The Lovers’ Chronicle 4 February – try – art by Władysław Podkowiński & Fernand Léger – verse by Jacques Prévert

04 February 2024 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. What do you like about the one who stirs you? Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

here is here

and stayin’

two lovers

two survivors

entwined and spared

we are not over

and we can never

disappoint

what happens

is as clear as can be

and it is yours and mine

it is such a wonder

the stuff of dreams

here tryin’ is all

holdin’ on to you

against the stillness

dream a little dream

so yes,

the word was said

“Every time you come,

I fall more and more.”

two lovers

two survivors tryin’

entwined

stronger

more so,

wiser

as clear as day,

simple as hey there

hand in hand,

it is yours and mine

the sweetest sleep

the fairest dreams

and yes, i do

we can try
standin’ in the sun
in the wind
in sleep and dream

two lovers
two survivors
entwined and spared

you are not over
and you can never
disappoint

what happens
is as clear as can be
and it is yours and mine

there was there
but stayin’ was not
sometimes,
it was so pretty
the stuff
of moons and suns
then faults and mistakes
this is how i write
the tryin’ is all
if only to try again
anything
against the stillness
of the heart

This was inspired by you. Hope you like……

Do I Like…

As is the case with her,
She swept into the room
And the light and everything
That mattered was drawn to her
Nothin’ she did consciously
Just the way it was with her
She had a new hairdo and she asked,
‘Do you like my hair? ‘

Do I like your hair?
Do I like to breathe?
Do I like to eat steak?
Do I like dark beer and red wine?
Do I like cornbread and iced tea?
Do I like all kinds of coffee and dark chocolate?
Do I like a good rope and a fine horse?
Do I like Luchese boots and Texas Hatters cowboy hats?
Do I like to dream?
Do I like starry nights?
Do I like dancin’ by moonlight?
Do I like romancin’ by candlelight?
Do I like to read and write and ruminate?
Do I like long walks in the rain?
Do I like to watch the sun rise and set?
Do I like thunderstorms and cool mountain mornins?
Do I like snowy days spent in front of the fireplace?
Do I like Elvis and Hank and Frank?
Do I like Clint and Duke and Duvall?
Do I like Woodrow and Gus and Ethan?
Do I like Mozart and Millay and Monet?
Do I like Audrey and Sophia and Vivien?
Do I like Rhett and Scarlett and Stella?
Do I like Italian opera and French poetry?
Do I like Van Gogh and Van Morrison and Van Halen?
Do I like Shakespeare and Hemingway and Tennessee?

Do I like your hair?
Do I like your fill-in-the-blank?
I like your anything and everything
That is what I like about you

Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger, c. 1916

Today is the birthday of Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (Argentan, Orne; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955 Gif-sur-Yvette); painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style. His boldly simplified treatment of modern subject matter has caused him to be regarded as a forerunner of pop art.

In December 1919 he married Jeanne-Augustine Lohy, and in 1920 he met Le Corbusier, who would remain a lifelong friend.

After the death of his wife in 1950, Léger married Nadia Khodossevitch in 1952. In 1954 he began a project for a mosaic for the São Paulo Opera, which he would not live to finish. Léger died at his home in 1955 and is buried in Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne.

Gallery

composition avec trois femmes

composition avec deux perroquets

Nudes in the forest (Nus dans la forêt), 1910, oil on canvas, 120 x 170 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Les Fumeurs (The Smokers), 1911-12, oil on canvas, 129.2 x 96.5 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

La Femme en Bleu (Woman in Blue), 1912, oil on canvas, 193 x 129.9 cm, Kunstmuseum Basel. Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d’Automne, Paris

Nude Model in the Studio (Le modèle nu dans l’atelier), 1912-13, oil on burlap, 128.6 x 95.9 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1916, Soldier with a pipe (Le Soldat à la Pipe), oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dùsseldorf

