Wedding Daze

(Punning with rhymes, homophones, heteronyms, homographs and homonyms)

Fat as ever she has new gait;
This child with child went through the gate;
At fifteen from home she took flight;
In the wee hours of the night.

Dumped by her dad as bad refuse;
Off to grand who did not refuse;
Disgraced was she, those folks did see;
Sent to grandma across the sea.

So much pain she must have gone through,
Clings to a lover that is true;
Far from a dad she hardly knew;
A girl exultant is not blue;

A single parent! I must not;
For Jack and I must tie this knot;
Forget he has no job or home;
Away from him I must not roam.

This child I bear has signed our fate;
This day I swear he is my mate;
Standing with him at the altar
This for sure no one dare alter.

At the church the rector was there
Dressed, in a robe that was quite dear,
When compared with the bridal veil
She bought, from store within the vale.

The gown she wore was coral hue;
Mixed with ornaments old and new;
Two hundred people came as guests;
What gifts they brought, I tried to guess.

The bells rang out the marriage rite;
Here, comes, the bride; in coral white.
Do you take Mary-Lou your wife?
I do this day, and all my life.

Hand in hand they walked down the aisle;
And thought of their honeymoon isle;
Toward the cake they both did cleave;
Wow! Icing on their lips did cleave.

They took their wedding vows at eight;
Some guests sat for hours and ate;
With the purple hues of sunset
Bliss, she wears his diamond set.

©Paterika Hengreaves