The Lovers’ Chronicle 18 January – per se – art by Aleksandra Ekster

18 January 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. Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

the reward is all

for one so brave

to enter

the pull is strong

and comfortin’

feels more and more

like the best destiny

never gave up, per se

need no longer

neglected

so much to offer

can you hear

i speak to thee

of dreams and desire

and a kiss from a most

constant heart

i seek that i may discover
what it is to feel

blessed
greater pain
sorrow more intense
conscious life
tremblin’

and dreams
form what wants to be

deep enough
no, not yet
deeper still
further in
lie the answers

not else matters
everything
must bow to this

the reward is all
for one so brave
to enter

the pull is strong
and comfortin’
feels more and more
like the best destiny

voices from the past
surround, infuse
so weary, perhaps too
not givin’ up, per se
but need has been
so long neglected

yet, so much to offer
for one
if you can hear
i speak to thee
my heart

by the stars above,
so tired and cold
snow stretches
across the plains
darkness, all can be seen

what did Shakespeare
write of dreams and desire
and a kiss from a most
constant heart

would that but come
chimes at midnight toll
bring respite of a sort
dreams of you

Winter Dream

we will travel by horseback
into the mountains
a warm rendezvous waits
in a cabin in the woods

shut your eyes, to see the dream,
advancin’ shadows of visions,
those swirlin’ memories, a totem spins
realities converge with illusions

then you will feel,
and you will say,
and i will pull you close
and we will take our time
findin’ that place
for those who travel this far…

Today is the birthday of Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster (Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Grigorovich; Białystok, in the Grodno Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Poland) 18 January 1882 – 17 March 1949 Paris suburb of Fontenay-aux-Roses), also known as Alexandra Exter; painter (Cubo-Futurist, Suprematist, Constructivist) and designer of international stature who divided her life between Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vienna, and Paris.

In 1908, she married a successful Kiev lawyer, Nikolai Evgenyevich Ekster. The Eksters belonged to cultural and intellectual elite of Kiev. She spent several months with her husband in Paris, and there she attended Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse. From 1908 to 1924 she intermittently lived in Kiev, St. Petersburg, Odessa, Paris, Rome and Moscow.