To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage

This book makes a great gift, but if you are married or planning a wedding you will want to keep a copy for yourself. There are wonderful poems to read aloud at a wedding, rehearsal dinner, shower etc. as well as poems perfect for an anniversary celebration. The book looks at marriages of many years as well as courtship, weddings and marriages in their early years. Some of the poets in this book are very well-known, others are people I have never heard of, yet the poems are all beautifully crafted, honest and accessible. A friend of mine who read it commented that it helped her remember what real love is all about.

In To Love One Another: Poems Celebrating Marriage, Ginny Lowe has gathered together a compendium of superb poetry by a spectrum of poets united in the theme of marital joy. From Robert Hardy's "Falling", and Cathleen Calbert's "In Praise of My Young Husband", to E.D. Ehrhyart's "A Scientific Treatise for My Wife", and Leah Furnas' "The Longlyweds Know", To Love One Another is a collections of testaments to the wonder, hopes, desires, and realizations of a truly human, universal, and enduring bond that is marriage. Wedding Day: You are the feet that make it move./You are the music that makes it smooth./You are the arms that make it last./You are the dance and the dancers,/the ones who love and the love others envy./You are each other//in the way you might finish each other's sentences/or think of an early morning conversation/in spare moments at the office,/the way you know the other is in the room without speaking./You know how he brushes his teeth,/how she wakes up during thunderstorms,/how he reads the newspaper before dinner,/how she moves her hair to answer the phone.//People pass you when you're driving together,/They know you are each other - /the way you talk about a vacation or the groceries/or what you'll do to the kitchen next summer./they notice how you lean toward each other,/how your eyes pull each other closer. (Krista Clercx)