Poetry Archives - Esther Cohen

Haiku of a Real Email from Yesterday

Posted on October 17, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Dear Esther Cohen I live in Nigeria Some poems are OK.

Kol Nidrei

Posted on October 8, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Sometimes I go to a service 5,000 people at the Jacob Javits Center hear Kol Nidre three times in a gigantic room on top of the Hudson River sometimes I sit o...

About Me/choices/holidays/hope/Jews/People/Poetry/prayers

Oct 3 Days of Awe Continue

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Although it is raining although our President remains although there are floods and tornadoes even on an island in Ireland where there have never been floods an...

choices/hope/Poetry/prayers/religion/words

Even Though (Day Two of the New Year)

Posted on October 1, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

Even though it’s the first Tuesday in October I am still hoping winter is not the way I remember even though we have the chance to reflect and atone I am ...

Poetry/strangers/TRUE/words/writing

I Don’t Like Poems

Posted on September 27, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 3 Comments

except if they rhyme said a woman on the crosstown bus on 79th Street named Alice who asked What I Do and I said I write poems every day more or less but she do...

choices/County Route 20/food/hope/Poetry

Restaurant Review (Great Barrington)

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Dear Friends: Here’s a poem. AND I need your help with FINDING MORE READERS for these poems. Tell your friends. Tell your enemies. Tell anyone...