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Eulogy Poems | Examples of Eulogy Poetry

Eulogy Poems. Read and share great examples of poetry about eulogies. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for eulogy.
Premium Member FLIP-FLOPPING TO DEATH
A FLIP-FLOPPING DEATH Seeking its freedom, A fish leaps from its fishbowl; Flip-flopping to death:-...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, 7th grade, allegory, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member We Shall Return With Zilch
Believe it or not The Parson is right We shall return with zeroes Many zeroes. Let’s be Heroes For and to the world. Let’s not be selfish Because we shall return with zilch With nada, mit nichts, perhaps with empty...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, america, anti bullying, death,
Form: Rhyme



Escaping Death
Escaping Death (written in a mental hospital) I escaped from Death today, And I don't know what to think. Because when Death comes round and round, you start to feel his scent and stink. There are...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, absence, age, allegory, dark,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Double Souls
Today our eyes spill tears, heavy with sorrow, For two double souls lost in this cold, dreary week. Yet with the dawn, the heartache will soften by morrow, As we remember the peace your spirits now seek. Though broken...Read the rest...
Categories: angel, cousin, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teachers
For teachers are the torch the gods may send, Whose patient light, the wounds of darkness mend; Who, but they bring beginning, there be end. ...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, blessing, education, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member HAIL TO THE KING ON HIS BIRTHDAY
HAIL TO THE KING ON HIS BIRTHDAY Today, let’s celebrate MLK’s birthday; His dream seemingly deferred, but not deterred:- His reality lives and his dream of liberty is on the way; His “I Have A Dream” legacy speech, reality...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, 12th grade, angel, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hades, a Fragment
To journey, yet alive, through Hades’ Gates, Brings sorrow to the world, and to the Fates. Yet Hades is the home accepting all, And I shall catch thee, if thou choose to fall. Then stand within my warm, eternal...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, destiny, devotion, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Shine Shine Mama
The incubator of my life Who shines more than the twinkling stars and blazing moon In the Africa twilight; And glitters more than precious gold's and diamond's of Africa I see you! Mama, Whose dimples, from where I scoop animation; Are...Read the rest...
Categories: africa, culture, eulogy, literature,
Form: Free verse
An Ode to the Doctors
They, who are readily and always available; Checking if your vital signs are stable. They work round the clock with lives in their hands. Carrying out nature's most delicate command. They go into the surgical room without an...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Shallow Hours
In Shallow Hours, graves are dug By words morose, Their hollow powers seem mundane, But are much worse. Being Lonely in a crowded room, With empty words Muttered by survivors; Whose frosty breath in time, With...Read the rest...
Categories: cry, death, eulogy, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Eulogy of Void
Some memories never die As some people never cry, They just laugh and laugh till they die. It's not cry that measures their pain, Instead it's their laugh that rest of us failed to gain. Let's take it to our...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, cry, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In a Sigh
I said goodbye, with a soft sigh. No words could explain this moment, Shadows of doubt, shaded by death Impressing the notes of a song, breathless and wild Restoring my faith, yet it wouldn’t see the grace, Beneath the autumn...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy, blue, death, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earth's Eulogy Unread
I lift and rise to being chased, pops half-way, till full, beamed round-faced, a fire host heightened its facade, casting daylight shadows abroad. Cool Earth plunged hot by its keeper, heat courses like the Grim Reaper, smiles at darkness to wait...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Soul Storm
Do not listen for me in wind whispers Or echoes down the lane, My spirit would never settle For such quiet and mundane. I won't be found in soft starlight Or twinkles on velvet snow, Toward things quiet and serene Isn't...Read the rest...
Categories: bereavement, death, eulogy, meaningful,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Jimmy Carter
Here lies President Jimmy Carter: a spoiler to the Jews and to the Arabs a martyr!...Read the rest...
Categories: eulogy,
Form: Epitaph

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