The Lovers’ Chronicle 22 September – the words – art by Čiurlionis

22 September 2023 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,

well, yes certain

but how was i

to account for you

relish the thoughts

with you, bein’

ourselves

no pretense

stripped of anything

other than what we are

lettin’ go feels so good

when i pulled you

towards me,

clothes hittin’ the floor

and the look in your eyes

more please

what has been denied
has only been delayed

“But how can you be
so sure?”
there are a host
of reasons
why it must be so

and i will not
let it be otherwise
…

she knelt in the dirt
in her garden
and wept,
cryin’ out
at how life had denied her

then he came along
and took her hand
and helped her up
and said,

what has been denied
has only been delayed

i was right there
i tasted the wine
i made love to her
i sat in the cafe
that mornin’
wonderin’
what the future held

or if it held
anything at all

i heard the cry
and i felt the longin’

it was all in her letter
funny thing is,
she left it
on the bedside table
and i was home all day
and never saw it

never saw it
until i went to bed
perhaps i had seen it
but had convinced
myself it was not there
because i knew
what was in it

i did not want to read it
i held it and paced
around the house
i drank and drank some more
i waited outside for her
but she did not come

i stayed up all night
and just as first light appeared
from the depths of despair,
from somewhere,
the words started comin’
and would not stop

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Today is the birthday of Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (Stare Orany, Vilna Governorate; 22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1875 –10 April [O.S. 28 March] 1911 Marki, Congress Poland); painter, composer and writer. One of the pioneers of abstract art in Europe. During his short life he composed about 400 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings, as well as many literary works and poems. The majority of his paintings are housed in the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. His works have had a profound influence on modern Lithuanian culture.

In 1907 he became acquainted with Sofija Kymantaitė (1886–1958), an art critic. Early in 1909 he married Sofija. On Christmas Eve Čiurlionis fell into a profound depression and at the beginning of 1910 was hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital “Czerwony Dwór” (Red Manor) in Marki, Poland, northeast of Warsaw. While a patient there he died of pneumonia in 1911 at 35 years of age. He was buried at the Rasos Cemetery in Vilnius.