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Funeral Director Poems - Poems about Funeral Director

Premium MemberMafia Obituary

...Word for word your obituary was read 
everyone was there just like you said 
mostly enemies they weren't happy 
glancing at the photo you chose for 

the viewing ma was so brave too 
knowing fu...
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Categories: funeral director, allah,
Form: Qawwali

Premium MemberGp

...GP

She ran away when 
She was 13 years old
Nobody filed a 
Missing person report

Got in with a driver
All the things that he did
Made her convict uncle
Look like a picnic

She thought s...
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Categories: funeral director, abuse, addiction, beauty, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberFuneral Or No Funeral

...My uncle is dead.
Funeral or no funeral?
He was a blue baby; born dead.
Oxygen did not get to his brain in time.
The doctor worked on him too long.
He had multiple mental, social and emotional c...
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Categories: funeral director, funeral,
Form: Free verse

Reasons Why Not a Funeral Director

...Number of recordings of someone knocking on wood
expected inside a coffin...
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Categories: funeral director, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Death Wish

...I was sitting on the back veranda perusing through a book,
and I could find nothing in it that I should ever overlook.
I’m not certain that the contents would be welcome by my spouse,
for the titl...
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Categories: funeral director, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberVirtual Reality

...A yoga teacher unable to disentangle her legs

Trazepe artists suspended in mid air flight

Contortionist arrested for public indecency

The snake charmer caught in a muddy sand pit

Poets dr...
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Categories: funeral director, death, irony,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTom Died At Winter Solstice

...You asked us not to cry when you have passed on 
	But we do not need handkerchiefs we need storm water drains
		May the flash floods of tears irrigate your memory and wishes

To dance on your gra...
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Categories: funeral director, death, funeral, future,
Form: Epitaph

Evil Corpse In Post Mortem Habitation

...twisted chains in the very fabric of their existence...
come join in the resistance
shattered glass out on the patio
vanished corpse out of thin air
in peril the vortex shimmers at the call of na...
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Categories: funeral director, art,
Form: Free verse

Commuter Funeral Subway Ride

...We all gathered together in the Home Going of Harold Smiley
The story of life in a previous daily ride
But on this day, a deceased body traveling in the stride
A funeral will take place with Coffi...
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Categories: funeral director, bereavement, character, death, dedication,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberDark January

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Dark January


It was a snowy January night.
Unknown to us, my husband's mom had passed.
Alone, asleep with no one by her side,
Except for Kitty...pet of eighteen years.

Our he...
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Categories: funeral director, dark, january,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberOne Sandwich Short of a Picnic

...Funeral planning - oh what can I say
Not only are you coping with your loss
There is so much to arrange
The process took us hours and hours
Meet with the priest and funeral director
Book...
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Categories: funeral director, humorous, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGuess My Name

...I can be anything you like
the one to love you; your esquire,
I can be love’s greatest asset
or the hangman’s noose if of that you require.
I can be the bastard that spoils your day
or indeed th...
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Categories: funeral director, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Four Years Gone

...Of my life it’s been four long years of never-ending trips to the facility, you name it, in and out and up and down and over.ARGUMENTS? Don’t get me started. Every doctor and nurse on the plan...
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Categories: funeral director, bereavement, caregiving, death, death
Form: Blank verse

My Dad

...My Dad was Chicagoan.
He would light up a room just like my Mom. 
He loved to fish ! He loved his beer .
He also designed a Octagon home in the 70's 
Built custom by hand . I was very proud of Dad .
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Categories: funeral director, addiction, anger, betrayal, birth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Funerals

...“Coffins. Who’d of thought it? Catalogues for coffins. And the speed and efficient nature of funerals in general. I mean I know we’ve been doing them for years, but we’re very good at it aren...
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Categories: funeral director, cry, death, funeral, funny,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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