Mellabee M. Miller
Forget what the song says, words of Love are exactly what we need to hear. (Did you ever notice that we all shift uncomfortably in our seats when someone loudly proclaims "I love you?" "Go get a room," someone is sure to cry. Yet we are all totally fascinated by someone storming out the door in the café screaming "I hate you?" What is up with that?)
Chloe Miller, poet, at her site Word Arrangement can help you find exactly the right words to say "I love you." If you have trouble expressing your emotions in poetry, she's your go-to girl. There are lots of wonderful poems out there and I always encourage my couples, if they like poetry, to look for metaphors that align with their values. But how incredible to have your love immortalized in your very own poem!
She won't just find words for the bridal couple, she'll help out the person making a toast or simply giving a gift to the couple. Use the poem in your program or on your website. Have them printed on Melabee M. Miller's roses or sent to you to be transcribed onto your own backdrop. After you read it, frame it and hang it on your wall so that every day you remember how much you love one another and why you embarked on this wonderful journey called marriage. How wonderful to know that your love is great enough, that with a simple discernment process, this very talented poet can tell the world your story.
THE BRIDGE: for Christa and Jas, 2006
His proposal bridged east and west
as they kissed between the words.
In her poems, she immortalizes
her story, then his, now theirs.
Two narrators, one plot. They are engaged
after five years of sweetness.
The unwritten years’ ink
fills in craters, lifts the sun and moon.
She bakes with measured flour,
adds pinches of spice, sugar until it tastes like home.
The earth provides colors, flavor,
and the couple builds, creates above.
One more (great) way to move from "I do" to happily and healthily ever after.
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