Wonderful Wednesday's Poem of the day!

Spring hits London's Green Park

Today is the first day that has actually felt like spring is upon us.  With the glorious sun shining in the clear blue sky, it has made us feel rather poetic!

With that in mind we want to share another beautifully simple poem that really tugs on the dear heartstrings… Read, enjoy it and savour it, just as we have – you never know it may just inspire you to write your own!

Love & Marriage – by Stephanie Harvey, York

When you find your partner, a whole new life begins

Sharing new experiences, whatever it brings

When life challenges you, the other is there

To share the emotions, someone to care

Your lives complete, to wedding bells

The joy, the beauty, the flower smells

Fill the air with love, romance and cheer

The memories of the day will ever remain dear

Best friends, now united

A new husband and wife

May they continue to blossom

As they venture on in life

Manic Monday's Poem of the day!

Hello all!  We hope you’ve had a lovely weekend enjoying the first spring-like weather we’ve had in a long time!  It's been a very busy day indeed, here at Marriott Love Poems HQ, sifting through all the weekend and Monday poems...

Today, we nominate Nicholas Aris’ ‘The Wedding Jitters’ as our poem of the day, for its beautiful simplicity - hope you enjoy it as much as we have!

The Wedding Jitters – by Nicholas Aris, Nottingham

The birds sing;

The bells sing;

You can forget your lines,

But not the ring.

Cut the cake;

It soon goes;

But if you dance,

Mind her toes.

Confetti falls;

Your mother bawls;

The car pulls off,

And doesn’t stall.

Now you’re wed;

Happy ever after;

May your days,

Be filled with laughter.

The Marriott Love Poems search has just 10 days left, so if you haven’t yet managed to submit your poem, get it in quick to www.marriottlovepoems.com!

Happy World Poetry Day!

In case you didn’t know, today (March 21^st) is World Poetry Day, so we hope you’ve been enjoying some beautiful poetry in the glorious sunshine!  See a message below from Irina Bokova from UNESCO, about World Poetry Day:

Poets convey a timeless message. They are often key witness to history’s great political and social changes. Their writings inspire us to build lasting peace in our minds, to rethink relations between man and nature and to establish humanism founded on the uniqueness and diversity of peoples. This is a difficult task, requiring the participation of all, whether in schools, libraries or cultural institutions. To quote the poet Tagore, the 150th anniversary of whose birth will be celebrated this year, "I have spent my days in stringing and unstringing my instrument."

Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO
Message for World Poetry Day 21 March 2011

Twoems!

To further get your creative juices flowing, we are today launching Marriott Love Twoems!  We’d like you to see how poetic and creative you can get in 140 characters of less by tweeting us your ‘Twoems’!  Again, like the poems you’ve been sending, Twoems should be about love, marriage, romance or weddings!

The most creative, inspiring and humorous Twoems we pick, will net themselves a romantic night’s stay at a Marriott Hotel or Country Club!

To participate:

• Tweet us @MarriottPoetry your 140 character (or less) love poems

• Or tweet to your own profile using hash tag #MLTwoems

• Alternatively, if you’re not a Twitter user, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Marriottlovepoems and post on our wall (remember to hit the word count though!)

Winning Twoets (see what we did there!) will be notified via Twitter DM or private Facebook message. Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/MarriottPoetry

Good luck!

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

Fiona Sampson's Wise Words

Marriott Love Poems Judge, Fiona Sampson

Just in case you missed Judge and editor of Poetry Review magazine, Fiona Sampson's top poem writing tips the first time round, we’re giving you a reminder of them to really help get your creative juices flowing and keep them focused! 

Fiona Sampson's Top Five Tips

1) Write what you know.  You know about your own experience of love, for example.

2) Big, abstract words don't tell us anything new.  The devil's in the detail - show the readers what you mean.

3) Traditional rhyme and completely free verse are equally fashionable.  But whatever you pick, stick to it!

4) Read your poem aloud. It needs to work out loud even more than as a pattern on the page.  If something sounds odd, or it's embarrassing - change it!

5) Don't rush it.  This is your poem and it's worth getting right. None of the poems, or lyrics, you have ever heard of are first drafts.  You are writing the poem, not the Muse (she doesn't exist!) so change the bits that aren't so good, and make them better.

 

Marriott Love Poems Judge, Matt Harvey

Remember, you have two weeks to get scribbling, submit your poem(s) and really impress judges Matt Harvey and Fiona Sampson. 

Visit www.marriottlovepoems.com for more information and to submit your poem.  Or join the many people who’ve been inspired to quite literally put pen to paper and send a poem in the post!  Address your poems to:

Marriott Love Poems, Nylon Communications. 19a Floral Street, London WC2E 9DS 

I'll be your Knight in Shining Armour

Hello all!

Hope everyone has been busy writing poems galore! 

We just wanted to share a lovely and very Royal poem that came through in the post a couple of days ago by Aidan Caine in Stevenage, Hertfordshire…

“I’ll Be Your Knight In Shining Armour” has been ‘written with a view to what HRH Prince William might say to Kate Middleton but it could apply to any groom’

Read it below and let us know what you think!

"I'll Be Your Knight in Shining Armour" by Aidan Caine, Stevenage