Still Life with a Beer Mug, 1921, oil on canvas, Tate, London

Le compotier (Table and Fruit), 1910–11, oil on canvas, 82.2 x 97.8 cm, Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Reproduced in Du “Cubisme”, 1912
Les Toits de Paris (Roofs in Paris, 1911, oil on canvas, private collection. Reproduced in Du “Cubisme”, 1912
Paysage (Landscape), 1912–13, oil on canvas, 92 x 81 cm
Contrast of Forms (Contraste de formes), 1913. Published in Der Sturm, 5 September 1920
Nature morte (Still life), 1914
Dans L’Usine, 1918, oil on canvas, 56 x 38 cm
The City (La ville), 1919, oil on canvas, 231.1 x 298.4 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Railway Crossing, 1919, oil on canvas, 54.1 x 65.7 cm, Art Institute of Chicago
Grand parade with red background, 1958 (designed in 1953), mosaic, National Gallery of Victoria

Jacques Prévert
Jacques Prévert in 1961

Today is the birthday of Jacques Prévert (Neuilly-sur-Seine; 4 February 1900 – 11 April 1977 Omonville-la-Petite); poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain popular in the French-speaking world. His best regarded films formed part of the poetic realist movement, and include Les Enfants du Paradis (1945).

Verse

Paroles (1945)

Notre Père qui êtes aux cieux
Restez-y
Et nous nous resterons sur la terre
Qui est quelque fois si jolie

Paroles, Jacques Prévert, éd. Pléiade Gallimard, 1992, Pater noster, p. 40

De deux choses lune
l’autre c’est le soleil

Paroles, Jacques Prévert, éd. Gallimard, 1949, Le paysage changeur, p. 87

Histoires (1946)

C’est ma faute
C’est ma faute
C’est ma très grande faute d’orthographe
Voilà comment j’écris
Giraffe

Histoires, Jacques Prévert, éd. Folio Gallimard, 1963, Mea culpa, p. 83

Spectacle (1951)

Il faudrait essayer d’être heureux, ne serait-ce que pour donner l’exemple.

Spectacle, Jacques Prévert, éd. Pléiade Gallimard, 1992, Intermède, p. 378

Une pluie de larmes ne peut rien contre la sécheresse du cœur…
Pas plus que l’eau dans le vin pour en ranimer le bouquet.

Spectacle, Jacques Prévert, éd. Pléiade Gallimard, 1992, Intermède, p. 381

Arbres (1976)

arbres
         chevaux sauvages et sages
à la crinière verte
au grand galop discret
         dans le vent vous piaffez
debout dans le soleil vous dormez
                              et rêvez

Arbres, Jacques Prévert, éd. Gallimard, 1976, p. 7

Jadis
les arbres
étaient des gens comme nous

Mais plus solides
plus heureux
plus amoureux peut-être
plus sages

C’est tout.

Arbres, Jacques Prévert, éd. Gallimard, 1976, p. 39

qu’ils déboisaient déboisaient
déboisaient
on a trouvé qu’ils abusaient

Bien sûr la fin des arbres
ou la fin de la terre
c’est pas la fin du monde
mais tout de même on s’était habitué
[…]
Autrefois les bûcherons
avaient des égards pour les arbres
autrefois les bûcherons
buvaient à leur santé

Arbres, Jacques Prévert, éd. Gallimard, 1976, p. 58

deux amoureux humains
deux rescapés
s’approchèrent d’un peuplier
sur son cœur ils gravèrent
leurs cœurs et leurs noms enlacés
et furent épargnés.

Arbres, Jacques Prévert, éd. Gallimard, 1976, p. 69

Citations pêle-mêle

L’amour est clair comme le jour, l’amour est simple comme bonjour, l’amour est un comme la main, c’est ton amour et le mien…

« Saint-Valentin – Amour, toujours – Citations », Jacques Prévert, Direct Soir, nº 700, Vendredi 12 février 2010, p. 9

Mac Tag

The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams

That ever enter’d in a drowsy head,

Have I since your departure had

– Shakespeare

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