Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Any big plans for the 4th Z? I will be in my hometown for the 4th of July Rodeo and Parade. See if I cain’t find me a pretty cowgirl to do some two-steppin’ with. Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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no secret
it is rather simple…
you can only see
once you let go,
after you have come
to own your ownself
only then
will the essentials
become visible
what embellishes
the desert, a sunset
you know
you feel
you have to look
you have to be
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A few interestin’ day in history items to share with you, dearest muse.
On this day in 1900, aristocratic French writer, poet, pioneering aviator, and author of The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) (1943), Saint-Ex, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in Lyon, France. Saint-Ex had a muse, his wife though they had a tumultuous marriage.
She was Consuelo Suncin (née Suncín Sandoval), a twice-widowed Salvadoran countess, writer and artist, who reportedly possessed a bohemian spirit and a “viper’s tongue”. Saint-Ex, thoroughly enchanted by the diminutive woman, would leave and then return to her many times –she was both his muse and over the long term the source of much of his angst. Saint-Ex travelled frequently and indulged in numerous affairs, most notably with the Frenchwoman Hélène de Vogüé (1908–2003), known as ‘Nellie’ and referred to as “Madame de B.” in Saint-Ex biographies.
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Ce qui embellit le désert, dit le petit prince, c’est qu’il cache un puits quelque part…
J’aime bien les couchers de soleil. Allons voir un coucher de soleil…
C’est véritablement utile puisque c’est joli.
Vous êtes belles, mais vous êtes vides…. On ne peut pas mourir pour vous.
Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.
Beware the 29th of June if you are a beautiful woman as at least four famous beautiful women, a poet and three actresses, died on this day; Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1861), Jayne Mansfield (1967), Lana Turner (1995), and Katharine Hepburn (2003).
Browning is famous for her poetry as well as her marriage to fellow poet Robert Browning. I never tire of tellin’ this story so here goes. They met on 20 May 1845, and so began one of the most famous courtships in literature. Two of Barrett’s most famous pieces were produced after she met Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (Portuguese was his pet name for her) and Aurora Leigh. Robert’s Men and Women is a product of that time. The courtship and marriage between Robert and Elizabeth were carried out secretly as she and her siblings were convinced their father would disapprove. Six years his elder and an invalid, she could not believe that the vigorous and worldly Robert really loved her as much as he professed to. After a private marriage at St. Marylebone Parish Church, they honeymooned in Paris. Browning then imitated his hero Percy Bysshe Shelley by spiriting his wife off to Italy, in September 1846, which became her home almost continuously until her death. She died in Rome in his arms at the age of 55. Robert said that she died “smilingly, happily, and with a face like a girl’s. … Her last word was—… ‘Beautiful’”. We should all be so lucky.
Mac Tag
Today’s Song of the Day Townes Van Zandt – Lover’s Lullaby http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSIp2dGxeqY&feature=related
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
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