A watercolour illustration inspired by “Elegy,” the opening poem in Leonard Cohen’s very first poetry collection, Let Us Compare Mythologies, from 1956.
Elegy
Do not look for him
In brittle mountain streams:
They are too cold for any god;
And do not examine the angry rivers
For shreds of his soft body
Or turn the shore stones for his blood;
But in the warm salt ocean
He is descending through cliffs
Of slow green water
And the hovering coloured fish
Kiss his snow-bruised body
And build their secret nests
In his fluttering winding-sheet.
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Holy smokes! If I could have “loved” this rather than merely “like” it, I would have. Love it! Sublime work, my friend! I think you must have a Symbolist in a previous life. Rest assured that had I also been living at the time, I would have been one of your most fervent champions.
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Grazie, caro fratello! I sometimes think we were both meant to have lived in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna. But alas, it seems we aren’t destined to live in the same city even in this century!
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Reblogged this on Life in Rhymes / Vida em Versos and commented:
Cohen in colors
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