Preparation

Tomorrow I plan to put "The Wedding Vow" on my blog. It is one of my favorite poems and was written some years ago to try and express how I would feel if ever God granted me the privilege to find the right lady to become my wife. In preparation for that humble work of art please let your mind drift to a distant point in time, to a time of chivalry and romance, a time filled with deeds of valor and imagine if you will it is the night before our gallant knight takes his bride.

Sir Afton and Sir James are sitting just beyond the castle walls in a shady glade watching the sun go down and to be sure his friend is doing the right thing he asks him why he wants to marry this lady above all the rest in the realm. Sir James replies . . .

Word of Wisdom

Underneath the stars of heaven,
Once a gift I was given,
It was a word I heard in prayer,
The name of her who was not there.

In season and in time,
God’s not men’s nor mine,
I knew that through grace,
She to me would come.

To me though I did not understand,
For man cannot see the hidden hand,
Of a fair destiny yet to be,
Of love’s wishes cast upon the amber sea.

The sea of time that unfolds,
Just as the universe’s Master foretold,
I cannot tell you how or why,
I will simply love her till I die.

An angel placed here on earth,
One set above the rest,
To have and to hold from this day forth,
No more may I say of course.

Yet within my heart beats a drum,
That pounds out her name,
And makes it course in every vein,
Till it’s back in my heart again.