words Archives - Esther Cohen

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/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...

Poetry/words/writing

Times of Day and Poems

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

Is a poem different if I write it early morning the answer is No.

food/Jews/words/Yiddish

Yiddish, or Rules

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

A few years ago a 13 year old boy won a Yiddish spelling bee by spelling knaidel, Yiddish for Matzoh ball. But YIVO, the official source for Yiddish words in t...

Poetry/strangers/TRUE/words/writing

How to Get More Readers For My Poems

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 9 Comments

Yesterday while I was waiting for the C train going downtown I asked a woman on the bench sitting next to me something I liked about her although I couldn’...