Get Your Premium Membership

Funeral Ode Poems

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


The Preacher's Odyssey
Thomas, an apostle of Jesus,
Called 
Or so presumed.

He was not an angel.
No, 
He never claimed. 
Although he played the part well.

Brother Tom,
Like we all called...

Read More
Categories: analogy, grief, religious,



Premium Member Ode To Duno My Friend
You made me laugh so hard
maybe the hardest I have ever laughed
When I met you I wondered if we would get along
Seventy-two to my twenty-nine,...

Read More
Categories: ode, friend,

Lerato Gave Me Love
Thank you, Old Lerato, for your love
To myself, an insignificant boy.
You empowered me with the love you gave
For love builds and doesn't destroy.
I remember how...

Read More
© Abel Jae  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: best friend, boy, death

Premium Member Her Final Say
She lay silent in her hospital bed
Surrounded by light, whispering softly
Her worry, pain, sorrow, darkness and dread
Long gone, comforter left her awfully
Tranquil like the peace...

Read More
Categories: appreciation, courage, dark, death,

Premium Member Ode To Yseult
Woman, woman that I loved uncommonly
Several springs ago
When the weather was good and callow
When the wind whistled swiftly, low and slow
Oh! Woman, you were young,...

Read More
Categories: ode, angel, eulogy, funeral, heartbroken,



Ode To Bara
Journey man
Chef of Choral cuisine
Sunset at Dusk
Drained of Melanin
A voice heard across generations
Stilled in immirimious waters
Strange silence 
As hearts fearfully flutter
What deafening silence is this?
An...

Read More
Categories: ode, angst, brother, farewell, friendship,

Ode To Death Redux
he who wields scythe aloft
to reap a withered and ageing crop
the harvest of the doomed and lost
who fell to their winter's frost 

the skeletal hand...

Read More
© Chris Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, anxiety, autumn, death,

Premium Member My Godmother Passed
My godmother passed
On August the 9th
Her age was 91 years 
A long life she had

A funeral gathering held
For family and friends
Only a party of 10...

Read More
Categories: death of a friend,

Champion
The misty morning reaches
for the mighty—
the air, flummoxed,
as they crash into 
the little-known darkness.

Another life—taken,
reaching for the mighty,
clutched by
the merciless fogs of death...

He was a...

Read More
Categories: appreciation, death, death of

Ode To Death
he who wields scythe aloft
to reap a withered and ageing crop
the harvest of the doomed and lost
who fell to their winter's frost 

the skeletal hand...

Read More
© Chris Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, death, destiny, fate,

Ode To Peach Amsterdam Vodka
you are the sick
the disgust in the swallow
the cringe in the choking

we are the same in our affections
cheap and quick
taste and spit
we are the same...

Read More
Categories: ode, addiction, anger, angst, corruption,

Sandy Hook Elementary School Rampage December 14 2012 Prayer Part One
Tribute to those slain at sandy hook elementary school ™

I read the terribly tragic news oh boy
about unlucky kids 
   at a Connecticut...

Read More
Categories: dark, devotion, emotions, funeral,

Farewell Brother
#FAREWELL, BROTHER
by
Hannah Rain

Lowering him down upon his curved back,
On silky blue sheets, all pleated and tacked,
A pillow they stuffed beneath his cold head,
And combed his...

Read More
Categories: brother, farewell, friend, funeral,

Premium Member Ode To Nicola Fabiano
I remember I was a little girl
sent off on an errand by my dad
surrounded by a small group of men
marveling at the questions I answered...

Read More
Categories: ode, grandparents,

Premium Member History In a Black Robe
Waves of anticipated distance- cheerfulness and goodwill
reasons to part quite enormous
reflected in displayed emotions
long hugs, passionate waves, incomplete smiles and contact exchanges.
Queues and checkpoints, controls...

Read More
Categories: eulogy, farewell, funeral, grief,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things