Funny Memorial Poems

I saw epitaph
Engrave says, "He died of love".
Pinch my heart to laugh.
...

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Grand Hope Flower
CA Hospital over 
a century of healing
Construction din
all of downtown one 
enormous construction 
site with all its might 
peeling into daylight 

Executive traffic...

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There is an aura for the moment looking gloom 
Closing in on climatic resolution known as high noon 
Weather was dealt the color grey 
Heavy...

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My mother left me in January but she took her time
Dying a ridiculously horrible death which was a crime
Bone cancer is the way I do...

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It’s funny what we remember about people…
the little things that stick inside our head…
today I am remembering
something she always said. 

You knew there was something...

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7 LITTLE FIELD MICE WHERE ARE THEY NOW



There were 7 little field mice;
Living in the field;
One mouse cried;
It’s cold outside;
So pack of six;
Nibbled at the...

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Hardest days that I came over
Are no more here to break me silver 
I was blind for some useless reason  
And It couldn't yet...

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Karl (Ray) Johnson, A Remarkable Man

The first time I met this remarkable man 
I was just seventeen years old,
and as I stood to be introduced...

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On Memorial Day my Mom set off for the cemetery at dusk.
Paying her respect to her late husband was a must.
She and my brother David...

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Being sick with a snotty nose
A cough, fatigue, one of those colds???
For goodness sake's everyone knows
Grandmothers are too sophicated 
To wear anything but fancy clothes
Surely...

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Freedom's Destination

Some foreign country
Some funny name

After awhile
They all sound the same

Grandpa went first
Back then World War I

And didn't come home
'Til the job was all done

My...

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He died forty
with strength and wit
He left a son Young and young

He died nighty 
With bones no teeth
He left a boy pale and forty

They meet...

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The Perfect life, a wife half his age
Their house grand, with a zip code to match
No hawkers, appointments only

The library full of Shakespeare
Never opened, for...

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A Memorial to Dead Cows

By Elton Camp

Read this and laugh until you’re sick
It’s about PETA’s latest inane trick

In Illinois, memorials they’d install
For some cattle killed...

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Emotions a strange and funny thing
Its cause and effect and the actions they bring
We cry with laughter we cry when we're sad
It makes no sense...

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