Subway Strangers
I often meet strangers on the subway and sometimes I intend to see them again. Yesterday I met a man who said his grandmother died in 1967 at the age of 92. She...
Author: Esther Cohen
Let me tell you why I'm here, and why I hope you'll join me.
I am here to poem, to play with words, to tell stories when I can, and to ask you for yours. Words are what I love, how I see, and what I say. Words are how I know my life, and how I find my friends. I'm here to ask you to join me. Right here. To send me your stories, and your poems. And to read mine when you can.
I Am Going Away
“Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.” Kurt Vonnegut I am going away on my own away from my thousands of possessions books papers my button...
FACEBOOK POEMS, New Years Day
Dear Esther Can I call you Esther? If not, what should I call you? Do you like the name Esther? If you don’t, can you tell me why not? In that way I will get to...
Yes Maybe Never
I keep thinking I should write a Resolution poem what I’d like to do but never will. Enormous list of impossibilities. Tango Lessons. Portuguese. My friend Lind...
Thank You Thank You Thank You
A while ago when I first realized I was actually GETTING OLDER, I started writing secular there isn’t a god but anyway I want to pray prayers. They were a...
Will I Write a Sentence in 2015?
This time of year every year around this same week because there is a new year which is one of those reality illusion things is January first any different from...