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Best Obituaries Poems

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Premium Member Sunday Morning
Sunday Morning
I try not to wake him, though he stirs slightly
As I crawl out from the warmth of the covers.
I'm tempted to change my mind,...

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Categories: obituaries, child, children, family, morning,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member When a Friendship Dies
When a friendship dies
no mourners come
with last respects to pay

There’s nothing 
but the silence
where there once was much to say

Old comforts
feeling awkward
if in happenstance we...

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Categories: obituaries, confusion, life, loss, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Write a Happy Poem!
dear tormented soul,
what are you out to gain?;
why do you toil in misery,
why are you in so much pain?

persecuting others,
because of what they say;
if you...

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Categories: obituaries, uplifting
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dead Crush
"Dead Crush"



Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a 
conversation would 
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering 
watered-down honey
not so pristine,...

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Categories: obituaries, courage, freedom, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poets You Set Life Free
Let’s take a ride, how about traveling, to outer space, 
Just accept anything’s possible, it’s our cosmic chase,
Moving faster than light speed, in the blink...

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Categories: obituaries, appreciation, education, internet, meaningful,
Form: Quintain (English)



Letter To Taeljejohn
uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.

A disappointment set in place in the event that based...

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Categories: obituaries, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stan the Man--Stan Lee a Dedication
Stan the Man--Stan Lee a DEDICATION

He who that says that he is I am
I am Stan the man
Stanley Martin Lieber was born on December 28,...

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Categories: obituaries, analogy, appreciation, books, community,
Form: Free verse
We'Re Living In a World Today
We livin in a world today,
Where its streets over home
Heartaches where pain rome…
Its guns before goodies,
Babies before books…
Boys before brothers,
& family below lovers…
Its sex without...

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Categories: obituaries, black african american, brother,
Form: Blank verse
Interesting
He scanned through the newspaper,
but couldn't find anything fascinating to read
or see, except for the obituaries. 

He was very certain he had seen his tenant,
Mr....

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Categories: obituaries, funny, humor, humorous, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Wild, Wild West
Magazine ads and newspaper obituaries
skitter across the streets
like tumbleweed in the desert.
Rims the size of carriage wheels roll by.
Everyone's holsters are filled,
even the children carry...

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Categories: obituaries, cowboy-western, history, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Getting To the "gist" of the Matter!
So as not to come under the scrutiny of an oncologist,
Each six months to check my moles I visit my dermatologist!
His exam is as thorough...

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Categories: obituaries, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member By How Many Badbyes Can You Measure the Length of Your Day
     by how many badbyes can you measure the length of your day

        ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituaries, age, loneliness, memory,
Form: Free verse
And Along Came a Spider
Sometimes the wholeness of the universe
Comes along like a black widow spider
On a thin thread and stops in front of one’s face

From fear and dread
All...

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© Mel Brake  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituaries, allegory, imagery, insect, life,
Form: Free verse
Corruption Fake News
Corruption Fake News


Government corruption, engulfs us every day
It's bad enough we have to see the down slide on its way

Many people disappear connections can't be...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituaries, america, corruption, imagination, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
A Funeral
Death and its mournful tidings
Obituaries and eulogies, read
Black ties and black veils, all in rows
Surround this shell and the open earth
The cold, damp wind sashays...

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Categories: obituaries, dark, death, death of
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs