The Lovers’ Chronicle 18 September – untold – art by Anton Mauve

18 September 2023 By Rhett 1 In Jett, Love, Poems, Random, Rhett, Songs

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Have you heard that sigh? Comin’ from yourself? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

together…

well, was gonna say

at last, but that feels

too easy, and yet

not enough

y’all have no idea

what it took

to get here

to feel like this

so on this first night,

a new beginnin’,

cannot imagine

another other way

and now that the tale

can be told, so look

forward to what awaits

the longer i am here,

the more satisfyin’

it becomes and

i find myself

more comfortable

i revel in the clarity

it is touchin’ here,

with delicacy of lines

and verse all around,

and feelin’s never felt

envelopin’ us

do we dare say out loud,

can it now be told,

that we would like to stay

the shadows above
the bodies below
a song and the moan
of the late summer wind

how easily things went
the way not intended
a sigh untold
and there follows,
never the same

but feel not any woe
for the path chosen
it is merely fulfillment
of what was always
meant to be

your languishin’ attitude,
your hand, at each moment
gently touches mine,
confirm the suspicions
your look of dismay
awoke within me

do my charms,
such that they are,
speak to your imagination
an imagination which i suspect
is full of untold passion

i shall leave with the regret
that i understood you too late

beautiful, archin’ your marvellous curves

displayin’ the vision of your body

in my strength, our skin, ours, as with glory

shinin’, the sunlight on your hair

between waves, slip amorously

the great dreamin’, while time goes by

Sigh Too Much

How easily things go wrong
A sigh too much
A sigh not enough
A sigh from the deepest well
A sigh for loneliness to end

A sigh from the emptiest part
A sigh that cannot be borne

A sigh untold

So Jett says Zazie received another picture text from Adele. Seems her love interest told her she deserves more than he can give her now. Jett assures me that Adele is a remarkable woman; bold, bright and beautiful. No doubt she deserves the best of everything, so this guy could be sincere or he could be full of merda. That is a standard line used by players. Either way, I full well know the sting of love lost and we hope that Adele moves on and gives love another chance someday. Sadly, another example of how easily things go wrong.

Anton Mauve

Today is the birthday of Anthonij (Anton) Rudolf Mauve (Zaandam; 18 September 1838 – 5 February 1888 Arnhem); realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings ‘A. Mauve’ or with a monogrammed ‘A.M.’. A master colorist, he was a early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh. Most of Mauve’s work depicts people and animals in outdoor settings. In his Morning Ride in the Rijksmuseum, for example, fashionable equestrians at the seacoast are seen riding away from the viewer. An unconventional detail, horse droppings in the foreground, attests his commitment to realism.

Mauve was married to van Gogh’s cousin Ariëtte (Jet) Sophia Jeannette Carbentus.