Family Wedding Poems

Dashing to the Registry
With my bride to be, to be.
Under blue skies with blue shoes.
Wedding bands and promises, 
Held tight, till later…
I do

Fanciful footwork and...

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You are having a what?
Bohemian forest wedding.
What is that?
I’m not sure actually.
All I have to do is show up.
Her family has done all the rest.
Is...

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We
richly green mountains
of germinating
Jeremiah prophetic strength

Before we formed you
in our valleyed womb,
we knew you

Before you came to life
rebirthed
we consecrated your humane species

We witness your
polycultured prophecy
to...

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Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will...

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Fly away my sweet butterfly,
it is time now to bid you good bye,
you always will be a part of me,
fly now to your own family...

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Our special days,                      ...

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Her name was fancy Ann flapper Bell
they called her the bell of the ball
the story goes, she was a flapper
who married a clapper,
a fine banger...

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You two have always enabled me to let go
and even laugh when I simply couldn't.

I feel like the family is even more evident today, 
from...

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I am here to tell a story,                  ...

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Life and away we go,                    ...

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Many years ago when we were all young,                          we dated looking for a...

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They dress up the baby in a peach snowsuit
Then they hear her farting with her cute little toot
Only the farting gets serious, and the diaper...

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I remember the smell of beer
going down the back steps
The keg under the dartboard
the men in long sleeves
Being carried by my grandfather
and each uncle one...

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Dear Father, mine. 

I ran away from bad. 
I took my children with me.
I found a place to run to. 
It was an empty castle...

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Jill’s wedding cake reflected her eclectic personality
Perky, pretty with prominent polka dots
It included stripes and flowers

Jill is an artist the groom’s side explained to each...

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