Leonard Cohen Poetry

Leonard Cohen is a singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. He is also winner of Canadian Juno Award and Order of Canada. He works for religion, isolation, sexuality, and interpersonal relationships. Cohen received Prince of Asturias Award for literature in 2011.  

Beneath My Hands ("In my hands, your small breasts ...") from "The Spice-Box of Earth"

Beneath my hands
your small breasts
are the upturned bellies
of breathing fallen sparrows.

Wherever you move
I hear the sounds of closing wings
of falling wings.

I am speechless
because you have fallen beside me
because your eyelashes
are the spines of tiny fragile animals.

I dread the time
when your mouth
begins to call me hunter.

When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want to summon
the eyes and hidden mouths
of stone and light and water
to testify against you.

I want them
to surrender before you
the trembling rhyme of your face
from their deep caskets.

When you call me close
to tell me
your body is not beautiful
I want my body and my hands
to be pools
for your looking and laughing.

The cheerfully acclaimed musical legend Leonard Cohen is situated in enjoyment groups of onlookers as he comes back to the UK in 2013 with an elite show at The O2 . For booking Leonard Cohen tickets you can call us on 020 7283 4040 or book on the web.