Editor's
Choice of "wedding" Haiku Thread
All In
White
Weddings are a joyous
occasion—a
celebration of the present and the future. Ninety haiku
from twenty-six poets living in nine countries express a
variety of responses in the June / July "wedding" haiku
thread.
Just last week I attended
the wedding in Las Vegas of a young couple, colleagues of
my wife. These young folks happen to also be from Iowa,
where my wife and I lived for many years. We were asked to
stand in for the bride's parents.
all in white
on her wedding day—
I give her away
John Daleiden
I felt honored to carry out
this tradition for Kathy, the bride.
I have selected the
following haiku because they represent just a few of the
memorable moments on a wedding day:
Sunny wedding day—
in my mother's hand
a wet handkerchief.
# 76. Monika Wojtenka, PL
two brides, two grooms
one Saturday morning
wedding
# 68. Gillena Cox, TT
wedding bells:
marring the bride's make-up
a torrent of tears
# 42. Keith A. Simmonds, TT
trying moment
the groom's mother casts
a strained look
# 02. W. R. Bongcaron, PH
wedding waltz
step by step
making mistakes
# 88. Mariusz Ogryzko, PL
you and I—
on the wedding cake
fresh strawberries
# 04. Krzysztof Kokot, PL
rushing and sounding
horns—the whole village
at the wedding
# 57. Saša Važić, Serbia
Wedding night—
red wine
on her white dress.
# 80. Monika Wojtenka, PL
Since marriage is an
institution that unites two people in a
life-time-relationship, the annual celebration of the
wedding anniversary is also memorable:
old wedding photo
of the grandparents—
how beautiful they were!
# 06. Andrzej Dembończyk, PL
50th wedding
anniversary—
grandmother's head
all in white yet again
# 70. Iga Gala Miemus, PL
Wedding anniversary—
a lot of flowers
on the gravestone.
# 82. Monika Wojtenka, PL
one red wedding rose
dried and pressed in her Bible—
sixty years of bliss
# 90. John Daleiden, US
Read all of the
"wedding" thread—many
other memorable moments are captured in these
haiku.
