A Wedding Day Poem

Here's a poem I wrote about Grace Lin's lovely wedding that I attended last Sunday:

Fairy Tale Wedding

Origami cranes wearing party prints
watch over the day.
On tables, pink rosebuds
bloom in vases
filled with glitter.
Delicate paper cuttings
trim the room with lace.
Gold candles flicker on the mantle.

Flowers bloom on the hearth...

give off the scent of a spring day.
A painted teapot sits on a table
ready to pour sweet tradition

from its spout.
Paper lanterns hang from branches,

fill with light music
as the guitarist strums soft chords
and two women sing a song of love.
Enchanted guests await
the prince and princess
who are to marry today
and begin their journey
to happily ever after.

********************

Find out more about Grace’s wedding at these blog posts:

• A Wonderful Wedding Day!!!!! (Wild Rose Reader)
• entropy (Blue Rose Girls)
• Wedding pics and links (Blue Rose Girls)
• my wedding things (on thursdays) (Grace Notes)
  
  

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Teaching Books


Edited to add: I forgot to include a link to my post at Blue Rose Girls. Click here to read the wedding poem that Janet Wong and I wrote for Grace Lin.