Dear Zazie,
Could not be more pleased to be beginning this year with the one I have longed for. Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Are you askin’ yourself if there can really be a mornin’? Are you askin’ yourself where lies forgiveness? Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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it will dissolve
a touch
the feelin’s
dispersin’
what once was
will others emerge, renew
broken hopes, extinguish
perpetuatin’ flames,
in dream ages
feelin’s form a chain
of what could be
quick take the truth
and make it so
this wanderin’ light
swear at night
where fate plunges
always keep: your dyin’ pleasure
she escapes already
at least you have seen
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see it comin’
clearly
the mornin’
eyes and thoughts
reach for it
a gift of expression
or maybe just
for longin’
above the plain
light comin’ on
there, close
but is there ever
any goin’ back
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This one can be attributed to riffin’ on some poems by Emily Dickinson. The SOD is set to a poem by Dickinson. One of my favorite ED poems is Wild Nights (249). So here is her poem followed by the POD:
Wild Nights – Wild Nights! Were I with thee Wild Nights should be Our luxury Futile – the winds – To a heart in port – Done with the compass – Done with the chart! Rowing in Eden – Ah, the sea! Might I moor – Tonight – In thee!Can There Really be a Mornin’
Too imperceptible at first
Your love lapsed away
A quietness distilled in you
As twilight long spent
Gone our sequestered afternoons
The dusk drawn down on what we had
The mornin’ shone away
A harrowin’ Grace took its place
And thus, your light escaped
Into the beyond
Good mornin’ forever comin’
You got tired of me
How could I of you
But love did not want me
So goodnight love
Can forever last that long
I can look can I not
I can long can I not
When the West is red
From the settin’ sun
These mountains have a way
That pulls the heart across the plains
You are not so far forever,
I chose love, love chose me not
So please take a Cowboy she spurned
Are you not so fair forever
Can there really be a mornin’
Is there such a thing
As forgiveness
Can I see it from the mountains
If I were as tall as they
Can I get there by horseback
Can I take a direct flight
Or must I change planes in Denver
Can it be in some distant land
Or some Renaissance Man, or
Some philosopher from beyond
Please to tell a Cowboy
Where the place called forgiveness lies
Can there really be a mornin’
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The Song of the Day is “Will There Really be a Morning “ – Conspirare written by Craig Hella Johnson
Today is the birthday of Piero di Cosimo (Florence 2 January 1462 – 12 April 1522 Florence), also known as Piero di Lorenzo; painter of the Renaissance.
Perhaps best known for the mythological and allegorical subjects he painted in the late Quattrocento. He is said to have abandoned these to return to religious subjects under the influence of Savonarola, the preacher who exercised influence in Florence in the 1490s. The High Renaissance style of the new century had little influence on him, and he retained the straightforward realism of his figures, which combines with an often whimsical treatment of his subjects to create the distinctive mood of his works.
He trained under Cosimo Rosselli, whose daughter he married, and assisted him in his Sistine Chapel frescos. He was also influenced by Early Netherlandish painting, and busy landscapes feature in many works, often forests seen close at hand. Several of his most striking secular works are in the long “landscape” format used for paintings inset into cassone wedding chests or spalliera headboards or panelling. He was apparently famous for designing the temporary decorations for Carnival and other festivities.
Gallery
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Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, oil on panel painting, c. 1480, 57 x 42 cm, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France
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St. John the Evangelist, oil on panel, 1504-6, Honolulu Museum of Art
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Visitation, with Saints Nicolas and Anthony Abbot, c. 1490
Mac Tag
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