The Lovers’ Chronicle 15 February – you – art by Charles-André van Loo

15 February 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,

another that could be
described as searchin’
“Yes you were”
year upon year
will do that to ya
“You know I can relate”
i do and that matters
“Now that our searching
has ended”
in the only place it could have
“Here”
raht here, me entwined,
close to, enraptured,
wrapped up in you

so dark

still so close

to be dead inside

numb

beyond the reach

of any feelin’s

fear, love, pain,

forgiveness,

nothin’ could touch

and to have been there

for years, beyond hope

i knew with a certainty

that i cannot explain,

that i never would again

till you

see, ha! told ya so
i really do dislike
bein’ right all the time
you have no idea
the burden it creates

there is no redemption
there is no forgiveness
you pay and you pay
and say, thank you
may i pay some more
as it damn well should be

never knew what was true
absence indicated as much
apart from myself
where doth lie

ranged far and wide
like a traveler, return again
back to the time, back to the places

you will be

believe, in my nature reigns
this wanderin’ that haunts
that forsakes wherever
carry memories
you, all
this verse
turn again
how able
to tell you of your effect
you, such as never expected

fluctuat nec mergitur
(tossed but not sunk)

which is the greater shame
tryin’ and failin’,
or failin’ to try

ever dance with madness
in the pale moon light
strike up the band y’all

ever ride with madness
in the pale moon light
hold on to the reins y’all

ever done it
and survived
walked away
with your mind
still fairly sound

pull up a chair
and i will tell you
a survivor’s tale

happiness…
how the hell do you figure
i know this,
it is too damn elusive
to spend a life
tryin’ to chase

so do not
find it

buried, denied,
ignored, refused,
shunned, covered up,
and neglected
wants, needs and
desires for so long
not sure if they still exist

random inception inspired verse…

non regrette rien
non, je ne regrette rien
git ready for the kick y’all

do you want to take
a leap of faith
or become an old man
filled with regret
waitin’ to die alone

you know how to find me
you know what you have to do

you remember when…
you said you had a dream
we would grow old together

what are you doin’ here
“Just trying to understand!”
how could you understand

do you know
what it is
to be a lover
to be half
of a whole

you will be lost
you will become old
and filled with regret
waitin’ to die alone

you are waitin’ for a train
a train that will take you
far away
you know where you hope
the train will go,
but you cannot be sure
you git on the train
because it does not matter
where it is goin’
why does it not matter
because we will be together

non regrette rien
non, je ne regrette rien

Today is the birthday of Carle or Charles-André van Loo (Nice; 15 February 1705 – 15 July 1765 Paris); subject painter, son of the painter Louis-Abraham van Loo, a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin. His oeuvre includes every category: religion, history painting, mythology, portraiture, allegory, and genrescenes.

Van Loo followed his brother Jean-Baptiste to Turin, and then to Rome in 1712, where he studied under Benedetto Luti and the sculptor Pierre Le Gros. After leaving Italy in 1723, he worked in Paris, studied at the Académie Royale, where he gained first prize for drawing in 1723, and received the first prize for historical painting in 1727—as did his future rival François Boucher. In 1724 he won the Prix de Rome.

After again visiting Turin in 1727, he was employed by king Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, for whom he painted a series of subjects illustrative of Torquato Tasso. In 1734 he settled in Paris, and in 1735 became a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and rose rapidly in the hierarchy of the academy. Madame de Pompadour and the French court were taking the artist under their patronage.[citation needed] He was decorated with the Order of Saint Michael and named First Painter to king Louis XV of France in 1762. He was a most successful court painter but his portraits as well as history paintings also enjoyed an enormous success throughout all Europe.