This is a fabulous blog feature here at Eli to the nth! Poetry is one of my passions, but I often don't have an opportunity to share that passion. This feature gives me the perfect opportunity to do so! Thanks to Genna from Reading, Writing, and the World of Words, who created this awesome feature and gave me the permission to host it here, as well as, use her graphic!
Today I bring you a special edition of Poetry Sunday! Two of my very good friends just got married yesterday, June 23, 2012, and I was lucky enough to be a part of the ceremony! After 7 years together, it was finally time to take the big step, and it was a gorgeous day. I'm so very happy for both of them, and this is the poem I read to them as part of my speech!
The First Marriage
by 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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