In Memoriam Poems | Examples of Poems In Memory of Someone Who Has Died

“Death can never separate us. Each time you feel a gentle breeze, It's my hand caressing your face.” By Mary Lucas The first bell intoned its dreary dirge. The feel of emptiness spread all around. I was not afraid. I felt tall and steady. Night began to obscure the light of day. I began my lonely trek around...

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A heron watched me from painted rushes, brush-stroked by a man who lived in a wagon lacquered with stars and road-dust and wind, who sometimes drank too much and thundered. They say he wandered for years, trading canvases for bread, for gas, for silence— until his heart gave out beneath a turquoise sky. His wagon still sat out back, faded scallops of red and...

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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 everything that makes up you Hard to accept that you are no longer here Keep waiting for the moment when you reappear It really hit me, hearing the songs you wrote Nobody else could...

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Been raining all week. This morning started off with a bit of sun and it got me reminiscing. About my youth. About you. Next month marks one year since your passing. We spent the last seven months of your life visiting, chatting after a thirty plus year estrangement. As time passes rough edges begin to...

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Standing here by the shore Far beyond my long gaze I see the earth and sky closer My memory turns into quiet sea That reflects through generations Every thoughts I have is all For everyone I dearly love whom Like dew on grass - pure, sincere And filled with light but now long gone Time slows down to let me whisper To my ancestors in...

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I have to come clean as I return to see your ashen corpse and dried leaves My survival became more important than yours but now I feel badly. Humans choose to love their own selves More than anyone they choose to love Don’t believe what they say in their poems I loved you because you would tempt...

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this is a true if near impossible contest how can you write a poem about mourning and honouring the ones deceased in a war without it being somewhat political you do not have to be a feminist and as a man I hope to be one to know that the personal is political and the private is a very public sphere making decisions...

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He Is Risen (A Linking Pin Sonnet in the Spence Style) The stone was rolled—rolled far from death’s command, Command could not contain the Son of light. Light broke the tomb and touched the trembling land, Land kissed His feet, awakened by His might. Might bowed to love, for love could not stay dead, Dead gave way when life began to...

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There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. —Aeschylus Happiness in Memoriam Each neuron tingles with happiness, in unnerving vise. Presently, the squeeze of brain, heart and grit, unbearable. The lion’s faint, tin clatters, straw pieces pecked, crows gather. ...

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POPE FRANCIS: A 5-7-5 EULOGISTIC TRIO A man of mercy, Teaching peace, love, and mercy; Leaving his spirit behind:- Timing and ready, Said goodbye the day before; Reflecting God's peace and Love:- A Pope to us all, A true Catholic Christian: A universal shepherd:- ...

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I had a son twenty years He wasn't like most teens his age He didn't need many friends and girls He's choosy though a bit introvert My boy was born brave and joyful Past that I know he was secretly sick Alone, he made his way to heaven In heaven, he watches over me At night, I dream his voice and his face Saying...

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Tell me the person You miss so much before who's Now is in the clouds....

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To remember them We place flowers and candles To light their way home....

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Adrift in some Mad American Empire I stand in my shadow as the future winds come Looking over the ruins of my nation! Eyes grow dim as the masses succumb Families cry as loved ones are stolen! What have we become A piece of crumpled banner flutters in the sky Blue field, a bold white name Are those bloody...

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