wedding poems
Jun. 25th, 2008 04:30 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
I'm looking for a poem to read/write in a card for my friend who is getting married. I'm having no luck finding something that isn't incredibly, disgustingly romantic. I don't want anything overly sentimental, because we've grown apart in the last couple of years since college. I'd just like a nice kind of wish you well in your new life or congrats or even we're been through a lot together type of poem. Any ideas? Please suggest, even if you're unsure.
In return, I give you the opposite:
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding
You ask me for a poem about love
in lieu of a wedding present, trying to save me
money. For three nights I've lain under
glow-in-the-dark-stars I've stuck to the ceiling
over my bed. I've listened to the songs
of the galaxy. Well Carmen, I would rather
give you your third set of steak knives
than tell you what I know. Let me find you
some other store-bought present. Don't
make me warn you of stars, how they see us
from that distance as miniature and breakable,
from the bride who tops the wedding cake
to the Mary on Pinto dashboards
holding her ripe red heart in her hands.
--Beth Ann Fennelly
In return, I give you the opposite:
Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding
You ask me for a poem about love
in lieu of a wedding present, trying to save me
money. For three nights I've lain under
glow-in-the-dark-stars I've stuck to the ceiling
over my bed. I've listened to the songs
of the galaxy. Well Carmen, I would rather
give you your third set of steak knives
than tell you what I know. Let me find you
some other store-bought present. Don't
make me warn you of stars, how they see us
from that distance as miniature and breakable,
from the bride who tops the wedding cake
to the Mary on Pinto dashboards
holding her ripe red heart in her hands.
--Beth Ann Fennelly