crack_van | Lieutenant by Lokei (G)

In celebration of Hornblower Appreciation Week, I bring you another Horatio Hornblower rec! My goal is to bring you one or two a day this week, and hopefully, I'll be able to post the winner of the Hornblower Appreciation Week contest at the end of the week. Enjoy!

Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy (?)
Author on LJ:

lokei
Author's website:

lokei's LJ
Why this must be read: Hornblower fandom is known for the diversity of talent in it's creative base.

lokei is no exception. While she normally writes prose and stories, here, she offers up poetry. Beautiful poetry at that, not to mention it's in a sonnet form, and the sonnet is done well. Very well. This from me, a writer of poetry herself -- and one who has never been able to write a decent sonnet without it sounding sing-songy and stupid. *G* This sonnet reads like prose... you don't even realize it rhymes and has a meter until you step back and look at it... and that's a good thing. This again, from an

aos_challenge prompt, "Fair Winds and a Following Sea."

Happy as I to follow, though I go
Now on before you to that veiled shore.
We say it not, but wordless still we know
I wish for you, and you wish for me
The fairest of winds, and a following sea.

Lieutenant