TRUE Archives - Esther Cohen

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Party for Joe

Posted on December 9, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Saturday Joe celebration Joe loved parties people discussing everything he danced with Annie last New Year’s Eve at a bar on 72nd Street liked going to l...

hope/Life and Death/Poetry/TRUE/words/writing

There Are Always Poems

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

Even on difficult days when a close friend dies Things Happen the way they do because life is when Things Happen snow and a strange woman falls then she gets up...

choices/holidays/hope/Love/TRUE

Two Days After Thanksgiving Poem

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 1 Comment

Mr. Rogers movie with Tom Hanks on West 57th Street modern theater, cynical clientele and not only that, it was Thanksgiving some in the audience psychiatrists,...

choices/holidays/Poetry/TRUE/words

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

tomorrow will be my real Thanksgiving poem not just a haiku

Life and Death/Love/mother/TRUE/words/Yiddish

Mothers

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

Harder to be a mother than I understood when I was just a daughter never thought much about the Mother Side and now after all these years I know for sure my mot...

choices/friendship/Good Stories/Jews/TRUE/Yiddish

Last Night at Dinner Howard Said

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

Howard who is maybe 92 or 93 said that he was on the bus and a woman with many shopping bags maybe she was homeless she said after he handed her five dollars sh...