The Lovers’ Chronicle 10 June – hold on – art by Gustave Courbet – verse by Edwin Arnold

Dear Zazie,  Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.  Are you holdin’ on?  Rhett

The Lovers’ Chronicle

Dear Muse,

one of the most obvious choices,
written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter,
recorded by Sam & Dave at Stax Studio;
“Just hold on, I’m comin’”
”Because I was”
yes you were, but what took you so long
”Very funny, we got here when we could”
and we both had to hold on
through what life was throwin’ at us
”I guess we both have strong grips”
to what matters we do
and we will be holdin’ on
together where we go

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well versed on this one, sometimes for dear life, what was the motivation, stubbornness or stupidity, helped havin’ a strong constitution, years of weight trainin’ and sprint triathlons will do that to ya, and a high pain tolerance, we were taught to take it and not show it, i excelled, that it paid off, no one is more surprised than i, to be still standin’, not hooked on anything but this, and the reason revealed, i was holdin’ on for you

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if not for you
i would still be
had a firm grip on the reins
wound a little too tight, not
as in high strung, but as in
too rigid, too guarded, too
closed off, just too up tight
still am with everyone
except you, the one
i was holdin’ on for

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Pale Love, Pale Rider

what moments

a future, darlin’,
means just one thing
we are not above it

tell me why it should be so
that only you can move me

once struggled for verse
now the words flow
anything goes

just a soi disant poet,
anyway, this i wrote
for you tonight,

you are everything still

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friends and family…

i will be here,
perhaps sporadically
over the next week
or so

your favorite
soi disant poet
is makin’ a move

stay tuned
you will be with me

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one for Jett…

a year to the day
since she went away
not a stretch to say
barely survived
but still standin’
no more killin’ time
now time for doin’
as should be done…

“But you must care.
You must hold on.”
i told you
never hold on
why hold on
but, dang
you were right

at least partly

the first time
i saw you
i knew…

two people
who believe
above all else

one must be,
to hold the other

once, in the arms,
tell me, tell me

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straightened out the curves
on the road to the winery
one of the things held on for
as the curtain of solitude 
draws down, it is time
to heal

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restless
somethin’ callin’, pullin’…

“But you must care. You must.
You must hold on to something.”
never hold on
why hold on
everything held on to… fades

“The first time I saw you
I knew…”

everything would burn

two people who love
the dream above all else
will soon vanish together

one must be, to hold
the other one
and the pain in bein’;
that is what will be

once, in the arms,
pressed, feelin’, sayin’;
“Tell me. Tell me!”

a song of the sea
a sad day

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Feo, Fuerte y Formal

The strength, not there
Tryin’; but just
cannot get there

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Today is the birthday of Gustave Courbet (Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet; Ornans, Doubs; France 10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877 La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland); painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.  Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists.  His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists.  Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work.  His paintings challenged convention by depicting peasants and workers, often on a grand scale traditionally reserved for paintings of religious or historical subjects.  He also painted landscapes, seascapes, hunting scenes, nudes and still lifes.  He was imprisoned for six months in 1871 for his involvement with the Paris Commune, and lived in exile in Switzerland from 1873 until his death.

During the 1860s, Courbet painted a series of increasingly erotic works such as Femme nue couchée, culminating in The Origin of the World (L’Origine du monde) (1866), which depicts female genitalia and was not publicly exhibited until 1988, and Sleep (1866), featuring two women in bed. The latter painting became the subject of a police report when it was exhibited by a picture dealer in 1872.

Gallery

And Today is the birthday of Edwin Arnold (Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, England 10 June 1832 – 24 March 1904 London); poet and journalist, perhaps best known for his work The Light of Asia.

Sir Edwin was married three times. His first wife was Katherine Elizabeth Biddulph, of London, who died in 1864. Next he married Jennie Channing of Boston, who died in 1889. In his later years Arnold resided for some time in Japan, and his third wife, Tama Kurokawa, was Japanese.

We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.

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thanks for stoppin’ by y’all

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