Whilst Searching for Wedding Poems with a Friend...

...I uttered a sentence not unlike 'I'm sure if people knew that poetry could be like this, they wouldn't walk around thinking poetry isn't for them.'

Here are some of the poems that brought me to that conclusion:

Common Sense - Harry Graham

'There's been an accident!' they said,

'Your servant's cut in half; he's dead!'

'Indeed!' said Mr Jones, 'and please

Send me the half that's got my keys.'

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The Perfect Place - Roger McGough

'The world is the perfect place to be born into.

Unless of course, you don't like people

or trees, or stars, or baguettes.

Its secret is movement.

As soon as you have stepped back

to admire the scenery

or opened your mouth

To sing its praises

it has changed places with itself.

Infinitesimally, perhaps,

but those infinitesimals add up.

(About the baguettes,

that was just me being silly.)'

(Just so you know, I cannot say 'infinitesimally'. Syllabically, yes; as one, no. As a dare, please say 'infinitesimally' and 'syllabically' one after the other as fast as you can whilst reading the next poem.)

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'eating alone

my alphabet soup

speaks to me.'

Brenda S. Duster

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Mrs Icarus - Carol Ann Duffy

'I'm not the first or the last

To stand on a hillock,

watching the man she married

prove to the world

he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.'

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The Lisboa - Hugo Williams

Pass me the alarm clock, Carolyn.

What time do you have to go to work?

I'll set it for half past seven,

then we'll have time for breakfast.

I'll get the milk.

Listen, why don't you ring up in the morning

and say you're going to be late?

Then we can do what we like.

We could go to the Lisboa and have custard tarts.

We could go to the Gate.

Lift up your arms.

Let me take this off.'*

*We did find some much more suitable for candidates for wedding poem of choice than these (which, come December, I'll be reading!)

 Any other poems you'd add to this list?