Tips for writing an Anniversary Poem

As the years pass in your relationship, it gets all the more difficult to come up with a creative way to express your love.

The longer you’ve known each other, though, the more material you have to draw from and write things like anniversary poems when you celebrate one more trip around the sun.

You might feel like you have to find your inner Shakespeare or Oscar Wilde, but romance isn’t exclusive to poets who have long since passed. In truth, you can come up with something more personal (and, therefore, more touching) on your own.

Don’t get bogged down by what you think is right or wrong, just follow these four tips and give it a go. At the very least, your sweetheart will appreciate your effort, right?

Best Tips for writing a poem for Anniversary

Stick to What You Know

Don’t worry too much about getting into long technical details – it doesn’t matter if you are doing a haiku or a limerick – and write the way that feels most natural to you.  This might mean rhyming couplets or a complex sonnet. 

You want to the words to sound like something you might say on your own as opposed to a group of lines plucked from Victorian England, so begin throwing out ideas and let your mind run for a while.  You might be surprised what you find.

Get Help When You Need It

Trying to figure out the best way to fit your lover’s taste for orange juice in and still make a reference to a tendency to devour chicken pot pie? 

Look into websites that provide rhyming dictionaries to help you find the inspiration to make something unique.  This will not only help you finish a couple of hard-to-work-out lines, but it might give you the burst of mental energy required to add on another stanza or two.  You never know!

Don’t Feel Like You Have to Say Everything

Let your thoughts flow naturally.  You might have hundreds or things you want to fit into your poem, but that doesn’t mean you must do so!  There will be plenty for you and your sweetie to talk about after it’s been read – reminiscing about old times, thinking toward the future – and you don’t want to lay all that out. 

Stick to a handful of lines (roughly 12, but 20 at the most), then bring it to a close.  Your goal is not to recreate the story of your relationship as long as Epic of Gilgamesh or The Iliad.

Have Fun

Look, if you are reading this, chances are pretty good you aren’t a professional.  Your work isn’t going to be sold by a greeting card company or written about in literature magazines – that alleviates all the pressure to perform a miracle! 

Just throw caution to the wind and let your imagination run wild.  Your dearest will love what you come up with regardless of how clumsy it is, so be as funny or sweet as you like.  Your only task is to celebrate the love the two of you have worked so hard to maintain and grow over the years.  Just do it!

Presenting the Anniversary Poem

There are several ways by which you can wish the anniversary couple or your special someone: Some of which are:

1. Record the anniversary poem in your voice in a Compact disk (CD)
2. Call the person and narrate the poem
3. Send the anniversary poems via Email or text messages
4. Write it in a beautiful card and gift it.
5. Decorate the room with beautiful romantic anniversary poems.

Funny Anniversary Poems

Anniversary is the best time to make your feelings known. It is the best time to wish couples for being a part of your life and congratulate them, for their togetherness.

And in doing so, if humor is added, it adds a glitter to that special occasion. Some of the funny anniversary poems for marriage anniversaries are:

1. "I Still Love You
   The dog threw up.
   The kids are ill.
   Our bank account
   Is almost nil.
   
   The laundry's
   Stacked up in a pile,
   And still I know
   I have to smile.
   
   Although our life
   Might look like blight,
   I get to be
   With you each night.
   
   It may be tough,
   That much is true,
   But still I love
   My life with you." By Denise Rodgers.

2. "Another wonderful year we've spent together,
   In the years ahead - may our love last forever;
   
   There's been the ugly, the good and the "bad",
   But despite all of this - our love's no passing fad.
   
   We've seen each other bleary-eyed with messed up hair,
   Witnessed momentary irritation and felt no despair;
   
   Then there's been shopping sprees with money unaccounted,
   And sport watching fanaticism - with no one feeling affronted.
   
   We've had the, "Does this make my bum look fat?" question,
   And fifth amendment answers - some things not worth the mention;
   
   Toothpaste caps left off and the toilet seat positioning...
   squabbles over laundry and trash and dry cleaning for fetching.
   
   But, my dear...for better or worse we made our promise,
   And magical moments surpass the inevitable crisis;
   
   So Happy Anniversary my lover and my friend,
   My appreciation, my love...my heart to you I send!"