Cohen for ABC Wednesday

Leonard Cohen's voice and style have fascinated me for quite some time. I have favorites songs, of course, but one of his newest, Darkness, makes my heart and feet beat with feelings I thought I'd put to bed in earlier life.


NPR has the first listen of Cohen's new album Old Ideas which was released today. Don't walk, but run there if you like that whisky soaked, smoky low voice of this elder man whose life reads like a novel. Poetry makes sense there as if in an intimate piano bar with a few selected friends and a glass in which Merlot swirls in time to Cohen's gentle rhythm.

I'm going back for a second listen and then I'm scurrying to purchase the album.

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Haiku for Magpie Tales #102

Tess Kincaid of Magpie Tales offers this image for writers' prompt.

Red Spot II, 1921, Wassily Kandinsky

wisps of color bytes

morsels of a mandala

attract magpie eyes

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B for ABC Wednesday

birthdays, balloons and pearls

a string of birthdays

one strand of pearls

markers starlight bright

sneaking up to early thrills

milestones by the digits

'til beyond the central high

production backtracks

still pressing forward

she keeps the clasp in sight

Are you still as excited about your 90th birthday as you were about your 9th? :)

Follow the ABC link and play along! 

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For Magpie Tales #101

Tess Kincaid offers the following image for writers' prompt:

contemporary linking

fronts the muslin wrinkling

black and white alone, flesh

out the dulcet tawny tones

of an artful curve of thinking

the give and take of bending

while the sun sets on the west

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