The Lovers’ Chronicle 13 September – what time is love – photography by Édouard Boubat – song by Bret Mosley

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse.  Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge.  Has it ever been time for love for you?  Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

what time is it
comin’ into focus
with purpose
just had to learn
to trust this vision
to understand at last
determination now,
to share the stories,
the verse, the art
the feelin’s
to make it all matter
it is a fine question
is the answer now
has it come for us

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away with fictions,
tissues of never-could-be
so, yes, this is sauce
for the gander…
what were you so
afraid of
you said you just
wanted to let go,
to feel alive
and then we were there
ready to fall and fly
but you left
why
you can never understand
what was denied us

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what time is it

marked by confusion,
almost always,
without apparent purpose

just had to learn
to trust this vision
to understand at last

determination now,
to give the stories,
the songs, the art
some kinda form

to make it all matter

the time is now

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a fine evenin’
a walk without
any definite purpose
a trail that loses itself
at the gate of a cemetery
near the edge of a mesa

buffalo grass, metal angel statue,
granite tombs, rocks, wind,
and a forty mile view
surroundin’ us on all sides

we sit on a tomb
and there, seated
in the dyin’ sunlight,
while the valley
and plains below
git lost in shadow,
we talk together

the pure air playin’ round us,
the magnificent landscape
beneath our feet
impart serenity
to thoughts

we stay up there late
talkin’ of what matters…
of beauty and sorrow
and as of old, we talk
of partin’,

may it never happen

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Bret you are right
it is a fine question
one i asked regularly
for about 40 years

on more than one
occasion, i thought
it was time, but no

reckon it was not
the right question,
for me anyhow

now i am asked out
and i just wanna
spin some vinyl,
and spin the totem

may it never wobble

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 Never so pretty
as in the mornin’
Awakened fresh with
the world every day
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Édouard Boubat
Edouard Boubat 1943.jpg

Boubat in 1943

Today is the birthday of Édouard Boubat (born Montmartre, Paris 13 September, 1923 – died Paris 30 June 1999); photojournalist and art photographer.

He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed the horrors of World War II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled the world for the French magazine Réalités, where his colleague was Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a “peace correspondent” as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects. His son Bernard Boubat is also a photographer.

Gallery

les amoureux

les amoureux

Lella, Bretagne, 1947.
Les amoureux de Paris III, 1962

Les amoureux de Paris III, 1962

For the song of the day we turn once again to our friend Bret Mosley (Bretmosley.com) and his song Lawrence KS, in which you find the question of the day.

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