Charlotte Hilary Matthews--Local Poet

The Messenger.
 
 
  I set up my dear friend Andrea, with my brother-in law Charley.  
Now married!
 
 
The Rehearsal Dinner.
 My toast.
So much Pressure.
I thought back about how I met Andrea  and realized that it was through
Charlotte Matthews
Dear Friend, and Award Winning Poet.

When I saw Charlotte at the Farmer's Market typing out poetry-I asked if she would write a poem for Charley and Andrea.

Wedding Wish
 for Andrea and Charlie

What I really mean by the sacred is it brings you closer to yourself 
 Geshe Tenzin Wangul Rinpohce

There are five elements:
  earth, air, fire, water and space.

 This may not what you learned in school,
 but now you see -- that place inside yourself
 that knows what can't be said,
 like nightfall, when exact shapes
 aren't recognizable any more--
 or a magician's robe-- all gauze and filament and rapture.

So let these be your instructions for making a home:
 draw yourself a house and fill it with dream,
 the driftwood you love and know not why,
 mornings spent reading the paper,side by side,
 listening for the wind at night.

Let yourselves be the space
 in each other--that essential element.
 And whistle what can't be said.

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Charlotte is available to write poetry
Please contact her 
cmathhews@virginia.edu