These Are The Hands: Poems from the Heart of the NHS

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These are the hands that will comfort you in illness, and hold you when fear or grief engulfs your heart. Reflect on Your Relationship: Start by reflecting on your relationship with your partner. What moments have been important to you? What values do you share? Consider readings that reflect these moments and values. You might also want to think about the mood you want to set for the ceremony – romantic, lighthearted, sentimental, or spiritual.

Accessible and engaging. While many of the poems in this anthology are intensely moving, there is plenty of humour’– BJGP (British Journal of General Practice) – full review here May these hands be blessed that we see before us this day. May they always be held by one another. May they have the strength to hold on during the storms of stress and the dark of disillusionment. May they remain tender and gentle as they nurture each other in their wondrous love. May these hands continue building a relationship founded in love, rich in caring, and devoted in reaching for perfection. May Christopher and Stephanie see their four hands as healer, protector, shelter and guide. Deborah Alma is a UK poet who teaches Creative Writing at Keele University. She has worked using poetry with people with dementia, in hospice care, with vulnerable women’s groups and with children in schools. For the last 8 years she has run a project called the Emergency Poet offering poetry on prescription from her vintage ambulance. She is editor of Emergency Poet- An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology; The Everyday Poet- Poems to Live By; #Me Too – Rallying Against Sexual Harassment- A Women’s Poetry Anthology and Ten Poems of Happiness. Her first, full collection, Dirty Laundry is published by Nine Arches Press. She co-founded the world’s first walk-in Poetry Pharmacy in Shropshire with her partner the poet James Sheard in 2017. THESE are the hands that will give you support knowing that together as a team everything you wish for can be realized. These are the hands that look so large and clumsy, yet will be so gentle as he holds your baby for the first time.

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These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes: tears of sorrow and tears of joy. I’m one of them. Yes, I see myself amongst the buffers, and reading Vallance’s notes is bitter fare. I don’t like my Covid inheritance: my mostly blind left eye and mostly deaf left ear. But then I remember that thanks to people who acted in ways diametrically opposed to this government’s necrophilia, I got to play again. They worked like crazy to make sure I didn’t die - and of course not just me, tens of thousands of us. In the here and now, reading the chilling stuff that this inquiry has brought to the surface, I see a boiling mix of Malthus and Calvin. That’s to say, not only have millions of people been treated as an unwanted surplus but Johnson thought it was pre-determined that they should be. That’s a sinister recipe. These are the hands that will caress your body through the years, to make the passion of love come alive in you. There is a popular wedding poem that I cannot find the author of, so I'm hoping someone can help! There are a million different versions, but this is the one that has been turned into vows. It can also be read before exchanging rings.

These are the hands that are smooth and young and carefree now, but will be lined and rougher, working to make you comfortable.These are the hands that will countless times wipe the tears from your eyes; tears of sorrow and tears of joy.

These are the hands of your best friend, young and strong and full of love for you, that are holding yours on your wedding day as you promise to love each other today, tomorrow and forever.

A wonderful anthology to celebrate the NHS, which is itself the best poem a country has ever written’ – Stephen Fry

On this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this: I promise you to lay my heart in the palm of your hands." - Burke's vows, "Grey's Anatomy" It's easy to get caught up in the excitement of planning a wedding, but the ceremony itself is one of the most meaningful parts of the day. Choosing the perfect ceremony reading can be a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be. Here are a few tips to help you find the perfect reading for your big day. These are the hands, young and strong and vibrant with love, that hold yours on your wedding day, as he promises to love you all the days of his life. And lastly, these are the hands that even when wrinkled and aged will still be reaching for yours, still giving you the same unspoken tenderness with just a touch. Hands Ceremony 3Is anyone planning on using this as a ceremony reading? I hope you'll find this feature useful, please do share your thoughts, I'd love to hear from you. Other Ceremony Readings to Consider THESE are the hands that will work along side yours as you build your future together, as you laugh and cry, as you share your innermost secrets and dreams.