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More and more couples are choosing to add a unique touch to their civil ceremony by choosing inspirational love poems. You can select a few verses to recite yourself, have them read by someone close to you, or write an excerpt on your thank you cards.

If this proposal appeals to you, you will find here 8 love poems by national and international authors perfect to personalize the civil marriage.

1. Kisses, Gabriela Mistral

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.

Judas kisses Jesus and leaves an impression

in his face of God, the felony,

while the Magdalena with her kisses

piously fortifies his agony.

Since then in the kisses palpitates

love, betrayal and pains,

in human weddings look alike

to the breeze that plays with the flowers.

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.

Jonathan Lopez Reyes

2. Guárdame en ti, Raúl Zurita

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.

3. Marriage, excerpt from 'The Prophet', Khalil Gibran

You were born together and together you will remain forever.

Though the white wings of death scatter your days.

Together you will be in the silent memory of God.

But let the spaces grow in your union.

And let the winds of heaven dance among you.

Love one another, but do not make love a prison.

It is better that it be a sea that mingles between the shores of your soul.

Fill each other's glasses, but don't drink only from one.

Share your bread, but do not eat from the same loaf.

Sing and dance together, rejoice, but let each of you keep solitude to withdraw into it at times.

Even the strings of a lute are separate, though they vibrate to the same music.

Offer your heart, but not so that they may take possession of it.

For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stay together, but not too close together:

For the pillars support the temple, but they are separate.

And neither the oak nor the cypress grows in the shade of the other.

Over Paper

4. Let's make a deal, Mario Benedetti

Partner,

you know

that you can count on me,

not up to two or up to ten

but count me in.

If you ever

warns

I look into her eyes,

and a vein of love

recognizes in mine,

don't alert your rifles

and don't think I'm delirious;

despite the grain,

or maybe because it exists,

you can count

with me.

If at other times

finds me

sullen for no reason,

don't think it's laziness

you can still count on me.

But let's make a deal:

I would like to count on you,

it's so cute

to know that you exist,

one feels alive;

and when I say this

I mean count

even if it's up to two,

even if it's up to five.

No longer for me to go

rushing to my aid,

but to know

for certain

that you know you can

count me in.

5. Nostalgia, Juan Ramón Jiménez

We'll meet at last. The trembling hands

will squeeze, soft, the happiness achieved,

on a lonely path, far away from the vain

cares that now unsettle the faith of our life.

The branches of the wet and yellow willows

will brush our foreheads. In the pearly sand,

verbenas full of water, of simple chalices,

will ornament the indolent peace of our footsteps.

My arm will wrap around your cuddly waist,

you'll drop your head on my shoulder,

and the ideal will come among the pure evening,

to wrap our love in its eternal beauty!

Del-fín

6. Eternal love, G.A. Bécquer

The sun may be eternally cloudy;

The sea can dry up in an instant;

The axis of the earth may break

Like a weak crystal.

Everything will happen! Will death be able to

To cover me with its funereal crepe;

But it can never go out in me

The flame of your love.

7. Sonnet 73, Francesco Petrarca

Two fresh roses, that at the dawn of the day

one May, an old man and a wise lover

he fucked in paradise, gallant man,

between two other minors divided

with such a sweet smile and courtesy

that even a brute would fall in love at that instant,

and a loving dazzling ray

to the faces of the two of them change.

"Doesn't the sun see two lovers," he exclaimed,

"like these!" and he laughed with a sigh;

and gave them both an affectionate hug.

So roses and phrases dispensed,

and joyful is the heart, and trembling:

O happy eloquence, O happy day!

Pilar Jadue Photography

8. Double invention, Julio Cortázar

When the rose that moves us

encrypt the terms of the trip,

when in the time of the landscape

the word snow is deleted,

there will be a love that will take us at last

to the passenger boat,

and in this hand without a message

will awaken its mild sign.

I think I am because I make you up,

eagle alchemy in the wind

from the sand and the shadows,

and you in that vigil you encourage

the shadow with which you illuminate

and the murmuring with which you invent me.

Give a special stamp to your celebration by pronouncing some poems for the reading ceremony. It will be very emotional for you and your guests.