Dear Zazie,
Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.
Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
not sure of the origin
it began as a fictional
story in 2016
“You like telling stories”
i do, one of the reasons
i enjoy poetry is because
every poem is a micro-story
“Even the ones that appear
to be random words tossed
in a bowl and poured on the page”
ha, yes even those
“So tell me a story”
come lay in my arms
and i will paint for you
with words a place
where we can flourish
and nothin’ else matters
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came here
to recover
to seek
you ask if i will write
and i agree because
it is somethin’
i can do
for you
when it gets darker,
the words seem to float
through the gloamin’
i am not thinkin’ at all
just movin’ the pen,
grabbin’, releasin’ words
continuin’ to heal
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need sleep
but i want to write
one more for you
you have that
and more comin’
to what purpose
to return, when
it was effortless
the strokes sure
confident
when capturin’
color and light
were all that mattered
the way it felt
i know you know
come, shall we go
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an affair of the mind
to be real, it must be
paint as you feel
as you think
instinct, need
so opportunely
purifies
curious, complex
paint, as a way
to understand
feel and it suffices
to inspire
there is but one way
of understandin’
entirely
in the present
an absinthe
whose strength
only the sensual
can stand
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been here a week
this time
came home
to change
to get back
she asks if i will paint
and i agree because
it is somethin’
i can do
she watches,
without speakin’
as i try to capture
the light
when it gets darker,
the paint seems to float
through the gloamin’
i am not thinkin’ at all
just movin’ the brush,
grabbin’ and releasin’ color,
slowly beginnin’ to heal
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Self portrait
Today is the birthday of Maurice de Vlaminck (Paris 4 April 1876 – 11 October 1958 Rueil-la-Gadelière); painter. He is considered one of the principal figures in the Fauve movement, a group of modern artists who from 1904 to 1908 were united in their use of intense colour.
In 1894 he married Suzanne Berly. The turning point in his life was a chance meeting on the train to Paris towards the end of his stint in the army. Vlaminck, then 23, met an aspiring artist, André Derain, with whom he struck up a lifelong friendship. When Vlaminck completed his army service in 1900, the two rented a studio together, the Maison Levanneur, which now houses the Cneai, for a year before Derain left to do his own military service. In 1902 and 1903 he wrote several mildly pornographic novels illustrated by Derain. He painted during the day and earned his livelihood by giving violin lessons and performing with musical bands at night.
He married his second wife, Berthe Combes, with whom he had two daughters.
Gallery
Au bar
The Seine at Chatou, 1906 The Met
Today is the birthday of Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; St. Louis April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014 Winston-Salem); poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
You were a precious pearl
How I loved to see you shine,
You were the perfect girl.
And you were mine.
For a time.
For a time.
Just for a time.
- “Just for a Time”
I have need of a friend.
There is one and only one
who will give the air
from his failing lungs
for my body’s mend.
And that one is my love.
- “Many and More”
Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
A Brave and Startling Truth.
Mac Tag
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