Get Your Premium Membership

Best Condolence Poems

Below are the all-time best Condolence poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of condolence poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member At a Funeral
At a funeral we,                     ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, dog, flower, friend, funeral,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Buckden
“Daisy Hill”
a garden to please
distant,  yet ever near
         in splendid hue.
Yet here now
the chill of winter’s
wrath,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Size Does Matter(Eve)4 Daniel C.
Eve 

So much for Adam talking to the Lord.
A conversation I am sure was bored .

Asking God for a women for him to receive.
Little did...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, dedication, imaginationgod, me, eve,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Emptiness
I am full
Of emptiness
I long for longing
Crave contentment

The insensate pain
Of intangible touch
Indecipherable ciphers
Choreographed madness

Craggy comfort
Of blunt condolence
The decorum of anarchy
Deserted crowds, social solitude
Miles given to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, depression, loneliness, longing, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Could Have Been a Rhyme
What if these notes didn’t rhyme?
would you even take the ...moment?

Would you think they weren’t so witty,
and like the fool you’d give them ...condolence?

Sometimes I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, funny,
Form: Rhyme



The Passing of Edward
Martha was rudely awaken on Monday morning
With the phone call we all dread
“Mrs Palmer we regret to inform you
That your husband Edward is dead”
She thought...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, death, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanilla Killer - trigger warning
Another shift ends. I'm dead on my feet.
Too shagged to even eat.
The word leads (inevitably) to you...
I slipped the timesheets from work today.
Another incident occurred...
Sweetie,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, child abuse, murder,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Vibe
Truth filters thru the dust,
discarded, the guise 
and I can see, clearly
into her soul
carefree, fulfilled 
in compassion and condolence
brimming with pride
all that's felt deep inside

I...

Read more of this work...
© Ts Poetry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: condolence, romance,
Form: Free verse
Great Expectations
Strolling along through Gumgulli Park
where shadows of trees made it quite dark.
Absorbing birdsong filling the air,
taking in beauty with barely a care.

Some people were out...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Unexpected Death
If you may die old or young, 
With all yearning and desire, 
Knowing this song not yet sung, 
With aspiring air through cold lung, 

Thine...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, abuse,
Form: Ode
Football
Football

Football, football what are you in this world?
A piece of bull- hide inflated with hot air
Be not proud, you are inflated with hot lies
Tortured for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, addiction, allegory, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Deck
It’s been thirteen years, but I still think about him a lot
In the morning quiet, standing on the deck he built, not forgot
I sometimes feel...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, fatherme, time, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Is There Something You Want To Tell Me
We used to Communicate, Brainstorm, Debate
but I find you've been quiet and distant, of late.

Just what aren't you Saying? What is the good Word?
To find...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, silence, words,
Form: Rhyme
Grief, the Great Musician
Rain seeps into every crack and crevice
chilling to the bone
Winter has arrived with a vengeance 
and summer is forever gone.
Ice slicks the asphalt, into a
glittering...

Read more of this work...
© Salina Cc  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: condolence, angst, bereavement, grief, growth,
Form: Personification
Don'T Try It
A single kiss from thy lovely lips,
so sweet and so divine,
yet I taste posion upon your tongue.

Your beauty so glorious,
like a blooming rose so beautiful,
yet,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: condolence, beautiful, beauty, care, dark,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things