Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a sixpence in her shoe.
Something blue
blue notes?
Blue Moon
full twice in a month
Singing the Blues
but not today
– getting married
in the morning!
this morning
no more Harvest Moon
fear and fumbling
stripping off
something borrowed –
for the hope of
fertility
Making Whoopee
though we know
how that ended up
will you still love me
When I’m Sixty-four?
– there may be trouble ahead
Stormy Weather
Life is an ocean
Love is a boat
put a sixpence
in my shoe
here goes nothing…
© Andrew Wilson, 2026
Over at dVerse Poets Pub, Dora in Poetics, invites us to riff on one or more phrases from the Victorian rhyme:-
Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a sixpence in her shoe.
Weddings, love and the blues are the subjects of so many songs and who knows what streams through the consciousness of a bride to be…