Vintage
Vintage revives the beauty from eras now past. Edwardian, Victorian and art-deco. These poems are nostalgic in their feel, but timeless in their message.
13 poems
For a new beginningby John O'Donohue, 1956 ~ 2008“The delight when your courage kindled and out you stepped onto new ground”
Habitationby Margaret Atwood, b. 1939“With wonder at having survived this far, we are learning to make fire”
House of Stoneby Carmen Bugan, b. 1970“May your tears and your smiles happen always face to face.”
I carry your heartby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“This is the wonder that is keeping the stars apart.”
Loveby "Roy Croft" (disputed attribution)“You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”
Most like an archby John Ciardi, 1916 ~ 1978“All I do at piling stone on stone apart from you is roofless around nothing”
On Loveby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Let love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls”- On marriageby Kahlil Gibran, 1883 ~ 1931“Be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night”
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.”
The Wedding Marchby Gerard Manley Hopkins, 1844 ~ 1889“I to him turn with tears, whose wonder-wedlock deals triumph and immortal years”
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”
Wedding Toastby Richard Wilbur, 1921 ~ 2017“The world's fullness is not made, but found.”- When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”