The Lovers’ Chronicle 8 May – cling – art by Bertalan Székely & Alphonse Legros

Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse.  You can follow us on Twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

this one came from somethin’
Sylvia Plath wrote, about
how we need someone
and what she needed
“No better inspiration,
such beauty and sadness”
the poems that stir me
are the ones where the poet
opens up what is inside their heart
and spreads it across the page
”And the ones that remind us”
yes, to cling to each other

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to another
the one
to pour yourself into someone
the one
no greater need
nor want
nor greater fulfillment

and this certainty
as it should be
these words flowin’
across the page
for you

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at a loss here
struggle at every turn
always told
too sensitive
too considerate
to feel another’s pain
cannot have it otherwise
to pour myself into one
only way to keep me here
these letters, these words
this vision, this refrain
hold on, return again
i keep repeatin’

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a certain,
lack thereof
goin’ on here
by choice

funny how, you never can figure
who you will meet, and care for
here in this vision, come read

the verse, yours really, while
outside mist and rain continue
and inside seekin’ the answers

and this
certainty
as it should be

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cling to this
dances in dreams
stars in the sky

dangit…
this was gonna be
a poem about
waltzin’ the night away
with you under the big
starlit High Plains sky
or perhaps in a ballroom,
the McGregor,
with me in my tux & boots
& you in an evenin’ dress
but i ran outta time

so this will have to do

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To cling to another
the one
To keep each other warm
To pour yourself into someone
the one
There can be no greater need
nor want
There can be no greater fulfillment
This is what I need.  Short of that
I have these letters, these words
These words I pour onto the page
for you

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Today is the birthday of Bertalan Székely (8 May 1835, Kolozsvár, Hungary – 21 August 1910, Budapest); history and portrait painter who worked in the Romantic and Academic styles.

 Self-portrait (1860)

Gallery

"Donna dai capelli rossi".

“Donna dai capelli rossi”.

"Red Haired Girl" (1870) Magyar Nemzeti Galéria

“Red Haired Girl” (1870)
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria

Japanese Woman

Japanese Woman

Portrait of a Woman 1880

Portrait of a Woman 1880

And today is the birthday of Alphonse Legros (Dijon, France; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911 Watford, Hertfordshire, England); painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist.  He moved to London in 1863 and later took British citizenship. He was important as a teacher in the British etching revival.

Gallery

Photograph of Legros by David Wilkie Wynfield

Photograph of Legros by
David Wilkie Wynfield

"Cupid and Psyche" Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), Tate Britain, London

“Cupid and Psyche”
Alphonse Legros (1837–1911),
Tate Britain, London

Death and the Maiden, 1895

Death and the Maiden, 1895

“Femmes en Prière.” Tate

Mac Tag

How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. I need this, I need someone to pour myself into. – Sylvia Plath

 

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  1. Satellite A35-S2091 Battery
    06/06/2012 at 6:07 pm Permalink

    If Plath doesn’t come up I won’t be that bothered but if Kavnagh or Kinsella don’t…there will be war.

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