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Funeral Lyric Poems

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


Taking Back
Memories from 2020: 

TAKING BACK
Artist: Michelle Morris
Artist's Description
When we're let down by love and feel betrayed, we need to stand up and take back our...

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Categories: break up, emotions, light,



Message of Gratitude
The bereaved family,
Would like to thank the friends and relatives,
for spiritual, moral and financial support,
rendered to the family during the funeral of the late,
who answered...

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Categories: lyric, bereavement, caregiving, thanksgiving,

This Is a Funeral
This is a funeral
Why don't you accept
This is a funeral
And this is the death

The candles are burning
The red curtains drawn 
The oak casket glittering
Like a...

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Categories: death,

Reaching Eighty-Five
Reaching eighty-five           

 All of a sudden I’m eighty-five
and start remembering of things past
and begin...

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Categories: age, change, death, family,

Premium Member My Trip To the Lake
Hounds prowl beneath a cold-blooded moon.
Torchbearers cross the levee in unions of two,
Each boasting of the mischief he’ll do.
Ghosts follow hard in Lucifer’s tracks.
Hell’s dignitaries,...

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Categories: allegory, halloween,



Premium Member Funeral Strut - Po' Boy On a Fat Tuesday
Hey there, little Buddha, 
Let me join your Mistick Krewe.
Got my jazz hand clapping. 
Gonna drop the other shoe.
I strut my yo-yo yoga every doo-da...

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Categories: allegory, parody,

Premium Member Remembering Warren Zevon
(1943-2003)

He was a renegade. 
He was a rebel all his days.
Then something broke inside. And I, I --  
I cried and cried when Warren...

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Categories: death, funeral, grief, music,

Final Lullaby
Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like...

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Categories: death, eulogy, funeral, Lullaby,

Premium Member My Broken Heart
  "Loved you then.  Love you still. 
Always have, and always will."

           ...

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Categories: lyric, grief, heart, love,

Premium Member Moonlight Ghost Resemblance
Tears flow in torrents,
spasmodic gulp and shiver,
I weep aloud when haunted by some moonlight ghost resemblance
my dead cousin’s fleeting angel halo to the fore.
Shrouded in...

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Categories: lyric, art, care, character, deep,

Silent Refusal
A little hidden, beautiful, and tranquil aquarium 
With an amazing view of the subterranean dome. 
The ache may be the sign of worsening emotion,
From a...

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Categories: lyric, corruption, funeral, hurt, introspection,

I Need You
Poem: I need you

Mom, you’ve left us so unexpected
Since then, I feel nothing inside
You were my shadow
Now you’re gone, I feel so hollow
I admit, 
when...

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Categories: addiction, anxiety, conflict, dark,

Premium Member Flower of Carnage
[Paraphrase-translation of the song from Lady Snowblood.]

Bright dusk buried in snow
Only the sound of a baying hound
And my wooden geta break the silence
I stride with...

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Categories: angel, anger, character, cry,

The Stench of Death
THE STENCH OF DEATH,
It started in china, It started in Wuhan, It visited Italy,
It visited the mighty land of the POTUS, It is here and...

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Categories: africa, allah, analogy, appreciation,

Our Friends From the Underworld
OUR FRIENDS FROM THE UNDERWORLD ©

Soul to soul, our echoes roll
Melancholy from the depth of my divine despair
And a rush of blood which causeth bloodshot...

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Categories: lyric, 1st grade, death, death


Book: Shattered Sighs