Best Funerals Poems

Bringing spiritual togetherness
Congregation being the witness
Heaven’s call to soul’s come home
A place of rejoicing of an everlasting roam
The congregation giving a reflection journey
Deacons conducting the services as true ambassadors of the church
The ministry from the internal heart to being external in a rising mark
The home...

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“Coffins. Who’d of thought it? Catalogues for coffins. And the speed and efficient nature of funerals in general. I mean I know we’ve been doing them for years, but we’re very good at it aren’t we?”
Everyone laughed.
“No, but really the whole thing has just been...

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“the last of the funerals”

today “the last of the funerals”
takes place &
the killings in CT get placed on the
shelf,
alongside the deaths at Columbine,
Virginia Tech...

those were the “big ones” right?

well, now, Aurora was a “big one,” right?
but it didn’t happen in a school, hmmm…but
12 died &...

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The past few weeks have been so tough
As you can clearly see
Four funerals for us to attend
But its not made me teary

The first was Aedan’s he was a lovely young man
I worked with him at school when he was aged eleven
He told me then he...

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During the pre-evening liturgy
Betwixt a shabby stall
Irate I sit scribing seasoned verses
Silent as an infant in production

Whilst the slaughtering of pacifism
Across the universe ‘tis my soundness
Perforated by the eerie current
‘Twas delivered via the vapors of her breath

Curtly, such graphic memories gnaw the very bones
Of what...

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Not for my goodbye 
half-hearted expressions of grief,
nor mumbled condolences faintly felt. 
For somber attire topped by somber faces, 
I have no need.   
I came into this world bearing meager gifts,
but if our paths have crossed 
and I have ever given you reason,
intentionally...

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Three in number are the so valued events in modern life,
Yet each are harbors of  different types of strife,
Each having a separate sharpness although all are part of the same knife,
Opening with the deceitful crown known as a birthday,
In youth it is all you...

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Lord why do funerals occur everyday of the WEEK?

Is it because, we get what Adam and Eve REAPED!

Funerals have people that will never again awake from their SLEEP!

The arrogant and the MEEK,
In the end, they all get buried six feet DEEP!

Every time I attend funerals...

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We should whisper our prayers tonight
before we go to bed tonight
our souls shall slumber onto the brink of eternity
in God’s home filled with his many mansions
tomorrow morning is coming
time to plan our burial
our hollowed bones and mundane flesh
will be incinerated into a rubble of floured...

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It’s both a bitter funeral for freedom
and the birth of new crime....

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Elephants don't plan funerals
though I seriously wish they would
then dogs may weep in their quieter moments
at some elephants death you know 
most black cats watch unaffected
necessarily by nature vicious
believing elephants might be exotic 
mountains in sad imaginary spaces
But it's the elephants I need to mention
a...

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with the corona virus upon us
I am bracing to hear the news
that so and so has died

I reflect back
on all the people in my life
that I have already lost

part of being older
is that you lose people
close to you along the way

I lost my father due...

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They closed my mother's casket
to be buried next to Dad today.

The crowd  that came to honor her
began to walk away.

Nothing left but tiny breeze 
a cold and lonely final stare,

and I her dear beloved son 
just standing there,

just standing there.

I'm left with only shadows
and...

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We don't discuss death
Civilized folk use funeral parlors
Funeral at home? Why on earth
We're good, clean entrepreneurs

The next generation never learn
How death is life, too, recycling
Part of life, why fear it, discern
God gives us children to go on living...

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Look out you might see them
scuttling down your street
patting the neighbour’s dog 
nodding to people they meet

They lurk on hospital corridors
wearing their black shiny shoes
then scour obituary columns
for all their latest news

They follow people on stretchers
to sickbeds, funerals, and wakes
asking for extra cups of tea
turning...

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