5/24/2023 0 Comments The flame cohen![]() ![]() Leonard does not seem comfortable with labels like “mystic” but he is happy to use the poetry of the Spanish Mystics to express his transcendent leanings and “listing”. In this poem Leonard identifies with Cruz’s way of understanding Divinity and becomes, with the interaction of his Soul, “G~d” or what Cruz calls “god by participation”…where the individual becomes conscious of one’s own divine soul and that individual soul unifies with the Divinity's Soul, and then both soul and Soul experience co-existent Union and this "unified heart" equates to a 1st “position” of ( Leonard’s “various positions”) the transcendent mystic…man becomes god and G~d becomes man in a spiritual Holy Communion. We don’t so much have an original Leonard Cohen poem as we have an original translation and lovely interpretation of Cruz’ “Dark Night” (of the Soul). In the book The Flame, on page 18 we have the poem “The Lucky Night!!!!!”. ![]() So read on with caution as I stir the cup of crazy fragrance, all around. Well, we wallow in and around and flow in the "undertow"…Ĭhewing on Dark chocolate while sipping hot, ground black coffee with cream has its own aromas and scents some meaning to a life this is what the poetry of Leonard Cohen does for me. ![]() How can we express the ineffable? How can we each say, in our own way, what can’t be said? And how can the reader grasp what can’t quite be touched? Ambiguity, it seems, is a very alluring way to write alluring for both reader and writer. ![]()
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