The Wedding Vow Comments

the sweetness I'd inferred from their sourness; and at the same time that I had come, congenitally unworthy, to beg. And yet, I had been working toward this hour all my life. And then it was time to speak GREAT POEM great write great 10+++++++++++++++++++++++

This is a poem with a tragic context: her very personal history. To grasp some of that context read her " I Go Back To May 1937" , also on these pages, and then research what it's about, in order to be fully able to comprehend what she's referring to in The Wedding Vow.

sharon's experience was different than mine, but i appreciate her meditation, her detailed recollection, of what is such a weighty moment, a covenant moment. -glen

We stood beside each other, crying slightly with fear and awe. In truth, we had married that first night, in bed, we had been married by our bodies, but now we stood in history—what our bodies had said, .......outstanding conceptualization. A beautiful poem is amazingly shared. Thanks and congratulations for being selected this poem as the modern poem of the poem of the day.

Beautifully penned dear Sharoncongratulations for being selected as the POD God bless

An excellent poem worthy of a marriage.

Married by our bodies! ! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

''.. he was offering me, no matter what, his life. That is all I had to do, that evening, to accept the gift I had longed for.. '' this is what we hope when we marry.. Then it's up to.. Life.. A very good poem, indeed