I Need a Poem for my 12yr old son to read at his brothers wedding.?

Question

Please could someone help.Ive looked high and low . Dont mind a bit of humour

Answer 1

It really depends on the tone of the wedding and how grown up you want your son's reading to be. There's such a range of really fun, and unusual stuff out there.

My personal favourites include a super cute extract from "Winnie the Pooh" - all about sticking together whatever may come, and another from "The Velveteen Rabbit" - all about love being all you need to make you Real.

"The Places We'll Go" by Dr Seuss is a fun reading- although its long and would need cutting down.

Here's a link to some nice readings, ready to print out - perhaps you could go through them with your sons to see what they feel most comfortable with...

The "Dance me to the End of Love" is nice - but a bit of a tear jerker so beware!

Answer 2

Here are two different readings. They're from a book by Mercedes Lackey. The second might be better, since it's shorter and the first would be better coming from someone older than the couple.

This bond, this joining, is not meant to be a fetter. A joining is a partnership, not two people becoming one. Two minds cannot fuse, two souls cannot merge, two hearts cannot keep to the same time. If two are foolish enough to try this, one must overwhelm the other, and that is not love, nor is it compassion, nor responsibility. You are two who choose to walk the same path, to bridge the differences between you with love. You must remember and respect those differences and learn to understand them, for they are part of what made you come to love in the first place. Love is patient, love is willing to compromise—love is willing to admit it is wrong. There will be hard times; you must face them as bound warriors do, side by side, not using the weapon of your knowledge to tear at each other. There will be sadness as well as joy, and must support one another through the grief and sorrow. There will be pain—but pain shared is pain halved, as joy shared is joy doubled, and you each must sacrifice your own comfort to share the pain of the other. And yet, you must do all this and manage to keep each other from wrong actions, for a joining means that you also pledge to help one another at all times. You must lead each other by example. Guide and be willing to be guided. Being joined does not mean that you accept what is truly wrong, being joined means that you must strive that you both remain in the light and the right. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that there will be no strife between you. That is fantasy, for you are two and not one, and there will inevitably come conflict that it will be up to you to resolve. You must not pledge yourselves thinking that all will be well from this moment on. That is a dream, and dreamers must eventually wake. You must come to this joining fully ready, fully committed, and fully respectful of each other.

Now you will no longer fear the storm, for you find shelter in each other.
Now the winter cannot harm you, for you warm each other with love.
Now when strength fails, you will be the wind to each other’s wings.
Now the darkness holds no danger, for you will be the light to each other’s path.
Now you will defy despair, for you will bring hope to each other’s heart.
Now there will be no more loneliness, for there will always be a hand reaching out to aid you when all seems darkest.
Where there were two paths, now there is one.
May your days together be long upon the earth, and each day blessed with joy in each other.

Answer 3

keep it short and sweet as he will be nervous and you do not want it to go on and on something like this?today my brother has got married, and I am not sad ,because I have gained a sister and for this I am really glad,although you are now out of the house and for me there is more room ,but its made me more than happy to say cheers to the bride and groom.Hope this helps he could read this and start with a joke about his brother when they were younger a small story take care hope all goes well ?have a great day

Answer 4

I hope this will help.............
Though we often had our differences
Though often fought and yelled
Though parents always despaired of us
Though we argued and rebelled.

Though I stole your toys and broke them
Though we'd never apologise
Though you stirred my hurts and woke them
Though we'd always criticise.

Though we'd never say "I love you"
Though we'd never say we cared
Though I thought I was above you
Though you never gave nor shared.

Still. If someone ever came between us
If some other than I, hurt you
If the pain overcame or hurt you
Then I'd always be there for you.

I hope all goes well on the day

Answer 5

nicely-time-honored love letters, love essays, friendship essays, lyrics to songs, and so on. He can take a spin on it and write his very own essay, like he might do at school, and follow it on your brother's courting.Quote some lyrics, then provide a wreck all the way down to what he thinks it potential, and the way it pertains to his uncle's courting.

Answer 6

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Answer 7

This be the Poem by Philip Larkin

Answer 8

I love the Velveteen Rabbit reading from SnowBunn's link, it made me cry just reading it!

Answer 9

Here's a nice one,

Do You Love Me?

A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more
than you love me?



The beloved replied,
I have died to myself
and I live for you.



I’ve disappeared from myself
and my attributes.
I am present only for you.



I have forgotten all my learning,
but from knowing you
I have become a scholar.



I have lost all my strength,
but from your power
I am able.



If I love myself
I love you.
If I love you
I love myself.

From: Love Poems of Rumi - Deepak Chopra

Answer 10

Have him make up his own, rather than reading a pre-made poem .. it will be heart-felt and more apporopriate