Funeral Friend Poems
These Funeral Friend poems are examples of Friend poems about Funeral. These are the best examples of Friend Funeral poems written by international poets.
For Cecil
A silent prayer was spoken –
A gentle life grew dim.
So many hearts were broken –
As you hurried home to Him.
A song, a word, reflecting –
Your...
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friend, appreciation, christian, death, faith,
Erinna Distaff TranslationERINNA
Erinna is widely regarded, at least by those who have read her, as second only to Sappho among the ancient Greek female poets. Little is...
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friend, child, childhood, death, death
CaraThe wounded warrior can barely stand
A beautiful speech therapist
Now leans only on a flimsy , breaking branch
The battlefield , a hospital. Diagnosis:...
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friend, cancer, death, death of
CECYL, SON OF OUR SOIL : CONSUMMATE REVOLUTIONARY{Poet’s Note : I wrote this poem for the passing of my very dear friend & comrade, Cecyl Esau, Umkhonto we Sizwe Commander in 2021,...
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friend, africa, allegory, character, death
The Day Of DyingThe eerie thing is
The day of your dying
Will be a normal day
You may need to clear your head
You step out, saying bye...
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friend, anxiety, bereavement, death, death
Left-Under-StoodThe other day when you left you did so for good
You had left before but you always came back you always knew you could
Everytime you...
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friend, death, death of a
Flight To HeavenThis is my final goodbye to my bestie pooh bear
Steve Lyman
Today my heart is really grieving
As my besties finally leaving
To his new home in...
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death of a friend,
The Reports of Her Passingeven heaven’s stars can be misaligned
the reports of her passing greatly exaggerated
a wrong number and evil intent came together
“How is my friend?”
“She died today.”
“When are...
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Categories:
death of a friend,
CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4CATULLUS TRANSLATIONS 4
Catullus LXV aka Carmina 65
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hortalus, I’m exhausted by relentless grief,
and have thus abandoned the learned virgins;
nor can my...
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friend, brother, death, death of
Bad News, Morose NewsIt’s like being hit by a meteor
Where there’s no tomorrow
It is like doomsday, really
Where everything is ugly
And absolutely nothing is pretty
I just received the bad...
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friend, dark, death, death of
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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death of a friend,
Tearfuli'm writing these tearful words
in the hope they'll reach you somehow.
I'm still in shock,
can't quite believe you're gone,
that you suffered for so long,
like some sort...
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death of a friend,
BreatheBreathe Again
Did I truly accumulate years of experience, or were they merely years of monotonous repetition? The echoes of my past reverberate, etching pain into...
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friend, abuse, age, allah, allusion,
Never let it anesthetize your soulOnly the dead have seen the end of the war. - George Santayana
Even when I sit at my window,
Watching birds peck the sunflower seeds,
Feeling blessed...
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friend, death, death of a
The Passing Of A PoetessYou left
After death
Knocked at your door
No need to say more.
We painfully grieved
We recited your poems.
We cried like grown kids
As you lay
Silently surrounded
By a dazzling array...
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friend, death, death of a