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  • Sep 7, 2006, 01:34 PM
    starryeyed
    Poetry search...
    Hi!
    Does anyone have any interesting ideas for poetry that fits in with a wedding theme? I was thinking more along the lines of ee cummings and less along the lines of browning or shakespeare... perhaps something a little unusual?
  • Sep 12, 2006, 07:34 PM
    AKaeTrue
    There's a great book that has what your looking for in it and more, "A World of Ways to Say I Do", it's by Noah BenShea and Jordan BenShea. It has Unique/unusual/fun Vows, Readings, Poems, and different customs, It's about $10 to $15 US. Barnes and Noble has it, and probably other book stores too.
  • Sep 18, 2006, 01:25 PM
    cookie2000
    There's a really beautiful poem - but I'm not sure who wrote it, its about an arrow that was shot into the air and a song and the last two lines are something like, 'and I found the song in the heart of a friend' - its very romantic! Maybe someone else knows who wrote this??
  • Sep 18, 2006, 01:42 PM
    starryeyed
    Hey there Cookie!
    Thanks! I found it... In case you're looking for it again, it's here:
    :)

    "I shot an arrow into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For so swiftly it flew, the sight
    Could not follow it in its flight.


    I breathed a song into the air,
    It fell to earth, I knew not where;
    For, who has sight so keen and strong
    That it can follow the flight of song?


    Long, long afterward, in an oak
    I found the arrow, still unbroke;
    And the song, from beginning to end,
    I found again in the heart of a friend."
    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Sep 19, 2006, 01:56 PM
    cookie2000
    Oh thank you! I've been trying to locate that for ages!!

    Does it help with your wedding? Probably not!
  • Sep 19, 2006, 11:04 PM
    starryeyed
    Hey!
    I probably won't use it in the ceremony - but I will use it for a game we are having at the reception!
    It is really lovely!
    Smiles

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