Poems for a gay wedding
5 love poems by LGBTQ+ writers to scan at your ceremony
sthandwa sami (my beloved, in isiZulu) by Yrsa Daley-Ward
Written by year-old queer English penner Yrsa Daley-Ward, who is of both Jamaican and Nigerian descent, this pretty love poem encompasses the excitement of dreaming about a life together:
&#;I can see the house on the hill where we grow our own vegetables out back
and beverage warm wine out of jam jars
and hum songs in the kitchen until the sun comes up
wena
you produce me feel like myself
again. Myself before I had any solid reasons to be anything else.&#;
The Love Poems of June Jordan
Jamaican-American poet June Jordan has an entire publication of love poems, aptly called Haruko/Love Poems. Poems appreciate Poem for my Lovewould be a lovely part of any ceremony. There is also a charming couplet from the poem, Update:
&#;Still I am teaching unconditional and true/Still I am burning unconditional for you.&#;
For the Courtesan Ch&#;ing Lin by Wu Tsao
Wu Tsao, considered one of the great Chinese queer woman poets, lived in the early s, and wrote this beautiful love poem that in part reads:
&#;You glow like a
The Gay Wedding Poem by Herbert Nehrlich
It always is the cortisol
in times of stress and strife
it lives at the magnetic pole
and stirs the trusted wife.
Some call it winter's ageless itch
while others execute know better,
the devil has seduced the bitch
and sent to you a letter.
'Dear John, it is with great regret
that I must buy a stamp
I do what you would never let
me be, I am a tramp.
So grab your bloody Christmas tree
and stick it in your rear
you won't need to wait up for me
thanks for the flowers, dear.'
My friend came to the pine-swept door
and carried just one bag.
At Eastertime on foreign shore
he met a handsome fag.
The law was changed and they saved up
to pay the fee on time.
Now over runneth their sweet cup
it used to be a crime.
The question now arises yet
who made the better deal
was it the devil with his pet
or same-sex Royal seal.
Vows (for a gay wedding)
Joseph O. Legaspi offers wedding vows in the build of a poem celebrating the resilient, tender, joy-filled love between himself and his husband. As you watch this recording from Legaspi’s visit to the Poetry Center or scan through the printed version, listen or look for the five statements that open with “I vow.” Around those five statements, Legaspi weaves together evocative pairs of metaphors that show the depth and abidingness of the newlywed couple’s relationship.
Joseph O. Legaspi. “Vows (for a gay wedding).” Threshold. Fort Lee, New Jersey: Cavankerry Press,
Vows (for a queer wedding)
What was unforeseen is now a avian orbiting this field.
What wasn&#;t a possibility is display in our arms.
It shall be and it begins with you.
Our often-misunderstood caring of love deems dangerous.
How it frightens and confounds and enrages.
How strange, unfamiliar.
Our love carries all those and the contrary.
It is most incandescent.
So, I vow to be brave.
Clear a path through jungles of shame and doubt and fear.
I&#;m done with silence. I proclaim.
It shall be and it sings from within.
Truly we are enraptured
With Whitmanesque urge and urgency.
I vow to love in all seasons.
When you&#;re summer, I&#;m watermelon balled up in a sky-blue bowl.
When I&#;m autumn, you&#;re foliage ablaze in New England.
When in winter, I am the tender scarf of warm mercies.
When in spring, you are the bourgeoning buds.
I vow to passion you in all places.
High plains, prairies, hills and lowlands.
In our dream-laden bed,
Cradled in the nest
Of your neck.
Deep in the plum.
It shall be and it flows with you.
We&#;ll leap over the waters and barbaric rooftops.
You embrace my resilient metropolis.
I adore your nourishing wilderness.
I vow to love you in primal ways.
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