Young Child
If you’re asking a child to read a poem at your wedding, these poems might be a delightful fit, playing with (or against!) the gorgeous innocence of youth.
7 poems
Learned in Kindergartenby Robert Fulghum, b. 1937“Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up”
Loveby "Roy Croft" (disputed attribution)“You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”
Love meby Bee Rawlinson, contemporary“You in shorts and socks and sandals; Me with warts and huge love-handles”
Oh, the places you will go!by Dr. Seuss, 1904 ~ 1991“Things can happen and frequently do, to people as brainy and footsy as you”
The kissby Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 ~ 1941“Love is writing a song in a delicate script, kiss-calligraphy on lips”
Touched by an angelby Maya Angelou, 1928 ~ 2014“Love costs all we are and will ever be, but it is only love that will set us free.”
When faces called flowersby e.e. cummings, 1894 ~ 1962“Alive; we’re alive, dear: it’s(kiss me now)spring!”