The Royal Wedding – The Tone is Set, a new poem as Worcestershire Poet Laureate.
It is not every Laureate who gets a Royal Wedding during their tenure. As this website has a huge International reach and this is a momentous occasion, I decided it was only fitting to gift a poem.
The Tone is Set
In one smile
she shows the world
her dreams have come true.
Gentle songs meander
towards strong speeches –
Fire and Love.
The Prince and nearly Princess
absorb their connection,
fingers entwined.
A mother sits alone,
closes her eyes in prayer
as the choir trills the space.
Bishop Michael invites
the congregation to think
of the shape of love.
‘Think about the time
you first fell in love
in any form.’
The smile widens
as tears are wiped from cheeks,
hats bowed in thought.
‘We were made
by the power of love.’
A moment of almost silent
sign language is shared,
as lovers do. Before ‘I do.’
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