Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. What comes straight from your heart? Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
not from the Frampton song
but that would work
“I want you to show me”
right, none other
spent a lot of time searchin’
the verse was the key, as if,
i was driven to sit down
every day and write
and i wrote all of this
to heal, to find, to be
to get ready for you
to show me the way
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write another
may as well
les bons mots
must be found
rather the process
of puttin’ blue on white
must be followed
no response will be comin’
from this one, as the others
used to wonder what happened
but now, just file it in the drawer
of never to be, never to use
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This comes to you straight……
From The Heart
She opened his latest letter
And looked at the picture enclosed
She read the letter; then again
She looked at the picture and smiled
One of her big beautiful smiles
She instantly missed everything
About him and the time they had
So she sat down and wrote him back
And told him this, and also that
She reads his letters but often
Does not reply because they leave
Her wantin’ to say so much but
Then she cannot find the right words
Because she thinks she could never
Be as clever as him with words
He read this letter that she wrote
And promptly sat down and composed
A one sentence letter to her:
You need never worry whether
Your words are clever or not so;
As long as they come from your heart
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Today is the birthday of David Cox (Birmingham, England; April 1783 – 7 June 1859 Birmingham, England); landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
In my opinion, one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour. He also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career.
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Cox (1830) by William Radclyffe
Night train
A windy day
Today is the birthday of Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906); painter and artist. In my opinion, one of the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His works are one of the best examples of the fusion of European academic art with a purely Indian sensibility and iconography. He was known as the first modern Indian artist. Specially, he was notable for making affordable lithographs of his paintings available to the public, which greatly enhanced his reach and influence as a painter and public figure. His lithographs increased the involvement of common people with fine arts and defined artistic tastes among common people. Furthermore, his religious depictions of Hindu deities and works from Indian epic poetry and Puranas have received profound acclaim. He was part of the royal family of erstwhile Parappanad, Malappuram district.
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Tilottama
Galaxy of Musicians
Today is the birthday of Maya Deren (born Elenora Derenkowskaia, Kiev, April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961 New York City); filmmaker, choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. In my opinion, Deren was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. Here is a still photograph from the experimental 1943 short film Meshes of the Afternoon showing Deren looking out of a window.
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By Alexander hammid
By her husband Alexander hammid
And oday is the birthday of Rod McKuen (Rodney Marvin McKuen; Oakland, April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015 Beverly Hills); singer-songwriter, musician and poet. He produced a wide range of recordings, which included popular music, spoken word poetry, film soundtracks and classical music. He earned two Academy Award nominations and one Pulitzer nomination for his music compositions. McKuen’s translations and adaptations of the songs of Jacques Brel were instrumental in bringing the Belgian songwriter to prominence in the English-speaking world. His poetry deals with themes of love, the natural world and spirituality.
Music to The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968)
- Jean, Jean, roses are red
All the leaves have gone green
And the clouds are so low
You can touch them, and so
Come out to the meadow, Jean.
- Jean, Jean, you’re young and alive
Come out of your half-dreamed dream
And run, if you will, to the top of the hill
Open your arms, bonnie Jean.
- Till the sheep in the valley come home my way
Till the stars fall around me and find me alone
When the sun comes a-singin’ I’ll still be waitin - ‘For Jean, Jean, roses are red
And all of the leaves have gone green
While the hills are ablaze with the moon’s yellow haze
Come into my arms, bonnie Jean.
- Adieu, Francoise, my trusted wife;
Without you I’d have had a lonely life.
You cheated lots of times but then,
I forgave you in the end
Though your lover was my friend. - Adieu, Francoise, it’s hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky.
Now that spring is in the air
With your lovers ev’rywhere,
Just be careful; I’ll be there.- Seasons in the Sun” (1961), as translated from the Jacques Brel song “Le Moribond”· McKuen performance
- We have only love,
to offer as a prayer,
for all the wrongs in the world.
So… like singing troubadours we’ll go,
singing love wherever we go.
- We have only love,
to help us find our way,
as we go out into the world.
So… like laughing children we’ll go
singing love wherever we go.- “Only Love” by Jacques Brel as translated on the album After Midnight (1988)
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29/04/2016 at 6:36 pm Permalink
All words are beautiful when sent from the heart. Touching your soul , connecting the flow. ..
Another beautiful crafted poem