Interesting poetry

[lilyfrog]

Can anyone reccomend an interesting but tottal non-slushy that could be read out during our Civil Wedding ceremony? i would like something with clever humour or phillip Larkin, but must be appropriate for all family? Does anyone have any ideas?

[jjf2003]

Check out Purple Ronnie's Love Poems. Alternatively, you could try writing your own. Seriously. You know the people you are writing about personally, along with their characters and personal habits, etc. It doesn't have to be *good* poetry, in fact bad rhymes make funnier humour.

[karry]

simon armatage - from the middle distance From the Middle Distance I am found out Down south, holes pecked out for eyes and a mouth A scarecrow planted in a true square mile Of fallow ground Who set me up, Hammered this stake from the nape of my neck To my left foot down through the hips and ribs? I think you did And the broomstick You cued it through the cuffs and sleeves, then lashed The upright to the crosspiece at the heart, Then tied the hands That's how I stand And the blackbirds hang, waiting to feed From the one tall thing in the flat of the land Well here I am. By Simon Armitage its not soppy but it has themes of constancey and taking chances.

[paulz]

I quite liked the Apache's prayer see this site http://www.northyorks.gov.uk/weddings/1.shtml Con
gratulations

[paulz]

Lilyfrog, sorry congratulations doesn't form part of the link, this other one might be too slushy for you, but there's quite a variety http://www.ask.co.uk/ix.asp?q=Civil+Ceremony&ac=no
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