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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.

Angola Silence

Angola Silence  (Renku)


In a silent mood
Await the pure white horses
To draw the carriage 

Someday comes my turn
Laid amidst the other graves
Angola will reign 

Carry

Categories: brother, death, football, prison,

Armageddon It

When End of Days marked every soul,
The Bells from Hell, as well, would toll.
This mad prophesy, sadly written,
Had the Devil badly smitten.

We had to face

Categories: death,

Severed

When you were around things seemed plain,
just how things should be to my brain,
now I look around all in vain,
we’re all less for losing you.
Worse,

Categories: death, grief, loss, moving

Offered my respects

what could i do
but stop and let pass
the funeral procession
for a beloved horse 
who lived a life
fraught with nobility



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Categories: appreciation, death, life,

The monetisation of black death

The greed of the white man knows no bound
It transcends life, it transcends death
Their eyes gleam with profit
Their mouths salivate at another black death
Prices heightened

Categories: corruption, death, discrimination, funeral,

Death of a Young King

Eight of the strongest and bravest of warriors were gathered in all
Each chosen for their strength, each the same in weight and in tall

Their task

Categories: death,

Christmas In July

I'm sorry I didn't bring 
roses to your funeral. 

I brought a Christmas 
wreath instead. 

I didn't want to symbolize 
your withering, 

I wanted to

Categories: christian, christmas, death, death

For Felix

I went to drink 
coffee at one of those 
cute little coffee-drinking 
places, and I couldn’t 
help but think of 
you. 

I tried 
not to.

Categories: death, 10th grade, 11th grade,

That Blighted Rose

So plant it on that petrichoric soil in rows 
As you bring at my funeral that pure ruby rose

And so? If I'm unable to perceive

Categories: death, 12th grade, 6th grade,

Recycled

Born out of time, 
I felt different from mankind. 
As a child I would fly at night 
and leave the body behind.

Soaring like an eagle
I

Categories: death, earth, eulogy, funeral,

To be black in a white world

The price of being black In a white world 
Is the cost some of us can't afford 
A currency we don't own
Not because we don't

Categories: death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,

A funeral for myself

It was a funeral for myself 
And I still haven't buried her yet
The sky opened up and released its anger 
Rained down in grief and

Categories: death, discrimination, funeral, prejudice,

In One City

I know a funeral when I walk into one
I can tell between a funeral and a burial
They are two entirely different artworks
One is done on

Categories: community, death, farewell, funeral,

Never say that she is dead

We will not say that she is dead.
We have never said that she is dead. 
We will never say that she is dead. 

We’ll say

Categories: death, funeral, goodbye, grandparents,

Cemetery

Get too close and i tend to push away
Come real close and ill be prayin that you stay 
ion fk with these hos
from them i

Categories: break up, change, death,