Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, one of the ones born of tradin’ words with Bret “Y’all used to do that a lot” back when we did not have lives the phrase fairly describes where i was compared to where i had been “And now […]
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 6 April – memories – Petrarch & Laura – art by Gustave Moreau, Arthur Wesley Dow, & Jeanne Hébuterne
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, no not from Streisand and it is not the way we were but rather the way we are “That’s right baby” today is the day Haggard died and i wrote song lyrics in 2013 inspired by his music “A […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 5 April – comin’ slowly – art by Jean-Honoré Fragonard & Jules Dupré – photography by Nadar – verse by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle the line was first used in my 2018 poem, inspired by somethin’ Swinburne wrote no doubt “He was a drama queen” had to be, he reveled in shockin’ his Victorian audiences “With his hair or poetry” ha, both maybe that explains my […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 April – paintin’ – art by Maurice de Vlaminck – verse by Maya Angelou
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 […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 3 April – plains’s song – verse by George Herbert – birth of Anne Lister & Mistinguett – photography by Francesca Woodman
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, not a river runnin’ through it “Oh I see where you’re going” yes indeed, music pulses through, the lifeblood, definin’ these feelin’s and emotions “My life has certainly been defined by musical stages” your beautiful voice is one of […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 2 April – of you – birth of Casanova – art by William Holman Hunt – art and verse by Max Ernst
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, another of uncertain origin for the one not found “Well, at that point” oh yes, that was pre-you “I thought you were going to say, it was about a girl” they are all about a girl from the one not […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 1 April – three a.m. thoughts – verse by John Wilmot – birth of Abbé Prévost & Edmond Rostand – art by Edwin Austin Abbey
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle that happened often back then “I thought it was from personal experience” yes, not fiction sadly also had Escovedo’s ”Pissed Off 2 A.M.” playin’ in my head i was the walkin’ definition of fatigue “Not anymore my dear” no, so now if […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 31 March – enough – verse by Andrew Marvell & Octavio Paz – art by Jules Pascin
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, to be found, sound the echoin’ song of these days the long denied within reach proven to be not too far away now turn to ashes all that came before for this a fine and private place, to embrace, herein […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 30 March – Pinturas negras – art by Francisco Goya & Vincent Van Gogh – verse by Verlaine
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. This is one of our favorite days in TLC. Beauty and sorrow, our two favorite topics, were never done better than by the trio of today’s birthday boys. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, that you understand certainly one reason there are many […]
The Lovers’ Chronicle 29 March – words that stir – art by Adolfo Müller-Ury & Dora Carrington – verse by R. S. Thomas
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle. Rhett Dear Muse, this came from the letter Carrington wrote to Lytton Strachey “Lovely and heart breaking at the same time” if those words do not move you “Then you might need to have your pulse checked” right, and i thought, this is it there can be no […]
