The Lovers’ Chronicle 15 July – reverie – art by Rembrandt

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

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

several to choose from, goin’ with;
‘’It’s only me who wants to
Wrap around your dreams’’
’’More Stevie please’’
the only correct response to a song
written by Stevie Nicks, sung by Stevie,
and performed by Fleetwood Mac
‘’Absolutely’’
and the line goes well with us
‘’We’ve been wrapping our dream around each other’’
it is only right that we play it as we feel it
and listen carefully to the sound of together 

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a good place to be
wrapped up, access
limited to what matters

free form, largo
yes, just like that
avec plaisir

where you have
where you will be
constant, steady
now andante please

not another other
takin’ it forward,
plus what comes
allegro, now

hold for the break
yes, as we like

a new dance
mergin’ what only
existed in daydreams
with reality

a steady stream of you
a flow, pulsin’ delivers
exactly what will be
to continue

find the ways
to put into words
the essential nature
of the woven texture
of our time together

que refrain,
adagio my dear

Pale Love, Pale Rider

dancin’ the same dance

lookin’ out portholes
suvivin’ storms, pluggin’ holes
and catchin’ glimpses
of the sunrise

keep lookin’, keep hopin’
nothin’ more sacred,
than a woman’s heart

yours, more so than most

will you ever know again,
my wish on the wind
is that you will

that i am diligently
engaged in pursuin’
three passions

of the three, one
has been completed,
as a token of my readiness
to serve you with my favor,
i cannot refrain from presentin’
you, my verse, i trust that you
will accept it and my devotion

i shall find, day by day,
in all thoughts and things,
the heart of friendship

outside of you,
what matters

from the first glance,
remain forever

were there some way
to put into words
the essential nature
of the woven texture
of our time together

an uninterrupted stream of you
a flow never ceasin’,
and the quaverin’
continues

when we danced,
‘neath the High Plains stars,
i remember, i remember
how those days fleeted by

and sleep
will not come
for i fancy
those long ago
embraces

Screen porch status, broken bow

Somewhere: A woman
goes about her way
All day, in the slow
surrender of hope,
I think of her and
remember it all

All of her; her smile,
her eyes, the curve of
her hip, her fiery
wit. All of her. I
remember her all

Whatever else my
life is, with it’s books
and it’s words and it’s
wide open spaces,
it is this as well;
missin’ this woman

Today is the birthday of Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn; Leiden, Dutch Republic 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669 Amsterdam); painter and etcher. In my opinion, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting was prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting.In 1634, Rembrandt married Saskia van Uylenburgh. They were married in the local church of St. Annaparochie without the presence of Rembrandt’s relatives. Saskia died in 1642 probably from tuberculosis. Rembrandt’s drawings of her on her sick and death bed are among his most moving works. During Saskia’s illness, Geertje Dircx was hired as caretaker and nurse and also became Rembrandt’s lover. She would later charge Rembrandt with breach of promise (a euphemism for seduction under [breached] promise to marry) and was awarded alimony. Rembrandt worked to have her committed for twelve years to an asylum or poorhouse (called a “bridewell”) at Gouda, after learning she had pawned jewelry that had once belonged to Saskia and that he had given to her.

Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar (1659), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

In the late 1640s Rembrandt began a relationship with the much younger Hendrickje Stoffels, who had initially been his maid. In 1654 they had a daughter. Hendrickje received a summons from the Reformed Church to answer the charge “that she had committed the acts of a whore with Rembrandt the painter”. She admitted this and was banned from receiving communion. Rembrandt was not summoned to appear for the Church council because he was not a member of the Reformed Church. The two were considered legally wed under common law.

Rembrandt was buried as a poor man in an unknown grave in the Westerkerk. It was in a numbered ‘kerkgraf’ (grave owned by the church) somewhere under a tombstone in the church. After twenty years, his remains were taken away and destroyed, as was customary with the remains of poor people at that time.