Tag: cowboy coleridge
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 1 June – reasons – birth of Dante Alighieri & John Masefield – art by Maarten van Heemskerck – Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal – photography by George Hurrell – Leonard McCombe
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Good question posed below. What is your main reason for livin’? Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, la sogno nuova… for this one,just pulled a wordout of somethin’Dante wrote“I’m surprised it’s notfrom something in les fleurs”astonished might be closer“Thought I’d give you a break”ha, thanksthis theme does make ita layup to write…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 31 May – a poet’s heartbreak, reprise – verse by Walt Whitman – art by Jules Chéret & Walter Sickert
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. How does your heart break? Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, inspired by Wilde’s “Roses and Rue”“Sadly, no stranger to heartbreak”here is a view on the matteri have not taken“Oh do tell”for the poet,heartbreak does not comein loss, it comes in silenceloss is the lifeblood of poetrysilence, the death,…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 30 May – on my mind – photography by Félix Arnaudin – art by Fernando Amorsolo
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Hope you are well. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, not inspired by the songWillie sang so well“With Willie, always”though it could have beeneven though the very act is impossible“That never stopped a good song”or a bad one“Right”from the day we sat on that downtownDecatur bench to this, i…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 29 May – three words – photography by Doris Ulmann – verse by Alfonsina Storni
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Follow us on Twitter @cowboycoleridge. Hey Z, hope all is well. Jett says hey too. He is well. Busy at work. Dry out here. We could use some rain. Mac Tag is right; those words are hard to say. I do not know about you, but I do not…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 28 May – until now – verse by Thomas Moore – art by Carl Larsson – birth of Ian Fleming, Walker Percy & Maeve Binchy
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Hope you had a good day! Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, with a focus on the word, untilthe song came pretty quick;‘’So tear me open, pour me outThere’s things inside that scream and shoutAnd the pain still hates meSo hold me until it sleeps’’‘’Metallica baby’’the obvious analogy hereis…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 27 May – return – birth of Wild Bill Hickok – art by Georges Rouault – verse by Linda Pastan
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Check us out on Twitter @cowboycoleridge. I hope Mac Tag keeps up the love song of the day. I like it. I also like New Orleans. I have spent some time there with some beautiful women. Somethin’ about those Southern Belles. And I love the Walt Whitman quote below. Rhett The…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 26 May – need – birth of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu – publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula – photography by Dorothea Lange
Dear Zazie, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. Follow us of Twitter @cowboycoleridge. Howzit goin’ Z? Same same here; chores, readin’, writin’, sippin’ some mezcal. Probably have some red wine and a steak later. In other words, the typical life for a solitary cowboy. Be good to yourself. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, i think i have a good oneand the first that…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 25 May – always, reprise – art by Carlo Dolci & Will Barnet – birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louise de Broglie, Theodore Roethke, & Raymond Carver – premiere of The Thin Man
Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, this has to be one of two songs;“Now that my blue days have passed,Now that I’ve found you at last- I’ll be loving you Always”by the great Irving Berlinor this one we know so well, if not the songwriters,Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher, and Mark…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 24 May – la llorona – art by Pontormo & Alexei Savrasov – death of Jane Hyde
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his Muse. Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, have not seen her, nor heard any weepin’there are a myriad of songs that would work“Right, some days we have to search, not today”i think we should go with perhaps the mostbeautifully hauntin’ song ever, by one of our faves;”I was alrightFor awhileI could…
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The Lovers’ Chronicle 23 May – passin’ by – art by Carl Bloch, Amaldus Nielsen, Luis Ricardo Falero, József Rippl-Rónai & Gustaw Gwozdecki – birth of Jane Kenyon
Dear Z, Today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag to his muse. I agree with Mac Tag’s comment at the end. What about you Zazie? Rhett The Lovers’ Chronicle Dear Muse, did not think of a songbut thought of an epitaphand that leads to a poemand then to a book;‘’Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!’’Yeats from his poem, ‘’Under Ben…
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