This year’s wedding season is in full swing. With that often comes speeches, and many can probably recognize themselves in the fact that it can be difficult to put words to love. Then it is good to know that you have poetry behind you. Are you perhaps unsure of what to say to your fiancé when you give each other your yes? Are you one of those who will give a speech during dinner? Or maybe you are looking for a beautiful poem you can write on the bride and groom’s card? Fear not! Here are six recommendations from poets with texts that pay homage to love. Lena Kristin Ellingsen – actress Photo: Agnete Brun / TV 2 «Do not put your life in my hand» by Åse Marie Nesse Do not put your life in my hand if my love is the answer my love is also a cry in the wind put a flower in my hand a daisy today a thistle tomorrow and the healing herb that grows from tears put a bird in my hand a ragged little bird then I stroke him beautifully and teach him to fly: Come back when you want to put your hand in my hand so if we are strong together then we are weak together then we are together but do not weigh me down with your love do not put your life in my hand live yourself – – This is a poem I want to live by. To be able to give the one you love freedom and comfort, show patience and trust, support and strength. To dare to be weak, endure and also wish that the other is as it is, with the resistance it brings. – That life is changing, shows from different sides; weak, strong, strong, beautiful and ugly. Tie strong ties, but not too tight. It makes both yourself and the one you love responsible. I find it beautiful, inspiring and liberating. Stein Torleif Bjella – artist and poet Photo: Xin Li / news «Barbed wire winter» by Rolf Jacobsen -Ho.When we got married it was cold, then.At least twenty-five hard, solstice day, nineteen before, war and cattle plague with barbed wire. Do we remember climbing over the ski guard to the vicarage? – Hi, your dress is stuck. – no not there but there. a. Yes, we said. But you world how filthy we were on our feet. When we had gone to bed in the evening we caught a splash, both of us. God knows why. And then the long life began. – This poem was part of the collection «Night Open», which was published in 1985. It was the last book publication by Rolf Jacobsen. He married Petra in 1940. Night Open came out two years after Petra died. So they were married for over 40 years. – I get moved when I read it. It will also be my wife, she knows it by heart. Hans Olav Brenner – host of “Brenner shares poems” Photo: Robert Rønning / news “To own” by Aslaug Vaa Sometimes one asks-Can one own another human being? When two meet in a hug and hold and feel one thing, the other is tea – Feels one in the blink of an eye, in a small word, in a thought, in a mind that goes like grain in your flowering meadows – Feels one in what one mentions sunburn mold. eismall? Is not then the other men’skje medI kvar rørsle ein gjer? Yes, can one then any mind become eismall att? to be free. For yet men are bound And do not know what they say When they whisper to each other: I love you. .Go where you want, You are you! Do what you want, I am I-But I see your wayAnd I obey your footstepsAnd I know r your willStream through the bloodIn even, calm pulse beats-Only then can two men’skje own quadrants. – The question I most often get on Instagram is «help, I need a poem at a wedding. What should I read? I’ll give the talk in an hour! ” If you search for wedding poems online, there are many home-made suggestions that are not always so good. So I suggest a two-stage rocket consisting of two poems: first Aslaug Vaas poem «To own», then a short poem by Arne Ruset called «We can not own each other». – Aslaug Vaa serves us a kind of love manual that goes the best self-help book in the industry, and actually manages to say something quite simple and banal and really wise at the same time. It will be an incredibly nice combo if you first let Vaa say the big things about love, before ending with the slightly more modern and humorous comment from Ruset. “We can not own quadrants” by Arne Ruset We can not own quadrants A thousand poems have told us we can not own quarantines we can borrow quadrants and forget to return Thula Kopreitan – literary critic in news Photo: Javier Ernesto Auris Chavez / news From “Disappearance point” by Tor Ulven Be water in the water. Be stone in the stone. Or love the hand that grabs the rock underwater. – This is not a “love poem”. And I’m not married. But I know what it’s like to love someone, what it’s like to look for, find and seize someone else. You are in your own little sphere – water in the water, rock in the rock – until you grip or feel gripped. – Basically, it’s disturbing. The water surface is broken and the stone is moved. Who is this hand? Who comes and shakes up, who is so hot and who grabs you and holds you? One day it’s yourself, the next it’s your beloved. That’s how it is. You switch. Siss Vik – literature journalist at news Photo: Javier Auris / news “Not too close” by Egil Ulateig Not too close Not too close We are shadows for each other We want to live in the sun but not too far away Our branches must be ironed in the evening wind and in the deep at night we will feel the other person’s slow breathing in time with the stars and clouds drifting away slowly and in the first glitter of morning I will hear your leaves rustle near me not too close we suck nourishment of the same soil then we can never be big but so close together we can take in each other when we are lonely and fall close to each other to the end – That poem here I heard at a friend’s wedding. I think that says something important about living together. One of the dangers of a long relationship is forgetting that the other is your own person and invading or trying to change them. – The other danger is that you grow apart. The poem is simple, but thus also a good rule of thumb: Let me stand so far away from you that you can flourish, but so close to you that we constantly touch each other with tenderness. Martin Svedman – poet and author Photo: Javier Ernesto Auris Chavez / news From “Jimmy & Rita” by Kim Addonizio Rita sticks her foot in the ice around the beer keg. the foot becomes numb. Rita in a beige wedding dress, withered leaves, stockings and shoes that disappeared somewhere – maybe the van they took from the town hall, or the barends they were piled out. A firebrand on Rita, and Jimmy says it’s my wife and knocks him down. She’s nauseous – it’s always champagne. Rita gets the goosebumps she sees the shooting star falling over the houses in their direction- parking lot, dunes, sea: dark cloth cleared of crumbs. (Translated excerpt from the book “Jimmy & Rita” by Kim Addonizio, published in English in 1997) – Kim Addonizio’s poems contain a lot of action, which also applies to this beautiful, alternative wedding poem. Weddings usually go on rails, whether it is in the church or the town hall. You just have to show up, the program is ready. But what about the wedding party? – For many, the party is perhaps just as important and more stressful than the ceremony itself. It can take many paths, which Addonizio captures when she draws a picture of newlyweds Rita with her foot in an ice bath. She is alone, and a little nauseous from the champagne. She sees a sign in the sky that is also worth the reader to dwell on, before the poem zooms in on the dark, clean canvas. Hungry for more literature? Read more here :
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