Josué Mansilla Photographer

Since it is not enough to personalize wedding decorations, nowadays it is more and more common for the bride and groom to write their own vows or choose short famous love phrases to incorporate in the speech of the newlyweds.

Whatever the occasion, the truth is that many turn to poetry and, even better, if they are Chilean writers whom they are quoting, for example, at the moment of exchanging their wedding rings. If this is what you are looking for for the big day, check out this selection of 6 poems (or fragments) according to the geographical area of its author.

North zone

Pablo Larenas Documentary Photography

If they will premiere their silver rings in the landscapes of northern Chile, what better than to pay homage to a figure of the area, such as the great Gabriel Mistral. In "Besos", for example, the poetess, who was born in the Elqui Valley, wrote explores his more sentimental side .

Gabriela Mistral (Vicuña, Coquimbo Region)

Photograph your Marriage

"Kisses."

There are kisses that speak for themselves

the condemning sentence of love,

There are kisses that are given with the look

there are kisses that are given with memory.

There are silent kisses, noble kisses

there are enigmatic, sincere kisses

There are kisses that only souls give each other

there are kisses for forbidden, true.

There are kisses that burn and hurt,

there are kisses that ravish the senses,

there are mysterious kisses that have left

a thousand wandering and lost dreams.

There are problematic kisses that enclose

a key that no one has cracked,

there are kisses that beget tragedy

how many roses in brooch they have plucked.

There are perfumed kisses, warm kisses

that palpitate in intimate longings,

There are kisses that leave traces on the lips

like a field of sunshine between two ices.

There are kisses that look like lilies

for being sublime, naive and pure,

there are treacherous and cowardly kisses,

there are cursed and perjured kisses.

There are kisses that produce ravings

of loving passion, burning and crazy,

you know them well they're kisses from me

invented by me, for your mouth.

Kisses of flame that in printed trace

bear the furrows of a forbidden love,

stormy kisses, wild kisses

that only our lips have tasted.

Do you remember the first one...? Indefinable;

covered your face in crimson blushes

and in spasms of terrible emotion,

your eyes filled with tears.

Do you remember that one afternoon in crazy excess

I saw you jealous imagining grievances,

I suspended you in my arms... a kiss vibrated,

and what did you see next...? Blood on my lips.

I taught you how to kiss: cold kisses

are of impassive heart of rock,

I taught you to kiss with kisses of mine

invented by me, for your mouth.

Manuel Magallanes Moure (La Serena, Coquimbo Region)

Lised Marquez Photography

"Navy."

Your eyes have called me.

To you you have drawn my desires,

as the moon attracts

the waves of the sea.

Your good eyes

I've been told "come, come closer" and in my soul

the wings have opened

the impulses of love, like seagulls

that are already taking flight.

Around you, my beloved,

my feelings fly

in tireless round.

Birds of the sea they look like.

Birds of the sea, that in dilate

circle spin, spin, spin, without rest.

When you see them coming down, take them in

with love and in silence.

Leave the band of nervous birds

to rest on you.

Seas in between

of the huge sea, like a naked rock

shining in the sun, vibrant with fluttering.

Central zone

Millaray Vallejos

Whether before or after signing the marriage certificate, these beautiful phrases of love will give you a unique and emotional touch to your civil or religious wedding. They can even immortalize on their gold rings a very special text, for example, the name of the poem that follows.

Raúl Zurita (Santiago, Región Metropolitana)

Damn Weasel

"Keep me in you"

My love: keep me then in you

in the most secret streams

that your rivers raise

and when already of us

there's only something like a shore left

keep me in you too

keep me in you as the interrogation

of the waters that are leaving.

And then: when the big birds are

collapse and the clouds show us

that life slipped through our fingers

keep me still in you

in the wisp of air that still occupies your voice

hard and remote

like the glacial streams in which the spring descends.

Pablo Neruda (Parral, Maule Region)

Lore and Matt Photographs

"Sonnet XLV"

Don't be away from me for a single day, because how,

because, I don't know how to say it, it's a long day,

And I'll be waiting for you like in the seasons

when somewhere the trains went to sleep.

Don't go away for an hour because then

in that hour the drops of sleeplessness are gathered

and maybe all the smoke that's looking for a home

come to kill even my lost heart.

Oh that your silhouette in the sand will not break,

oh may your eyelids not fly in absence:

don't go away for a minute, beloved,

Cause in that minute you'll have gone so far away

that I'll cross the whole earth asking

if you'll come back or if you'll leave me dying.

South zone

TakkStudio

For the awaited speech, before raising your glasses as a bride and groom, you will also be able to take some verses to make it more emotional And if it's poetry from the south, you'll discover that its authors are deeply rooted in their roots which makes them even more significant.

Jorge Teiller (Lautaro, Araucanía Region)

La Negrita Photography

"In the secret house of the night."

When she and I hide

in the secret house of the night

at the time when the poachers

repair their nets behind the bushes,

even if all the stars were to fall

I would have no wish to make for them.

And it doesn't matter if the wind forgets my name

and pass by shouting mockingly

like a drunken peasant returning from the fair,

because she and I are hidden

in the secret house of the night.

She walks around my room

like the naked shadow

of the apple trees on the wall,

and her body lights up like an Easter tree

for a party of lost angels.

The storm of the last train

it passes by shaking the wooden houses.

Mothers close all the doors

and the poachers are going to re-fill their nets

while she and I hide

in the secret house of the night.

Miguel Arteche (Nueva Imperial, Araucanía Region)

Sebastian Valdivia

"First dawn"

Listen, whispering, to the time of the stars,

the syllabic dawn that approaches.

Listen to your body that trembles and waits,

the desolate key of the embrace, the tremulous contact,

the hand that closes your eyes, the earth that opens up

with ignored fruits. Get up, sleepy one!

The final night is passing through you,

the whole world passes through us, envelops us.

My body is in you.

Our bodies groan through the earth.

I bite the joy of dew and we raise the banners of love

on top of the proud buildings.

And in you I take the humidity of the woods,

the lonely hidden fountains.

And I set free in your blood the rivers in this hour of the hills that are

shudder,

now that you're tearing the night away,

and I emerge from you, nourished by your loving depths

In addition to giving your guests the classic wedding ribbons, you can also give them a thank you card with an excerpt from the poem you have chosen, immortalizing those love phrases on paper and giving a delicate detail to your family and friends.