The Lovers’ Chronicle 27 January – embers, reprise no. 1 – art by Samuel Palmer, Arkhip Kuindzhi & John Collier

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,

dream desire…
beside a campfire somewhere on the High Plains, cloudless full moon night, he has a conversation with a faceless spirit;
How long was the journey
many miles and years
Were the sacrifices great
yes they were
What kept you holding on
at first books and music, writin’ came later
Will you come with me now
no i must return to her
The one with the red hair
yes
Your best, last desire
yes
I will be back
i know, do not let the embers die

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not sure there is a song for embers,
but it is an analogy for desire so,
the first song that came to me
was U2, though it is a dark song
“And we have no darkness”
but plenty of fire
not sure if savin’ it up fanned the flames
or if anything can be said for absence
makin’ the rekindled heart burn hotter
“Can we get back to those embers now”
absolutely

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this originated from the analogy of dyin’ desire, what had faded to the point of questionin’ if resurrection were possible; spoiler alert, we know now it was not dead, just required the right one to fan the coals back to life, shows the power of belief, as long as there is a pulse the embers can glow again

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feel you close to me
closer, with each poem,
with each conversation,
with each passin’ day

no denyin’, this rekindlin’,
desire unbound, all over tremblin,
achin’, pullin’ us under and yes
we want this, these hot embers
to give in
and let it take us
wherever it will

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Pale Love, Pale Rider

reserved
well yes,
the way out
is further in
just like i thought

all it will take, lookin’
at what is right here
in front of us

feel you close to me
closer, with each poem,
with each conversation,
with each passin’ day

will you come join me
beside the glowin’ embers

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is the way out
further in

so easy
to just stay

but then i remember
how you looked that day

hear the melody
the essence
stay with me
you must see

all i ask is that you show
you are not afraid

i will ride ahead
and light the fire

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dark days for sure,
one year ago
not easy facin’ up
to dyin’ embers
dyin’ hell,
more like
damn near dead

but that was five months before
what was not thought possible
finally happened
then, i never thought about quittin’
reckon that proves i still believed

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remember so well,
beside the dyin’ embers…

horses tethered nearby
campfire crackles
blanket of stars above
two joined as one
in a passion, unlike
anything they have ever known

ah, who am i kiddin’
what the hell good
does it do to remember
somethin’ that cannot be had

***

how are you doin’
“afraid I’m on my way out”
we are all on our way out
act accordin’ly

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I know what I used to be
before I saw you across the lobby
I remember I saw you look at me
and you smiled… and I believed

just your lookin’ eyes
and me makin’ my way towards you
that was all there was, to git to you

then I said hello and you spoke
and that was it… since then
all of everything is for you

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Life is about
Pace and findin’
The right outlet:
Either in love
Or poetry
Or in drinkin’
Heavily. Or
Some variant
Of the above

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Today is the birthday of Samuel Palmer (London 27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881 Redhill, Surrey, England); landscape painter, etcher and printmaker.  He was also a prolific writer.  Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

Palmer fell in love with the fourteen-year-old Hannah Linnell, whom he later married.

Gallery

Today is the birthday of Arkhip Kuindzhi (Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi or Kuinji; Mariupol, Ukraine; January 27, 1842(?) – July 24, 1910 St. Petersburg); landscape painter.

Gallery

And today is the birthday of John Collier (John Maler Collier; Paddington, Middlesex, England 27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934 North House, Eton Avenue, London); artist and author.  He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.  He studied painting at the Munich Academy where he enrolled on 14 April 1875 at the age of 25.

by Marion Collier (nÈe Huxley), oil on canvas, 1882-83

In due course, Collier became an integral part of the family of Thomas Henry Huxley PC, President of the Royal Society from 1883 to 1885. Collier married two of Huxley’s daughters. Collier’s first wife, in 1879, was Marian (Mady) Huxley.  She was a painter who studied, like her husband, at the Slade and exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.  After the birth of their only child, a daughter, she suffered severe post-natal depression and was taken to Paris for treatment where, however, she contracted pneumonia and died in 1887.

In 1889 Collier married Mady’s younger sister Ethel Huxley.  Until the Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act 1907 such a marriage was not possible in England, so the ceremony took place in Norway.

Gallery 

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