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bookgazing) wrote2010-09-01 07:55 am
bookgazing) wrote2010-09-01 07:55 am
Real Romance
Hello everyone. I feel like I haven't been around with much regularity lately and now I come to ask you for a favour - what will you think of me and my manners? Well I am too in need of literary help to let that stop me, please lend a suggestive comment if you can.
Last weekend a friend asked me to do a reading at her wedding and I (under the influence) agreed enthusiastically. 'I have a whole notebook of poems I love,' I said. 'I will surely be able to find one about love or marriage in there that you will like,' I said. And we both parted, happy in the knowledge that this would be one easy wedding task.
But it seems that somewhere in life I turned into the kind of tragic love junkie that even the Brontes might have thought was ‘a bit much’. Here are some excerpts from poems I’ve copied into my poetry notebook:
‘Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.’
‘Tonight I Can Write’ – Pablo Neruda
‘I cannot work. I cannot read or write.
How can I frame a letter to implore.
Eloquence is a lie. The truth is trite.
Nothing I say will make you love me more.’
‘Nothing’ – James Frenton
Both of them have me sighing ‘How romantic’, neither of them will do for a wedding.
One of the most romantic film scenes I’ve ever seen is John Hannah’s reading of ‘Stop all the Clocks’ in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I was probably a bit too excited when I found out that Will and Lyra’s bench actually exists. My ideas on what is romantic are clearly messed up and I am not equipped to be involved in any kind of traditional marriage ceremony. I need help!
Can anyone suggest an overwhelmingly happy, non-religious poem or passage, about marriage or love that is quite traditional and isn’t:
Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
Shakespeares sonnet 116
My Love is like a Red, Red Rose
Help kind of desperately appreciated ;)
Last weekend a friend asked me to do a reading at her wedding and I (under the influence) agreed enthusiastically. 'I have a whole notebook of poems I love,' I said. 'I will surely be able to find one about love or marriage in there that you will like,' I said. And we both parted, happy in the knowledge that this would be one easy wedding task.
But it seems that somewhere in life I turned into the kind of tragic love junkie that even the Brontes might have thought was ‘a bit much’. Here are some excerpts from poems I’ve copied into my poetry notebook:
‘Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'
The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.’
‘Tonight I Can Write’ – Pablo Neruda
‘I cannot work. I cannot read or write.
How can I frame a letter to implore.
Eloquence is a lie. The truth is trite.
Nothing I say will make you love me more.’
‘Nothing’ – James Frenton
Both of them have me sighing ‘How romantic’, neither of them will do for a wedding.
One of the most romantic film scenes I’ve ever seen is John Hannah’s reading of ‘Stop all the Clocks’ in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’. I was probably a bit too excited when I found out that Will and Lyra’s bench actually exists. My ideas on what is romantic are clearly messed up and I am not equipped to be involved in any kind of traditional marriage ceremony. I need help!
Can anyone suggest an overwhelmingly happy, non-religious poem or passage, about marriage or love that is quite traditional and isn’t:
Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
Shakespeares sonnet 116
My Love is like a Red, Red Rose
Help kind of desperately appreciated ;)