Funeral Memory Poems

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


You learn more about people when they die

Shape of the mouths
Silence of the footsteps
Harmony  of the tears
Firmness of the handshakes
Emptiness of the buffet


Declare:
Were they in love or in need.
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Categories: funeral, irony, life, memory,


Young Widow

I’ve sold winter coldness to those who’re huge in their chests oncorners of these abandoned streets, where bars aren’t happy with myfootprints in front of
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Categories: memory, anxiety, art, caregiving, character,

Premium Member A CABIN FILLED WITH MEMORIES

I’ve said this before (and I’ll likely say it again!) about our cabin in the trees…
How it’s not just a cabin…it’s a cabin filled with
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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory,

Premium Member The Paradiddle of Being - Book One: The Struck World

I.

In the beginning was the Single Stroke Roll—
left-right, left-right, the primordial heartbeat
of existence itself, each alternation a binary choice
between being and non-being, the eternal paradiddle
of
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Categories: memory, childhood, identity, introspection, loss,

Premium Member In Memory Of

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
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Categories: memory, bereavement, death of a


Shots at a Funeral

When I was a baby, I cried at the sight of life
When I was child I slept to protest life 
When I was a teenager
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Categories: memory, angst, anxiety, death, depression,

The 6th Death Anniversary

2025.4.16
Six year passing.
It was an early Tuesday morning.
You laid on your sick bed without moving.
For a while, you laid still with your eyes closed.
I decided
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© C33 B66  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: memory, appreciation, april, best friend,

Premium Member Dad's Ties: Eulogy

A signature move
A classical look
Whether shopping down town
Or just reading a book

You would never undress
That space round your neck
A gent to the last
A quick twizzle
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Categories: memory, anniversary, appreciation, father, in

Driving Down Memory Lane

I was drivin’ down an old, worn black-top highway, on my way to a funeral.  It was mid-Missouri, and late summer made it hotter’n
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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: friendship, memory, nostalgia,

Rest Easy, Love

Rest easy, love. 
With your palms in the grass.

Rest easy, love
You’re at peace, at last.

The birds still chirp in the mornings.
The lightning bugs still fly
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Categories: memory, angel, death, funeral, goodbye,

Premium Member Paranormal Tales


Once upon a time in Dothan, Alabama 
During my after-My Mother's grandmother's 
Funeral,  It was a cold long night I began to
hear strange noises
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Categories: memory, allegory, childhood, destiny, emotions,

Premium Member Memory of Kerwin Rae - The man with a Mission

In Memory of Kerwin Rae - The man with a Mission

In loving memory of Kerwin Rae, who left us unexpectedly just days after celebrating his
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Categories: memory, inspiration, motivation, tribute, uplifting,

Premium Member RED

RED

One hundred years ago in Pollockshaws
A man was laid to rest,
From humble beginnings to a martyr
They buried Scotland’s best.

A man who stood for the people
A
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Categories: memory, anger, appreciation, community, education,

Premium Member Fading Photographs

A routine annual clean up
at the start of the New Year!
Among heaps of used up papers
and broken knick- knacks-
in the contents of her shelf’s drawer,
lay
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Categories: loss, love, memory,

Late Daughter

Poem that is written with each gentle kiss

Music I play twitching the corners of my lips

Art brush paint four magnum opus till death

Final one I
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Categories: memory, beautiful, child, death, depression,

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