The Lovers’ Chronicle 27 January – embers – art by Samuel Palmer, Arkhip Kuindzhi & John Collier

27 January 2024 By Rhett 0 In Random

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

feel you close to me

closer, with each poem,

with each conversation,

with each passin’ day

no denyin’,

this rekindlin’,

desire unbound,

all over tremblin,

achin’, pullin’ us

under and yes

we want this,

to give in

and let it take us

wherever it will

well yes,

the way out

is further in

just like i thought

all it will take, lookin’

at what is right here

in front of us

feel you close to me

closer, with each poem,

with each conversation,

with each passin’ day

will you come join me

beside the glowin’ embers

is the way out
further in

so easy
to just stay

but then i remember
how you looked that day

hear the melody
the essence
stay with me
you must see

all i ask is that you show
you are not afraid

i will ride ahead
and light the fire

Pale Love, Pale Rider

dark days for sure,
one year ago
not easy facin’ up
to dyin’ embers
dyin’ hell,
more like
damn near dead

but that was five months before
what was not thought possible
finally happened
then, i never thought about quittin’
reckon that proves i still had hope

remember so well,
beside the dyin’ embers…

horses tethered nearby
campfire crackles
blanket of stars above
two joined as one
in a passion, unlike
anything they have ever known

ah, who am i kiddin’
what the hell good
does it do to remember
somethin’ that cannot be had

Samuel Palmer
Self portrait, circa 1826

Today is the birthday of Samuel Palmer (London 27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881 Redhill, Surrey); landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Palmer fell in love with the fourteen-year-old Hannah Linnell, whom he later married.

Gallery

“The Rising of the Skylark”

Garden in Shoreham. 1820s or early 1830s.

A Cornfield by Moonlight with the Evening Star c.1830

A Dream in the Apennine (c.1864)

Arkhip Kuindzhi
Portrait of Kuindzhi by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1869

Today is the birthday of Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (or Kuinji; Mariupol January 27, 1842(?) – July 24, 1910 St. Petersburg); landscape painter.

Gallery

Winter

Lake Ladoga (1873)
The birch grove (1879)
Dnepr in the morning (1881)
Night on the Dnepr (1880)
Surf and Clouds (1882)
Elbrus (1890–1895)
Evening in Ukraine (1878–1901)
Moonspots in the Forest, Winter (1898–1908)

by Marion Collier (nÈe Huxley), oil on canvas, 1882-83

Today is the birthday of John Maler Collier (27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934); artist, and an author. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation. Both his marriages were to daughters of Thomas Henry Huxley. He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25.

In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, President of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. Collier married two of Huxley’s daughters. Collier’s first wife, in 1879, was Marian (Mady) Huxley. She was a painter who studied, like her husband, at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. After the birth of their only child, a daughter, she suffered severe post-natal depression and was taken to Paris for treatment where, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in 1887.

In 1889 Collier married Mady’s younger sister Ethel Huxley. Until the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway.