R/R Poetry of the Night

[cinaed]

What can I say to you? How can I retract
All that that fool, my voice, has spoken
Now that the facts are plain, the placid surface cracked,
The protocols of friendship broken?

I cannot walk by day as now I walk at dawn
Past the still house where you lie sleeping.
May the sun burn these footprints on the lawn
And hold you in its warmth and keeping.

~"Protocols" by Vikram Seth

("Protocols" really feels like a R/R post-Trinity poem to me, where Rodney realizes he's screwed up but hasn't been truly forgiven yet. But that could just be in my head. *grins*)

Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.

~"Encouraged" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

(Um...not sure how to explain my reasoning behind this one. *shrugs and grins*)

Oh, when I was in love with you,
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by,
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.

~"Oh, When I Was in Love With You" by A.E. Housman

(This is a post-relationship R/R to me, where Rodney mellowed out a bit when he and Radek were together, and now that they've broken up, he's back to his old self again.)

Comments

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

You know what needs to be done? An anthology of Rodney/Radek poetry. Five sections: Rodney, Radek, Realization, Mature Relationship, Difficulties/Break-ups and Reconciliations. A short piece. Maybe only 5 poems per section? With short explanations for each poem. And section-title pages that would explain the section and would have some sort of art....
Ooh, if one really wanted to make it a bit larger-- keep all of the above, but add a drabble per poem (in addition to or in replacment of the indvd'l explanations). Or better, a ficlet for each section.

So you'd have:

Title Page
Dedication
ToC
Preface
Section Divider 1: Rodney
Ficlet (Rodney Character Study)
Poems
Etc.

Sorry. Tired. Still. It'd be cool.

[lilyayl.livejournal.com]

The ficlets would of course fit together into one story as a whole. And the poems would comment on, clarify, and elaborate upon that story.

[cinaed.livejournal.com]

That would be really neat. :)