Bride Wedding Poems

       Man weds cockroach in church ceremony  
        Guests munch on...

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in church 
            watching the chocolate eyes
of the beautiful
     ...

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Bidding goodbye to single blessedness 
beauteous sister braves aisle toward marital bliss
blooming with her bridal bouquet, God*-bestowed 
beaming midst hopeful best from heart’s abyss.-

*2 Corinthians...

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maybe the bride airmailed me a message
to object to their match would be a mad gaffe
so I found fulfillment in fantasy  
as off flopped...

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When the prince first stood naked before his new bride,
his disappointed was a little hard to hide.
Had he given all those red rubies
just to get...

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       On reddish twilight,
       couple young and bright
     ...

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They had never seen or heard of a wedding before
But they wanted one that would last forever more
Just a few humans, they cautioned me, not...

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It only hook a moment
When I saw you from across the room,
Standing there talking with the bride And groom.
Though we had met some  years...

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"The Maiden's Song" or "The Bridal Morn" is an ancient Middle English poem about a young girl, a bride, on the morning after her wedding...

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peach roses adorn
arcing above the blushed bride
celebrating love...

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Tom cat got a bunch of wedding cake smeared in his face
By six ex-wives who thought he was a grooming disgrace.
Always marrying someone else, a...

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These are modern English translations of epigrams and poems by the ancient Greek poet Erinna...

On a Betrothed Girl
by Erinna
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

I sing...

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Sappho Translations IX


Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch

Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those...

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Sappho Translations VI by Michael R. Burch


Sappho, fragment 52
translation by Michael R. Burch

Yesterday,
you came to my house
to sing for me.

Today,
I come to you
to return the...

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Sappho Translations by VI Michael R. Burch

Sappho, fragment 121
translation by Michael R. Burch

1.
As a friend you're great,
but you need a much younger bedmate.

2.
Although you're very...

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