Poems and Readings
During the service there is time for appropriate poems, and we have included a few suggested items. Please feel free to make your own suggestions but confirm with the Minister well ahead of the service.
As Long as …. I Will Love You’
As long as I can dream,
As long as I can think,
As long as I have a memory ….
I will love you.
As long as I have eyes to see
And ears to hear
And lips to speak ……
I will love you.
As long as I have a heart to feel
A soul stirring within me,
An imagination to hold you ……
I will love you.
As long as there is time,
As long as there is love,
As long as there is you,
As long as I have breath
To speak your name ……
I will love you,
Because I love you more
Than anything in all the world.
Daniel Haughian.
An American Indian Prayer
More Poems and Reflections
‘Now you will feel no rain
For each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold
For each will be a warmth to the other.
Now you will feel no loneliness
For each of you will be companionship to the other.
Now you are two persons
But there is only one life between you
Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your life together.’
Michelle Purkiss
On this Wedding Day
The grace of life is theirs
Who on this wedding day
Delight to make their vows,
And for each other pray.
May they, O Lord, together
prove
The lasting joy of Christian
love.
F Pratt Green (1903 – ) Based on 1 Peter 3:7