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The Lovers’ Chronicle 23 April – what light – birth of Shakespeare, Ruggero Leoncavallo & Roy Orbison – photography by Lee Miller

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.  How do you celebrate beauty and the Bard?  Who do you see walkin’ down the street?  I see a pretty woman!  Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, yes, there is this, but soft, what light put on the costume for many years played the part gave what […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 22 April – clingin’ – photography by Laura Gilpin & Max Dupain – birth of Vladimir Nabokov – birth of Bettie Page

Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle from a 2016 poem a micro-story about the one not found “Oh, I thought you said, just a swinging” ha, that is a good song though no, the same ol’ tune and where i took it from there to here what i knew could […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 21 April – distantly – art by Ludovico Carracci & Alfred Henry Maurer – birth of Charlotte Brontë

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this one from a Jimmy Buffett song “I thought it might be in reference to how far away your dreams were” that is one reason the song stuck to me how removed i had become from feelin’ anything, how i […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 20 April – steeped – verse by Pietro Aretino – art by Odilon Redon & Joan Miró

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, “Like a tea bag” ha, no, another origin unknown first used in a 2016 poem “From the melodramatic years” yes well, drama did as drama does “Oh I had that coming” it is an apt verb for any of this […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 19 April – cast thy shadow – art by Willem Drost & Hermine David – verse by José Echegaray – birth of Jayne Mansfield

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this one had to be from somethin’ i was readin’, though that is lost “I can see the drama pulling you in” and today is a perfecto, no not the cigar kind “Ah, that was my first guess” ha! hold […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 18 April – inspire – birth of Lucrezia Borgia – verse by Thomas Middleton – verse by Antero de Quental – art by George Clausen & Max Weber

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle here i draw forth my journal, turn to this page and with pen, after thinkin’ a moment, write these words it is my privilege to have you lookin’ over my shoulder, to have you here to listen i was late comin’ to realize […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 17 April – seven cross – verse by John Ford & Henry Vaughan – art by George Vicat Cole – birth of Karen Blixen & Thornton Wilder

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, a thousand miles away and yet close enough, i can feel the wind there are things that words fail the 40 mile vistas a night sky horizon to horizon full of stars the look in your eyes when you […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 16 April – not with words – art by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun & Ford Madox Brown – verse by Anatole France

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, certainly mostly with “Of course” there are moments when more happens “The way we end our days” yes, our favorite time “After you read poetry to me” words precede, flow through punctuatin’ our time together “From the conjuring” to the […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 15 April – consider – birth of Leonardo da Vinci & Henry James – premiere of Handel’s Serse – art by Thomas Hart Benton

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, these random thoughts -a knock on the door- i did place an order but i did not think anyone was listenin’ need some help no, though i will accept it from you i like to do things when inspired so […]

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The Lovers’ Chronicle 14 April – revelator, reprise- art by Victor Borisov-Musatov – premiere of Delibes’ Lakmé

Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, *tell me who’s that writin’* though not religious “One of the reasons for us” yes, i have always felt a pull to this call “It is powerful” when i write it seems as if someone has come to tell me […]

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