Poetry & Music

[be_themoon]

So I just realized that whenever I write the Merlin/Narnia commentfic, I'm listening to the same four or five songs. Red by Elbow, Mad Mission by Patty Griffin, and Mad World by Gary Jules. These are now my default Narnia songs, apparently, particularly for Peter. Especially Mad World, for right after PC, when he's just doomed.

ALSO, G. K. CHESTERTON, WUT.

Lepanto has always made me just want to cry because it's so well written and I will probably never write poetry THAT GOOD. But now I'm reading through the rest of his poetry, and OMG A PRAYER FOR DARKNESS.

If I dare snarl between this sun and sod,
Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own,
In sun and rain and fruit in season shown,
The shining silence of the scorn of God.

Gold Leaves is also freakishly beautiful. This is not FAIR.

I'm just going to go read poetry and be content. Maybe write some happy angst. Or just angst. Look, I don't know. I feel weirdly peaceful today half the time, but as soon as someone else walks into the room I go all tense.

I'd really rather just be by myself and write and talk to y'all today.

ETA: HOLY CRAP. LOOK LOOK. HERE. The Myth of Arthur. The last bit, what does it say?

Take comfort; rest--there needs not this ado.
You shall not be a myth, I promise you.

THERE. PETER TO ARTHUR. AWWWW.

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[be-themoon.livejournal.com]

And not only is there his absolutely AWESOME poetry, but he was just pretty cool himself. When a newspaper asked the leading writers of the day to write essays for them on what was the matter with the world, he wrote back in letter form.

Dear sirs,
I am.
Sincerely yours,
G. K. Chesterton.

I snickered. *wisenod*