My brother, Christopher, is getting married in July and I've been asked to write a poem that I will recite also at the reception. It will be a near formal occasion so I was thinking of writing a sonnet. Are there any great wedding poems out there? This is the best I could find so far.
A Bridal Song
OMFORTS lasting, loves increasing,John Ford
The First Marriage
ReplyDeleteby Peter Meinke
for Gretchen and Herb: June 15, 1991
imagine the very first marriage a girl
and boy trembling with some inchoate
need for ceremony a desire for witness:
inventing formality like a wheel or a hoe
in a lost language in a clearing too far from here
a prophet or a prophetess intoned to the lovers
who knelt with their hearts cresting
like the unnamed ocean thinking This is true
thinking they will never be alone again
though planets slip their tracks and fish
desert the sea repeating those magic sounds
meaning I do on this stone below
this tree before these friends yes in body
and word my darkdream my sunsong yes I do I do
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