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Death Farewell Poems

These Death Farewell poems are examples of Farewell poems about Death. These are the best examples of Farewell Death poems written by international poets.


When Autumn Speaks
When leaves drop heavy as unsent
Letters upon the dampened earth,
I taste the copper in cold air—
Your warmth dissolved in autumn's dearth.

October fog wraps ash-grey threads
Around...

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Categories: farewell, cute love,



No One Understands

How in a twinkle of an eye,
Your life so make a lot of sense.
Now, the world heave a nasty sigh... 
What an atmosphere with such...

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Categories: farewell, age, car, death, family,

The Crime of a Dollar
The wealth of nations was once rooted
In toil, in grain, in honest trade.
But now—behold the phantom coin,
A paper god by empire made.

No longer tethered to...

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Categories: farewell, abuse, allusion, america, betrayal,

In the Hush of Night
O hush of night, you sacred veil,
Who cradles hearts when strength grows frail—
Receive this soul, so gently stirred,
Whose silent grief has gone unheard.

Receive this soul,...

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Categories: farewell, spiritual,

Eternity, the end game
Silent generation stay stoic, speechless, pout, watching time run out
Boomers shout while Gen X'ers rant
Millenials meanwhile, run fast, breathless, noisily  pant
Gen Zs the end...

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Categories: farewell, 12th grade, africa, anxiety,



The Crushing Crash
I got crashed; I became crashed;
There must be some reason;
I endured when I was lashed;
Still, all slandered me of treason.

I get flown by the Pilot,
Who,...

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Categories: cry, death, destiny, farewell,

When We Say Goodbye
When 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...

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Categories: absence, death, eulogy, farewell,

Premium Member Sympathies
Forget about it
Don’t think about it
It’s not important 
Put it out of your mind

Things I have been told

Advice for the lovelorn
The bereaved
The broken hearted
The lonely

Your...

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Categories: farewell, 12th grade, bereavement, break

Premium Member In Memory Of
So many friends came to say goodbye
Remember the good times, not going to cry
You were such a part of everyone you knew
A special someone for...

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Categories: farewell, bereavement, death of a

Goodbye George Wendt
George Wendt was an actor and he starred in "Cheers".
He loved to sit on that stool and drink plenty of beer.
He starred in many shows...

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Categories: celebrity, death, farewell,

Premium Member Invocation
I’m awaiting in the port of my life for a sign 
From the world of those who have departed
For I trust, my beloved, in angels
And...

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Categories: bereavement, farewell, feelings, goodbye,

Premium Member Funeral poem In A Better Place
When someone first dies and leaves us,
It’s hard to lift that sense of gloom,
When their body is no longer with us,
But their presence still fills...

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Categories: farewell, cry, death, death of

Mother, Father are weeping
Mother, father are weeping
Because the heavens didn’t send their heart a soul
The wind, their house is breaking
And the morning is very cold

Outside they find
With the...

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© Zoe Crout  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: baby, death, farewell, father,

Premium Member For Wynnis Johnson
We are life unto death sealed in its hold
  when mortal limits fill a dateless urn,
a worldly spirit in a spirit world
  for...

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Categories: death, dedication, farewell, teacher,

The Shed
The Shed
...was Granddad's before he died.
And now its loneliness reached out to the boy
from the shaded, shuffling shadows 
that shushed the sheltered garden.
They pulled, they...

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© Ian Souter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: farewell, grandfather, love,


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