair like you
except when she was sleeping,
and then she'd weave it on a loom
of smoke and gold and breathing.
And why are you so quiet now
standing there in the doorway?
You chose your journey long before
you came upon this highway.
Trav'ling lady stay awhile
until the night is over.
I'm just a station on your way,
I know I'm not your lover."
Leonard Cohen 1934-present
The Canadian Leonard Cohen is regarded as one of the foremost poets, authors and song-writers of his generation.
Over the years Montreal born Cohen has been garlanded with awards, been linked romatically to many famous and beautiful women, lived as a hippie on Corfu and later as a Buddhist monk on Mount Baldy in Calfornia and regularly featured in the list of the Top Ten singer songwriters of the 20th century.
Cohen's earliest songs (many of which appeared on the 1968 album Songs of Leonard Cohen) were rooted in European folk music melodies and instrumentation, sung in a high baritone.
Since the 1980s he has typically sung in lower registers (bass baritone, sometimes bass), with accompaniment from electronic synthesizers and female backing singers.
His work explores the themes of religion, isolation, sexuality, and complex interpersonal relationships.
Cohen's songs and poetry have influenced many other singer-songwriters, and more than a thousand renditions of his work have been recorded.
He has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour.
Cohen will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 10, 2008 for his status among the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters."
In 2007 he had to come out of retirement after it emerged that his manager and former lover had embezzled his savings while he was living as a monk.
Among his classic composition are Suzanne, Hallelujah and Bird on a Wire.
The Naked Reader 2008
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