The Lovers’ Chronicle 17 March – survive – art by Mikhail Vrubel

17 March 2024 By Rhett 0 In Random

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day Y’all. We will drink a pint of Guinness to your health!

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Follow us on twitter @cowboycoleridge. Rhett

The Lovers’ Almanac

well, did that obviously
“Certainly glad you did”
we can drama it up
and say it was a close call
but not sure about that
“You could have gone
with, stayin’ alive”
ooh then we could have
disco’d the night away
“All kidding aside”
right, again, we both
endured what we had to
to survive to be here

it is beginnin’, feelin’

look at us pushin’, not too late,

the fine taste of each day’s vision

and that recurrent dream pullin’

a swayin’ dance in the moonlight,

of slippin’ between the cool sheets now

together so effortlessly holdin’ on

curious
what have i learned
from writin’ everyday;

it is the daily grapple
with absurdity

some days it can be
dismissed summarily

other days
it threatens to suffocate
in an overwhelmin’ grip

so that just holdin’ on
is a struggle

every year
without knowin’
passed the days

the last fire has waned
and the search has settled

tireless traveler
at first light
no longer
find myself
surprised
at the one

today writin’
in the sunshine
hearin’ the song
and the fallin’ ease

knealin’
and knowin’ to what

the honor of your attention…
accept this verse,
humbly served

persistence, take a look
many years spent searchin’
for a many splendored thing
many years spent fightin’,
or ignorin’, a nature geared
not for permanence,
but for stoppin’ just long
enough to check the cinch
and jump the fence again

but now, headin’ home, alone
to study the rhyme, the rhythym
to write my songs, to paint,
to try to make
a little sense of it all

sure you could say
what took so long
to which i reply,
hell if i know

my name by you
not yet known

includin’ good and bad,
balance the art of bein’
survive the ire
of time wasted
in the failed search
for any splendored thing

Mikhail Vrubel
At work, 1900s

Today is the birthday of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (Omsk; March 17, 1856 – April 14, 1910 Saint Petersburg); painter of the Symbolist movement and of Art Nouveau. He deliberately stood aloof from contemporary art trends, so that the origin of his unusual manner should be sought in Late Byzantine and Early Renaissance painting.

During 1896, he met the opera singer Nadezhda Zabela. Half a year later they married and settled in Moscow, where Zabela was invited by Mamontov to perform in his private opera theatre. While in Moscow, Vrubel designed stage sets and costumes for his wife, who sang the parts of the Snow Maiden, the Swan Princess, and Princess Volkhova in Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas.

Gallery

Pearl oyster

Demon Seated, 1890. Vrubel considered this demon as “a spirit, not so much evil as suffering and sorrowing, but in all that a powerful spirit… a majestic spirit”.