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Funeral Loss Poems

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

Premium Member Lorenzo
Uncooked 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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Categories: loss, death of a friend,

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: loss, abuse, america, community, cry,
Premium Member In the End
I felt a funeral, in my brain
Somber people gathered
All in black
So many tears
The TRUTH revealed
People DID Care!!
Shovels of dirt cover me 
It's raining soil on...

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© Sam Harty  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: death, depression, grief, loss,
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: loss, 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: loss, bereavement, best friend, cat,

Premium Member If it wasn't for poetry
With the sudden loss of my dear wife,
In distant home land, I could not save her of heart attack,
With funeral pyres cremating her on banks...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: loss, poetry,
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: loss, 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: loss, 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: loss, 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: loss, christian, death, death of
50 Years Almost
I can hear her choking back tears, soft silent sobs echo through the phone as she tells me
“If he were still alive, we’d have been...

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Categories: loss, death, emotions, granddaughter, grandfather,
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: loss, bereavement, courage, death, grief,
Premium Member Tree
A murder of crows screech my funeral song,
disturbing the eerie silence that surrounds.
Heartless hands have left scars etched into my crumbling bark,
as bleeding sap drips...

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Categories: destiny, earth, loss, silence,
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: loss, bereavement, death, death of
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: loss, cry, death, deep, funeral,

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