Later in life
Marriage is not just for the young. If you’re getting married a little later in life, these poems might be a gorgeous offering.
7 poems
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
How long we were fool'dby Walt Whitman, 1819 ~ 1892“We have voided all but our own freedom, all but our own joy”
Love meby Bee Rawlinson, contemporary“You in shorts and socks and sandals; Me with warts and huge love-handles”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
The Trueloveby David Whyte, b. 1955“You’ve simply had enough of drowning and you want to live and you want to love and you will walk across any territory and any darkness however fluid and however dangerous to take the one hand you know belongs in yours.”
We are youngby J.R.R. Tolkien, 1892 ~ 1973“We have become as one, deep rooted in the soil of Life and tangled in the sweet growth”