Funeral Death Poems
These Funeral Death poems are examples of Death poems about Funeral. These are the best examples of Death Funeral poems written by international poets.
The Bucket List BluesWhen my doctor calls me in, says I’ve got complications,
let’s not blow our savings, on round the world vacations,
my pre-paid funeral, is all that...
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Categories:
death, family, humor,
Sweet Yesterday - EphemeraLetter of the past,
Now a treasured piece,
Letter of gone years,
Now a keepsake.
She wrote it to show her love,
She wrote it to tell me how proud...
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Categories:
death, grandmother, lost love,
DON'T FORGET THE SEEDS
A favorite memory of her grandma began before she could even say a word…
In her Grandma’s backyard, sitting on her lap…tossing seeds out for the...
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Categories:
bird, death,
Memory in SolaceThere is a grave with no name
That stands lonelier still.
It has no flowers nor despairing mourners
And the grass grows thick and bushy,
For this grave is...
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Categories:
death, memory,
LorenzoUncooked grains of rice caked our apartment.
Dug themselves into my pliable plantar aspect
I welcomed you from the bottom of my being,
Into my soul,
A friend that...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
GhostI am cold and I drive myself away
From a grave made of clay
With yellow-colored edges,
And the earth as its lid.
I am cursed to accept myself...
A...
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Categories:
death, evil, funeral, humanity,
Mama Has LeftMama has left
She is no longer alive
She left Mother Earth
She is in the cemetery
Mom is further on
She is, here and there, really
Mother is gone
And no...
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Categories:
death, earth, funeral, goodbye,
Death by ClothingI worry that my coat will murder me.
Hanging on Banister’s Edge it’s a man lurking, dark.
I’ve seen rows of killers shadowed and waiting,
hidden in the...
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Categories:
death, analogy,
A Father's Decree
In realms beyond, where shadows dance with glee,
Draw near, sweet child, and heed my decree.
Though my earthly form resides, in silent repose,
My essence endures, as...
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Categories:
death, beautiful, bereavement, dad, dark,
A Seismic Afternoon Without Form, Name Or EndWe are going to dig to bury our dead:
Mother, father, sisters and brothers,
Uncles, aunts, friends and strangers.
We are going to inter our dead:
Archbishop, pastors, Houngans...
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Categories:
courage, death, eulogy, farewell,
Don't Come To My FuneralDon't come, do not come
Do not come to my funeral
Do not come to my burial
Stay home in a quiet room
To read my God-given poems
Be inspired...
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Categories:
death, betrayal, funeral, goodbye, grave,
Villanelle: Remembering Not to CallVillanelle: Remembering Not to Call
by Michael R. Burch
(a villanelle permitting mourning, for my mother, Christine Ena Burch)
The hardest thing of all,
after telling her everything,
is remembering...
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Categories:
absence, children, death, eulogy,
Take Her to Heaven
Take my mom to heaven, do it for me, so that one day I will find her there, waiting for me.
Take my mom to heaven,...
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Categories:
death, eulogy, farewell, funeral,
Hoping an EndWoke up amidst the screaming cries, dared to stare through the window
Eyes couldn't believe a thousand corpses lying, hands couldn't recognize the skulls
The day before...
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Categories:
death, abuse, america, community, cry,
Is it my timeThe window holds no joy anymore
There's no need for knocks on my door
My time, my hesitation subsides
Life's true mystery, no longer hides
My bed is my...
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Categories:
death, fate, funeral, god,