If My Poems Were EulogiesIf being pretty were a crime, you’d already be behind the bars
Because angels look at their reflection and wish they had your smile
And I’m not sentimental, but to you I must confess:
I’ve waited ages to find someone whose beauty can compare
If my poems were eulogies, you’d be nothing short of dead
Because not romanticizing you...
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Categories:
eulogy, 11th grade, boy, crush,
Form: Free verse
Virginia WoolfHave you read the note?
It speaks of the doom of the liquid element.
An inclement weather, grey, and with the fuss of a bleached lightning,
Besieges the tick of the clock.
Must have been a bland Sunday, which retreated
From the temerity of old wine,
Haunted by the lonesome refrains of exhausted hymns.
The belfry yawned loosely....
But quiet crept in like...
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Categories:
eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Mother Teresa
USPS 2010 : Mother Teresa 100 Anniversary
Overcoming many ups and downs,
pacing the pious path God paved for her,
Mary Teresa born in Albania
became Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
Tormented by the agony of the destitute
she brought them to her home,
to where she felt they should be,
for everybody in her eyes is born equal.
She heard...
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Categories:
eulogy,
Form: Ekphrasis
AnuruedoahuIn Biafra, when we drank from the tilting
cusps of dank leaves and washed with the spittle
of cassava,
the sun scorched like hell.
Añuruedoahu*, the oasis of war, like worldly
cowrie, stagnant, yet devoid of rural fetish,
calmed our nerves and built in the altar of
our souls hopes of answered prayers.
*A mysterious stream in the poet's village....
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Categories:
eulogy, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Ode to a JournalistYou made up your mind to view the world
With different eyes —eyes recessed, eyes inundated with lustre,
Straining to catch every flight of the dancing seasons that hurled
Man and beast beyond frontiers with baluster.
You are the town-crier of our time, delivering messages printed on...
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Categories:
dedication, eulogy, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Better than the bestBetter than the best by Adejola Joseph
Better than the best.
Lyrically incomposable
Infatuations of idealist
Permutations of scientist
Schools of thoughts of the psychologist
Variant opinions of mathematicians
Part of speech of grammarians
Miracles of the clergies
I am better than the best
Better than the best....
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Categories:
eulogy,
Form: Free verse
I Am From pt1I was born and raised in my house, which isn’t home.
At heart, I am from the orange brick house in Westridge Farms
Where I never even lived
There, the pawprints I stamped on the driveway may have long since washed away
But I still left my mark
Even if it was just in the eyes of the horses that...
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Categories:
childhood, death, eulogy, feelings,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Eulogy for a CrowI've made up my mind
going to clean out the attic today
leaving nothing but cobwebs behind...
photos of people without names
car seats -chrome tables - baby rattle snakes
dented pots and pans
a guitar slouches in the corner without hands
dreaming of chords never woven
songs never molded from clay.
It's all just ex-rated anyways
it's all just excess anyway.
Things of...
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Categories:
eulogy, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Man of mercyHe was a man who knew how to knock out another man.
Against amateurs, there was just no match for him.
4 years of tough man competitions, he walked away with
the title everytime.
I worked with him for over 10 years and had many talks about boxing.
He told me about how he got to spar Tyson...
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Categories:
eulogy, sports,
Form: Elegy
Shattered Dreams In The Sky
Dreams were shattered like glass shards,
As innocent lives were pushed into the jaws of death.
Some doctors, engineers, accountants, and bards,
Extinguished were the candles of their breath.
A wife was on her way to meet her spouse,
While the daughters and sons aspired to study abroad,
Alas! Fate destroyed someone's beautiful house,
As the passengers were destined to embark...
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Categories:
death, emotions, eulogy, in
Form: Rhyme
A eulogy for the me I had to kill to surviveA eulogy for the me I had to kill to survive
She lay in a casket
I was the killer
But was it really me?
When the world gripped her hand and told her to kill her blackness
She stared in a mirror
Full of sadness
Knowing she would kill her last bit of innocence
So did I...
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Categories:
eulogy, betrayal, funeral, grief, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
When We Say GoodbyeWhen we say goodbye,
Time will not stand still.
Life moves on as it always has,
Forsaking my own will.
Don’t try to feel sad—
I’ll know it’s all a lie.
You didn’t love me while alive;
Don’t pretend to care when I die.
I was a burden to so many,
In my youth and old age.
I’d rather go out quietly
Than force a false...
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Categories:
absence, death, eulogy, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
LaikaThey called it a seat,
but it was a cradle of fire—
metal-wrapped, bolted shut,
no window,
just the hum of wires
and the memory of old Moscow snow
still clinging to your pads.
They fed you well
and fastened you in
with practiced hands
that trembled only later.
You blinked once—
trusting, calm—
a good girl ascending
where no stray should go.
The capsule ticked
like a settling house—
soft clicks...
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Categories:
eulogy, animal, betrayal, death, dog,
Form: Free verse
Without wallsThere's a place without walls.
For those who swear that they are floors.
and oh how they die like a flowers bloom
they lie so still in forgotten tombs
(It's not to late to care)
Oh how I miss the lunar gloom
back when stars filled the sky with forgotten tunes.
Come and take my hand don't be afraid.
here are all...
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Categories:
death, deep, eulogy, flower,
Form: Ballad
Lost in thoughtI tend to get lost back at the beginning,
such a beautiful end. I don't need to be in love
I can just pretend.
I walk open handed on endless beaches
leavening shallow footprints for someone to find.
My imagination runs wild on the winds of maybe.
I get lost in forever skies, leading me away.
never wanting to find the...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, courage, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Eulogy Poems
Definition | What is Eulogy in Poetry?
Poems Related to Eulogy
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