The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 September – wherever – art by Alexandre Cabanel

28 September 2023 By Rhett 0 In Love, Poems, Songs

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Do you carry someone’s heart with you wherever you are? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

“I love the way you touch me.”

i was put here for that purpose

“Why do you keep

checking your watch?”

hopin’ i will discover

that time has stopped

desirable, touchable

we are, not forgotten

or passed over

(i have written

an orison for us)

wherever we are

we shall be ours

still, low as can be,
yet thoughts ascend,
in honour of you

were i low or high
with you shall i go
and look upon
the memory
of your eyes
till all else fades

together shine on
(wait, are you sure
this is how it goes)

wherever i am,
wherever you are,

mine shall be yours

i god
so dang wordy
to say what can be said
in three words

as if those words
could be said

once ago
they could be,
and were, frequently
but with no understandin’
of what it meant to be there

ah, just as well
now that twilight is near
may those words rest
wherever they were left

And an old style poem and a song for you, just for you. The Poem of the Day –

Wherever You Are

Were I low as the lowly plain,
And you as high as the stars above,
Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,
Ascend to the stars, in honour of my Love

Were I as high as the stars above the prairie,
And you as low
As the bottom of the sea,
With you my love shall go

Were you the earth and I the skies,
My love should shine on you like the sun,
And look upon you with a thousand eyes
Till the stars went blind and the world were done

Wherever I am, wherever you are,

my heart shall be yours

The Song of the Day – “Wherever You Are” by Terry Ellis.

Alexandre Cabanel
Self-portrait (1852)

Today is the birthday of Alexandre Cabanel (Montpellier; 28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889 Paris); painter. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter.