Funeral Poems. Read and share great examples of all types of poems for funerals. This list of funeral poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. These beautiful, moving, and comforting poems for memorial services and funerals have the words that most of us do not have at these difficult times. Read them as a eulogy or include in an obituary. However, these funeral poems are not just for funeral services; they can merely be a way for poets to celebrate life or deal with the emotions of when a loved one dies. Read
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Late DaughterPoem that is written with each gentle kiss
Music I play twitching the corners of my lips
Art brush paint four magnum opus till death
Final one I will whisper with my dying breath...
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Categories:
funeral, beautiful, child, death, depression,
Form: Epitaph
Blood On Your HandsKilling women and children
Is absolutely unacceptable
Executing sick and old men
Is obviously low and despicable.
You can make countless speeches
You can invent endless excuses
Slaughtering so many is genocidal
Hurting so many can never be justifiable.
The world is now...
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Categories:
funeral, anti bullying, corruption, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Prayers are Said
Tears fight their way back
into their ducts for now
moist palms clammy at my sides
...
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Categories:
funeral, grief, loss, love,
Form: Elegy
Eulogy For A Loved OnePoem for Dad
Of flesh and blood
that nature gives to our breath
must one day be given back
for life was lent by Earth's hand
and now it is returned
Dad though lives always in us
He is the movement of...
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Categories:
funeral, dad, death, dedication, eulogy,
Form: Elegy
a good day for a funeralsummers sun shining
a slight breeze blows as we stand
trampled grass is soft...
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Categories:
funeral,
Form: Haiku
Saying goodbyeSaying goodbye to someone you've known for a long time can be the hardest thing to do...
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Categories:
death, funeral,
Form: Monoku
GOD SAVE THE QUEENGOD SAVE THE QUEEN
Of course, in the end, her end was inevitable
Reaching such an age, even in such as this age
A memorable funeral of Pomp and ceremony
A traditional Monarchy, perhaps even the last
Famous across the...
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Categories:
funeral, age, appreciation, career, celebration,
Form: Elegy
BUTTERFLIESDon't go weeping at my grave for I'm not there
I've a date with a butterfly to dance in the air
I'll play tag on the wind so wild n free
Waiting for the day you'll play with...
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Categories:
funeral, celebration, death, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Honor HimIn the tongues of a July hellfire arson,
he couldn't breathe,
became fallen in the flames.
A hero of life,
his undying duty immortal,
the alarm still sounds.
As his brethren salute him,
stand, honor him ~
his funeral procession draws near,
still eternally...
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Categories:
death, funeral, hero,
Form: Free verse
The GhostInspiring as it is
To be around the alive,
The whole thing does feel
Just a little contrived
I think rather be dead instead
Found by a wife,
Asleep
In a bed
...
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Categories:
dark, funeral, gothic, life,
Form: Rhyme
Crow
gatherings cawing
murder of crows in mourning,
congregation perched...
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Categories:
bird, funeral,
Form: Haiku
When words dont come easilyWhen Words Don’t Come Easy”
Today is the kind of day when words don’t come easily. The bouquet of flowers arrives at the house, and I find myself grappling with acceptance. Is she truly gone? Am...
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Categories:
anxiety, appreciation, funeral, good
Form: Blank verse
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 left it broke a piece of me away still stronger...
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Categories:
funeral, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Don't Bury Courtesy On the Political Prairie -Based on Western BalladOh don’t bury courtesy
on the political Prairie.
Where politicians rant
And tell words I can’t;
Say in a crowd
or even whisper out loud.
Oh bury courtesy not on the political Prairie.
Where the politicians...
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Categories:
america, eulogy, funeral, in
Form: Ballad
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 the sky
I'll say my final goodbye
To a friend I'll really...
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Categories:
funeral, death of a friend,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Funeral Poems
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