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Loss Funeral Poems

These Loss Funeral poems are examples of Funeral poems about Loss. These are the best examples of Funeral Loss poems written by international poets.


Hoping an End
Woke up amidst the screaming cries, dared to stare through the window
Eyes couldn't believe a thousand corpses lying, hands couldn't recognize the skulls
The day before...

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Categories: funeral, abuse, america, community, cry,



Premium Member Never let it anesthetize your soul
Only 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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Categories: funeral, death, death of a

Premium Member A Petal Amongst The Thorns 1918


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Categories: funeral, angel, bereavement, death, devotion,

Premium Member Colors of Grief

Arising in softest sapphire,
Shimmery as the night,
Inviting silence to release her,
Tears flowing, thick and sincere,
Breaking through melancholy,
Trembling with dark dread,
Erasing all the soul’s vivacity –
Erasing...

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Categories: appreciation, christian, death, funeral,

Premium Member Tune of Tears
In passing, hearts risk their very essence, their colors, their breathe,
Love who touched the soul, then moved on, toward heaven’s hungry light,
Souls soon reflect the...

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Categories: funeral, death, death of a



Sweet Gizmo
Gilded in a shroud of leaves
Some of my favorite yet so abundant
They will hold you till you are no more 
Yet so much more than...

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Categories: funeral, bereavement, best friend, cat,

Premium Member Defeat
All beings must face defeat one day
No one is spared of this mortal tray
Trust me; it is never easy to lose
Your destiny is the chthonian...

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Categories: funeral, death, death of a

Our Nile
"Do not stand by my grave and weep", they said.
Here's something she would have said instead.
"Hey, smile, all of your smiles are beautiful."
Hers was more...

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Categories: funeral, angel, cry, extended metaphor,

Premium Member Agreeing To Disagree
He taunted me with hope
When there was no hope for us.
We were past, the past
Gone from today and tomorrow,
Boldy planted in the memories who haunted
Me...

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Categories: funeral, death, divorce, marriage, relationship,

Premium Member For Dwight Mcintosh
Patriarch, Dwight McIntosh
Friendly and kind, always a smile
Filled with joy, oh my gosh –
Love so alive, love that’s still in style

Patriarch, the man of the...

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Categories: funeral, christian, death, death of

Premium Member The Oak and the Pine
Like the oak, standing tall
Among the pines and juniper trees,
She remains strong – never releasing a tear,
Always prepared to reassure her kids,
Sooth and encourage, whisper...

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Categories: funeral, bereavement, courage, death, grief,

Grief
You feel bone tired, you lay down
You stay wide awake, mind blown
Eyes red, skin puffy, chest sore
You dont know about anything anymore
Everyone appears to treat...

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Categories: funeral, bereavement, death, death of

Premium Member When Doves Cry
Ice formed in craggy spirals 
Upside down and billowed
on the outstretched arms
of a winter dead willow
still awaiting Spring’s charm

sunlight peered through 
the glistening frozen crystals...

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Categories: christian, death, eulogy, funeral,

Preplanned Funneral
Funerals are sad I know
But be happy on mine
So that I can sleep peacefully
Six feet under the sign,

A fine cut stone piece sign
Above my grave
That...

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Categories: cry, death, deep, funeral,

Premium Member While
While bouquets flaunted their fullest bloom:
roses and lilies I assume,
I only saw gray, black, and white,
consumed in disbelief. 

While friends and kin folks gathered around,
with...

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Categories: funeral, bereavement, death, devotion, emotions,


Book: Shattered Sighs