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Marriott Hotels is celebrating the nation’s romantic mood for marriage by opening up a search to find wedding poets from across Britain. Poems play a special part in wedding celebrations and Marriott is keen to share the nation’s love of waxing lyrical by creating a collection of poems that reflect the love, romance, happiness and humour associated with the big day. So if you’re perplexed by The Prophet, confused by Cummings, or sick of Shakespeare and think you can match them, there’s no better time to put pen to paper. Enter your love or wedding poem at www.marriottlovepoems.com from 24th February 2011 and keep visiting the blog to read all the poems we receive!

Friday, 18 March 2011

Friday Fun


It’s Friday afternoon and quite frankly more than a little miserable, so we wanted to share our ‘Poem of the day’ and generate a chuckle or two from the poem we received below...

When Ollie Wed Dolly - by Marc B

Me and 'er got married
we stayed at this hotel
it backed on to the gasworks
cor, what a bleedin' smell.
Boiled eggs for breakfast
wiv a slice of bread
the coffee weak as water
the tea was grey like lead.
Dinner woz no better
we ordered pie n mash
the gravy looked like oil
it stuck to Dolly's tash.
We went to bed real early
to 'ave our wedded bliss
but Dolly 'ad too much sherry
that only made her piss.
The chocci on the pillow
has slipped into the bed
so when I woke next morning
it was stuck fast to my head.
I expected better
from such a swanky place
not much change from thirty bob
so I shoved the towels in my case.

If you’ve got something funny to say about love and can turn it into fine poetic form then get it into us sharpish!  You have just under two weeks to go, before our judges Fiona Sampson and Matt Harvey have the impossible task of selecting the winning poems from the tons we’ve had sent in!

www.marriottlovepoems.com

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