Marriage poems, at times, may give us a glimpse of insight into monogamy versus polygamy. Whatever, they are always good to read at least once!
Marriage poems by author-names starting with D
Denise Levertov:
Poem on marriage titled The Ache Of Marriage:
The ache of marriage:
thigh and tongue, beloved, are heavy with it, it throbs in the teeth
We look for communion and are turned away, beloved, each and each
It is leviathan and we in its belly looking for joy, some joy not to be known outside it
two by two in the ark of the ache of it.
Diane Wakoski:
Marriage poem titled This Beautiful Black Marriage:
Photograph negative her black arm: a diving porpoise, sprawled across the ice-banked pillow. Head: a sheet of falling water. Her legs: icicle branches breaking into light.
This woman, photographed sleeping. The man, making the photograph in the acid pan of his brain. Sleep stain them both, as if cloudy semen rubbed shiningly over the surface will be used to develop their images.
on the desert the porpoises curl up, their skeleton teeth are bared by parched lips; her sleeping feet trod on scarabs, holding the names of the dead tight in the steady breathing.
This man and woman have married and travel reciting chanting names of missing objects.
They enter a pyramid. A black butterfly covers the doorway like a cobweb, folds around her body, the snake of its body closing her lips. her breasts are stone stairs. She calls the name, "Isis," and waits for the white face to appear.
No one walks in these pyramids at night. No one walks during the day. You walk in that negative time, the woman's presence filling up the space as if she were incense; man walks down the crevices and hills of her body. Sounds of the black marriage are ritual sounds. Of the porpoises dying on the desert. The butterfly curtaining the body, The snake filling the mouth. The sounds of all the parts coming together in this one place, the desert pyramid, built with the clean historical ugliness of men dying at work.
If you imagine, friend, that I do not have those black serpents in the pit of my body, that I am not crushed in fragments by the tough butterfly wing broken and crumpled like a black silk stocking, if you imagine that my body is not blackened burned wood, then you imagine a false woman.
This marriage could not change me. Could not change my life. Not is it that different from any other marriage. They are all filled with desert journeys, with Isis who hold us in her terror, with Horus who will not let us see the parts of his body joined but must make us witness them in dark corners, in bloody confusion; and yet this black marriage, as you call it, has its own beauty. As the black cat with its rich fur stretched and gliding smoothly down the tree trunks. Or the shining black obsidian pulled out of mines and polished to the cat's eye. Black as the neat seeds of a watermelon, or a pool of oil, prisming the light. Do not despair this "black marriage." You must let the darkness out of your own body; acknowledge it and let it enter your mouth, taste the historical darkness openly. Taste your own beautiful death, see your own photo image, as x-ray, Bone bleaching inside the blackening flesh
Marriage poems by author-names starting with J
John Dryden:
Marriage poem titled Why Should A Foolish Marriage Vow:
Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now, When passion is decayed? We loved, and we loved, as long as we could, Till our love was loved out in us both; But our marriage is dead when the pleasure is fled: 'Twas pleasure first made it an oath.
If I have pleasures for a friend, And farther love in store, What wrong has he whose joys did end, And who could give no more? 'Tis a madness that he should be jealous of me, Or that I should bar him of another; For all we can gain is to give ourselves pain, When neither can hinder the other.
Marriage poems by author-names starting with K
Katherine Philips:
Marriage poem titled To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage:
Forbear, bold youth; all 's heaven here, And what you do aver To others courtship may appear, 'Tis sacrilege to her. She is a public deity; And were 't not very odd She should dispose herself to be A petty household god?
First make the sun in private shine And bid the world adieu, That so he may his beams confine In compliment to you: But if of that you do despair, Think how you did amiss To strive to fix her beams which are More bright and large than his.
Marriage poems by author-names starting with R
R. S. Thomas:
Marriage poem titled A Marriage:
We met under a shower of bird-notes. Fifty years passed, love's moment in a world in servitude to time. She was young; I kissed with my eyes closed and opened them on her wrinkles. `Come,' said death, choosing her as his partner for the last dance, And she, who in life had done everything with a bird's grace, opened her bill now for the shedding of one sigh no heavier than a feather.
These are the marriage poems that appealed me quite a bit - in a way; they are my personal choice from amongst a host of them.
I'll keep adding more to them as and when I come across the ones that touch me deep.
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