The Lovers’ Almanac 18 October – remind me – art by Luca Giordano

18 October 2023 By Rhett 0 In Love, Poems, Random, Songs

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Whose shadow do you chase? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

not denied,

only delayed…

yes, the thrill returnin’,

that lettin’ go feelin’,

though gone so long

with you

words that for years

had no meanin’

of a sudden

awaken

it is not a dream,

we are right here

all that matters

is havin’ this, explorin’

together we can be

not denied,
only delayed…

yes, the thrill
i recall
that lettin’ go feelin’,
where fear disappears

i remember
everything with you
words that for years
had no meanin’
of a sudden
awoke
with you

but it was like a dream,
was it not
we were right there
and then i was gone

it is temptin’
to wallow in the darkness
of the years that followed
but to what avail
for the tale you already know
of madness and near death

no, all that matters
is that we are still standin’
and all that came before
is just a reminder
how lucky we are

and all that was denied
has only been delayed

tryin’ to fight off
some negative vibes
messin’ with my creativity

tell me somethin’ good
anything
hell, make it up
if you have to

remind me
how much i enjoyed
sketchin’ your hands
how i loved
takin’ photos of you

remind me
how good your smile
made me feel
how you could always
make me laugh

remind me
that you are there

My apologies in advance for this one takin’ kind of a dark turn. But I go where the words take me and sometimes they take me to a dark place. The Poem of the Day:

Chasin’ Your Shadow

What a thrill runs through me
With you I feel powerless
And my fears disappear
I cannot control myself
You are the guardian of my faith
With you happiness has come

Your love revived my courage,
And my heart, no longer huntin’
Again, it is you
That revived my faith
Pour yourself into me
I await my fill

But if tomorrow
I wake from this dream
This thought freezes my blood
What will I in this darkness
Do, in death and groans
Centuries will fill my bones

Where time, all bloody of Her injury,
Beside me in the dark night
My hand meets Her hand
What is this breakaway shadow of death
This is Time… She calls me
She wants me to come Her way

Aside my torment
And Her fatal words
Disappear, come not this way
Dissipate up, fatal dream
The dawn of happiness rises
The shadow of you… Come

The Song of the Day is “Chasing a Shadow” by Charlotte Martin. The sound quality is not that great but the song is.

Today is the birthday of Luca Giordano (Naples 18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705 Naples); late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain.

After his return to Naples early in 1702, Giordano continued to paint prolifically. Executed in a lighter, less rhetorical style, these late works, prefiguring Rococo, proved influential throughout the eighteenth century, and were admired by Fragonard.

He spent large sums in acts of munificence, and was particularly liberal to poorer artists. One of his maxims was that the good painter is the one whom the public like, and that the public are attracted more by colour than by design.

Giordano had an astonishing facility, which often lead to an impression of superficiality of his works. He left many works in Rome, and far more in Naples. Of the latter, his Christ expelling the Traders from the Temple in the church of the Padri Girolamini, a colossal work, full of expressive “lazzaroni” or beggars from Naples; also the frescoes of the Triumph of Judith at San Martino, and those in the Tesoro della Certosa, including the subject of Moses and the Brazen Serpent; and the cupola paintings in the Church of Santa Brigida. This church contains the artist’s own tomb. Other notable examples are the Judgment of Paris in the Berlin Museum, and Christ with the Doctors in the Temple, in the Corsini Gallery of Rome. In later years, he painted influential frescoes for the Cappella Corsini, the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi and other works.

Sources differ as to whether he died on 3 January or 12 January 1705.

Gallery

Ariane abandonnée

The rape of lucretia

Venus and Mars, ca. 1670s

Demokrit, 1690, Hamburger Kunsthalle

Resurrection, after 1665, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg

Dream of Solomon, ca. 1694–1695

St. Michael, ca. 1663, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The Adoration of the Magi
The creation of man, 1684–1686, fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence
Triumph of Judith, Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Triumph of the Medici in the clouds of Mount Olympus, 1684–1686, fresco in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi
Mars and Venus with Cupid, 1663, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples