Ted Kooser. Photo credit: UNL Publications and Photography. I am often asked if I know of a good poem to be read at a wedding, and here's one by James Bertolino, from his new and selected poems, “Ravenous Bliss.”
Bertolino lives in Washington state and I have been a reader of his poetry for almost 50 years.
When he and I were younger, we often published in the same literary journals, most of which have slipped away into the past.
A Wedding Toast
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores— by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea’s blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.
Ted Kooser. Photo credit: UNL Publications and Photography. I am often asked if I know of a good poem to be read at a wedding, and here's one by James Bertolino, from his new and selected poems, “Ravenous Bliss.”
Bertolino lives in Washington state and I have been a reader of his poetry for almost 50 years.
When he and I were younger, we often published in the same literary journals, most of which have slipped away into the past.
A Wedding Toast
May your love be firm, and may your dream of life together be a river between two shores— by day bathed in sunlight, and by night illuminated from within. May the heron carry news of you to the heavens, and the salmon bring the sea’s blue grace. May your twin thoughts spiral upward like leafy vines, like fiddle strings in the wind, and be as noble as the Douglas fir. May you never find yourselves back to back without love pulling you around into each other's arms.
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