Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
12 Oct 2021
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In 1793, drunk on crépes and smiles (and possibly a little bit of alcohol as well), Crowley sent a stack of pages to a publishing company.
Not too long after that, the first volume of love poetry by up-and-coming writer Antonio Penn hit the printing press.
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It was one of Aziraphale’s gavotte partners at the club in Portland Place who gifted him his first copy of one of Antonio Penn’s anthologies of poetry.
Penn was, of course, far from the first love poet whose works Aziraphale had read… and, indeed, far from the first whose poetry had touched his heart. Still, Aziraphale was not sure he had ever encountered an author whose words resonated quite so deeply.
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- Part 1 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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When the Thought Has Found Words by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
02 May 2025
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It was ten months after the nonapocalypse — the first month and a half having been primarily occupied with processing the fact of the continued existence of the world, the rest spent attempting to work up the nerve he needed — that Aziraphale finally found himself ready to tell Crowley how he felt.
And what better way to go about doing that, after all, than through the words of the one poet whose writing most intimately, accurately, and eloquently expressed the same feelings that Aziraphale himself now wished to convey?
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Crowley stared down at the lines unfurling across the page, eyes tracking words meticulously written in a familiar hand.
Crowley recognized the words he was reading: words of love, and devotion, and an eternity of unending care. He knew those words. Knew their rhythm, their melody, their inspiration. Knew how they felt spoken on his tongue, flowing from his pen, floating in his head and in his heart.
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- Part 2 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Uninvited Heartguest by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
13 Oct 2021
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I don’t know when I told you you could move into my heart
I never gave permission for my soul to split apartI didn’t mean to care for you, I never meant to fall
How did I come to love you? For I cannot quite recall~ ~ ~
Attributed to nineteenth-century poet Antonio Penn.
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- Part 3 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Between Miracles by AnonymousDandelion for julidoesnotwrite (notjuli)
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
27 Oct 2021
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Some speak of the miraculous
They say that that is loveYet miracles are matters
of Below and of Above~ ~ ~
A short, rhyming love poem attributed to nineteenth-century poet Antonio Penn.
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- Part 4 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Reflections on Aching by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
08 Nov 2021
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There
Are times
When I look
At you, my angel
Just across the table
And I cannot help but ache
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A love poem attributed to nineteenth-century poet Antonio Penn. (The pen name of Anthony J. Crowley. Shhh, don't tell Aziraphale.)
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- Part 5 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Neither Violets Nor Roses by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
02 Dec 2021
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You’re salty, not sugar
(Though softer than swords)
You sing out of key
And forget half the wordsAn angel you are,
But a drinker of wine
A bastard of bastards
Is that so divine?~ ~ ~
A short love poem by the great Antonio Penn, to his mysterious love interest.
(Plus a bonus limerick in the end notes.)
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- Part 6 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Your Smile by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
09 Dec 2021
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You smile at books
At crêpes and wine — but sometimes
You smile at meThe stars in your eyes
Sparkle warmer than sunshine
Let me bask in them~ ~ ~
A haiku sequence by Antonio Penn, dated to approximately 1793.
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- Part 7 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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Tell Me, If I Told You by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
15 Dec 2021
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If I said you’re in my dreaming
Both in day and in the night
Though you’d think it unbeseeming
That ‘tis you who are my lightIf I told you all these things
If you could know I’m in your thrall
Would you take me in your wings?
Please tell me, would you let me fall?~ ~ ~
A love poem by eminent nineteenth-century pining poet Antonio Penn.
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- Part 8 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn
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ad infinitum by AnonymousDandelion
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV), Good Omens (Radio)
17 Dec 2021
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across a moment of frozen time
our eyes meet
and hold each other
locked within a breath of eternity
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A visual poem by Antonio Penn (lesser known as Anthony J. Crowley).
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- Part 9 of Stories and Poems of Antonio Penn