The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 May – call me – art by Frederic Edwin Church & Thomas Dewing

04 May 2023 By Rhett 0 In Love, Poems, Random, Songs

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. What can we call you? Can we call you? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

well, yes, a callin’

if you will, to be

here writin’ this

cannot imagine

any other purpose

nor fathom other

reasons to explain

the seemin’ly

wrong turns,

the choices made

the reaches, the chances

taken all apparently

necessary to get here

where i

at long last

belong

some things you get to choose

but for this, one is chosen

a gift and it’s

responsibility

it requires given somethin’

intimate and secret of yourself

without care, because you have

to believe that what you have

to say is important enough

though it struggles now and again

oh sorry,
have to avoid
the “L” word

call it, a search
for unresolved years
time left in the rear view
through which now i see,
connectin’ you and me

when you are near,
across lost chances
always, to be near you,
when we dream and so
believe, which leads to
here, where we are

for this we live
for this we, well
you know, the “L” word

“Do you collect anything?”
books, words, photographs,
dreams, memories of you

“Do you want me?”

oh hell yes, but this

is unlike anything

you have ever known

call me
i will tell you

if two outta three ain’t bad,
what would one outta three be

oh, nice try, need
but thank you, no
not havin’ any
somethin’ inside
will not let it be

to find that
would require
openin’ up
and pourin’ out
but be careful
if you go there

how it will end
is well known

Another from the archives. Written in the days when only you spoke to me. Before the Dark Muse took control. If only you could……

Call Me

Call me a Renaissance Man – Thank you.
Call me a gentleman – Of course
Call me a scoundrel – Well…
Call me a cowboy – Proudly
Call me a poet – You know it
Call me a philosopher – I think, therefore…
Call me a flirt – Probably
Call me a dreamer – Decidedly
Call me a lover – That is what I was meant to be
Call me a man for all occasions – Count on it

Call me old fashioned – Really
Call me romantic – Hopelessly
Call me funny – Hopefully
Call me wonderful – Would you
Call me woeful – At times
Call me lonely – Only most of the time
Call me spiritual – I am tryin’
Call me friend – Always
Call me flawed – Without a doubt
Call me ordinary – Them’s fightin’ words! ! !

Today is the birthday of Frederic Edwin Church (Hartford, May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900 New York City); landscape painter. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. Church’s paintings put an emphasis on light and a romantic respect for natural detail. In his later years, Church painted classical Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scenes and cityscapes.


Frederic Edwin Church

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L’Arche naturelle (1852)

Aurora Borealis (1865), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

Tropical Scenery (1873), Brooklyn Museum

El Río de Luz (The River of Light (1877), National Gallery of Art

Cotopaxi, 1855

Heart of the Andes (1859), Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cotopaxi, (1862)

The Andes of Ecuador, c. 1855, Honolulu Museum of Art – this image is a sketch for the final work – which is at the Reynolds
Cotopaxi, (1855)
Cross in the Wilderness, 1857
Morning in the Tropics, ca. 1858, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Twilight in the Wilderness, (1860), Cleveland Museum of Art
Oosisoak, (1861)
Rainy Season in the Tropics, 1866, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Niagara Falls, from the American Side, 1867
Passing Shower in the Tropics, 1872, Princeton University Art Museum
Aegean Sea, c. 1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Parthenon, 1871, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, 1870, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
El Khasne Petra, 1874, Olana State Historic Site
Niagara Falls,1857, Frederic Edwin Church, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
The Icebergs, 1861, Dallas Museum of Art

Today is the birthday of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (Boston, May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938 New York City); painter working at the turn of the 20th century. Schooled in Paris, Dewing was noted for his figure paintings of aristocratic women. He was a founding member of the Ten American Painters and taught at the Art Students League of New York. The Art Museum at the Smithsonian Institution has a room dedicated to his works. He was the husband of fellow artist Maria Oakey Dewing.

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