Are you still on the lookout for wedding poems? I was at a wedding earlier this week - an older couple - and thought this poem was very apt: “A Lovely Love Story” by Edward Monckton.

Am still enjoying your daily poems. Keep spreading joy!

Tricia x

Thanks for sharing your story. It made me smile.

When I was young, maybe seven or eight, I cleverly observed — with no outside help, hints, or coaching — that the biggest problem book authors faced was getting *both* the right side *and* the left side of the page to line up. You know… so that the very last letter of each word would end *exactly* under the last letter of the word above it.

I was amazed. How did they do that, line after line? Page after page! Straight as a ruler! How did they pick out their words so carefully that they always lined up like that? Now *that* was real art. I figured it must take years to learn how to choose words with such care. I tried it myself on a typewritter with no success. I could not get the words to line up no matter how hard I tried. And so my career as an author ended in dispair at a young age.

To this day, I am quite convinced the only difference between poetry and prose is the right margin. Poets have it easy. They can say whatever they like, and it doesn’t matter if it lines up or not.

And had my first book been a book of poetry, my life would have been different.