Obituary Poems | Examples of Obituary Poetry

No immigrants allowed no women either no people with hearts none of the suffering my mind is full of torment and pain oh I could fit you in of that have no doubt no matter the insanity I would never inflict such horrors on others the...Read the rest...

Easy spirit. Bones erased into dust. Much heavy man made nothing in seconds. Justice is meaningless before the mountains of death Harmony in silence Waking inside a spider web of my own creation Junk food makes me...Read the rest...

Old picture seldom You can see them I have the chance To see one hid by time. A photo album of my Grandpa who still About ten years old Together with her mother A pre-colonial spanish motiff The mother wearing filipiniana My granpa in spanish...Read the rest...

T'was eighty two wonderful years, Before you left me with long tears, As you flew to a place not near, None of my cries you again hear. My loneliness follows the hearse, Your long loud silence made it worse, You now...Read the rest...

I was a schoolgirl then, in nineties Braided hair and full-blown inundation of dreams Yes. They still are strumming these to stack those feelings, intact As an old page of a novella still wash the eyelashes, with nothing...Read the rest...

Obituary Singular Although many All have the common thread What the years have given them Have been taken Only relatives have interest Or data keepers at best The likened groups That they belonged Are waiting Who will be next ...Read the rest...

Word for word your obituary was read everyone was there just like you said mostly enemies they weren't happy glancing at the photo you chose for the viewing ma was so brave too knowing full...Read the rest...

I am awoken by the summer night crickets and lighting that strikes the roof rod. The wind and the abnormally hot air that begets the ominous dark cloud filled with ice rocks and Gods tears. My...Read the rest...

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 will whisper with my dying breath...Read the rest...

Killing women and children Is absolutely unacceptable Executing sick and old men Is obviously low and despicable. You can make countless speeches You can invent endless excuses Slaughtering so many is genocidal Hurting so many can never be justifiable. The world is now...Read the rest...

I am here you didn't show up death is not an excuse I will put more coins in the parking meter if I have too until I run out of coins then run out of tears why oh why tickets and fines who cares? my purse is...Read the rest...

There will come a day When we will be just a tale Memory to tell....Read the rest...

It’s like being hit by a meteor Where there’s no tomorrow It is like doomsday, really Where everything is ugly And absolutely nothing is pretty I just received the bad news That my sister-in-law had died Suddenly and extemporaneously Without being sick tremendously I...Read the rest...

A patriarch falls Clear summer morning fog stings Family silent ...Read the rest...

Don't come, do not come Do not come to my funeral Do not come to my burial Stay home in a quiet room To read my God-given poems Be inspired and turn them into songs. You were absent in my life When...Read the rest...