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The Lovers’ Chronicle 31 May – a poet’s heartbreak (II) – verse by Walt Whitman – art by Walter Sickert

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.  How does your heart break?  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, inspired by Wilde’s “Roses and Rue” “Sadly, no stranger to heartbreak” here is a view on the matter i have not taken “Oh do tell” for the poet, heartbreak does not come in loss, it […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 30 May – on my mind – photography by Félix Arnaudin

Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Hope you are well.  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, not inspired by the song Wille sang so well “With Willie, always” though it could have been even though the very act is impossible “That never stopped a good song” or a bad one “Right” from […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 29 May – three words – photography by Doris Ulmann – verse by Alfonsina Storni

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Follow us on Twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Hey Z, hope all is well.  Jett says hey too.  He is well.  Busy at work.  Dry out here.  We could use some rain.  Mac Tag is right; those words are hard to say.  I do not know about you, but I […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 May – until now – verse by Thomas Moore – art by Carl Larsson – birth of Ian Fleming & Walker Percy

Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Hope you had a good day!  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, i thought i knew what it was to be, beyond reservations totally with another where days were not born of ordinariness i read about it did a lot of pretendin’ i knew, but i never […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 27 May – return – birth of Wild Bill Hickok – art by Georges Rouault – verse by Linda Pastan

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Check us out on Twitter @cowboycoleridge.  I hope Mac Tag keeps up the love song of the day.  I like it.  I also like New Orleans.  I have spent some time there with some beautiful women.  Somethin’ about those Southern Belles.  And I love the Walt Whitman quote […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 26 May – need – birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – photography by Dorothea Lange

Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  Follow us of Twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Howzit goin’ Z?  Same same here; chores, readin’, writin’, drinkin’ some cold beer.  Probably have some red wine and a steak later.  In other words, the typical life for a solitary cowboy.  Be good to yourself.  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, one more time, dare ask the […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 25 May – always – art by Carlo Dolci & Will Barnet – verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson & Theodore Roethke – birth of Louise de Broglie & Raymond Carver

Rhett shares “Sonnet 91” by William Shakespeare for Zazie to read!

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 24 May – la llorona – art by Pontormo & Alexei Savrasov

Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his Muse.  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, the final time She came to me i was asleep in bed i felt her lift me up, with one hand on my groin and the other at my throat i was aroused, afraid, i tried to ask who She was […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 23 May – passin’ by – art by Carl Bloch, Amaldus Nielsen, Luis Ricardo Falero – & József Rippl-Rónai – birth of Jane Kenyon

Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  I agree with Mac Tag’s comment at the end.  What about you Zazie?  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this question asked once ago; “Listen, have you ever been…” and the answer then, no, of course i knew it happened now and then and that it could be […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 22 May – no comfort – verse by Gérard de Nerval – art by Fritz von Uhde, Hildegard Thorell, Mary Cassatt & Belmiro Almeida

Hey Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, there is now of a much different sort than back then the consistent writin’ that began in mid 2017 brought in a certain kind before that, the Nerval years, there was very little just grateful now that whatever inside kept hangin’ in […]

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