Could the line be Manna Cup?

I don't know if anyone has noted this before but does any body else see a connection with this song and the Theosophist composer Scriabin? "Scriabin devised a quartal synthetic chord, often called his "mystic" chord, and before his death Scriabin planned a multimedia work to be perfor...

"lay your rose on the fire"


possibly a reference to Song of Songs?

"Like a rose among thorns, so is my beloved among the maidens,"

I like this, it spoke to me of the subjugation of the self in longing for another. Very good.

hi Vicomtesse, thanks for the welcome. When I look at what some of my contemporaries are listening to I do just wonder "why" I admit, but I try not to be toojudgemental, everyone has their own tastes I suppose, but really now x factor? What is the point? Mary B. You responded to a post of ...

Adolescence In Napkin Poems You see the mirror outside your bedroom window in it your face young and handsome (laughing perhaps). You never wanted to change the world nor to be the poet of the age: (Which was lucky because you’re not) On a desk, some waiting to be burnt lie your adolescence in napki...

Hello all! I am new to the forum, got into Leonard Cohen about two years ago, almost three years now, I have all of his albums and books now and can't wait for the next album to come out. I first got into Leonard Cohen after hearing Everybody Knows at my mothers house, I believe that The Favourite G...

The subject of the poem, who it is addressed to is G-d himself in the emanation of Hesed, or love, this same emanation also encapsulates Abraham, who is acknowledged as the progenitor of Jews, Christians and Muslims, those who fight for every hill, who is also referred to in Issiah as "Abraham ...

Just a poem of mine The Master’s Tools There is the poem I long to write forsaking all other poems, all other arts. It was to be hauntingly beautiful so much so that people would shiver or even weep to read it, and when it was read aloud from raised pulpits or soapboxes people would fall to the grou...

I have never been able to say which is my favourite album, because it changes all the time, but Ten New Songs was the first actual album or Leonard's that I purchased, (technical first was the Essential but that I count as a compilation) and well it may have been because I was at a certain age and i...

I have always assumed that the "merry merry month of may" line is a reference to Don Juan by Lord Byron, I forget the canto but the stanza runs something like this: and now at thirty years my hair is grey i wonder what it will be like at forty i thought of a peruke the other day my heart i...