Promptly Poetry Challenge 2022-23

The Registrar [Week 1 entry]

The Registrar


A man dressed in brown
from toes to his crown
without smile or frown
bids us to sit.

Rote queries ensue,
he asks, "Will you two
forever be true,
for life commit?"

I all but cry out,
"If I must without
this girl plod about,
I've no real life!"

She says much the same,
and finally came,
"You now I proclaim
husband and wife!"



Prompt / Form Note ▶︎

Prompt: A person who changed your life.
Form Note: A cyhydedd hir for a certain Standesbeamter in Augsburg, West Germany (Feb. 1976). For information on the form, please see Cyhydedd hir