Thanks!!
Leonard Cohen - Marita; This is my voice; The only poem (Spoken poem)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W3sG07UoKk
Leonard Cohen - Poem (sometimes "The hypnotist") - Spoken poem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Je5yzE
Leonard Cohen - Can't help falling in love (Elvis cover)Poem ("I heard of a man ...") from "Let Us Compare Mythologies" - Leonard Cohen
I heard of a man
who says words so beautifully
that if he only speaks their name
women give themselves to him.
If I am dumb beside your body
while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips.
it is because I hear a man climb the stairs and clear his throat outside the door.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-zM76lxA4
Leonard Cohen - Gift (Spoken poem)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJgBENcfvug
Leonard Cohen - How to speak poetry (spoken)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2XkfBW
(See this thread started by "carm" - for "How To Speak Poetry" - text
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=20935&p=217187&hil ... ry#p217187 )
And - this isn't new but -
(uploaded by natales on 2/24/09)Leonard Cohen - Sound of Silence (tribute to Paul Simon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScG0wN05msA
Sound of Silence - Paul Simon (fragments)
"Hello darkness, my old friend,
I've come to talk with you again"
"In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence".
"And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dare
Disturb the sound of silence".
"Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whispered in the sounds of silence".
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