Short Eulogy Poems

Short Eulogy Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Eulogy by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Eulogy by length and keyword.


The Other Side

I loved, I laughed, I cried
I felt the ocean, watched the sky
I'm happy on The Other Side
Because I live, I did not die.
Form: Epitaph


The Feather

I am the wonderer  
Don't know where to hault, 
If you find me in your neighborhood, 
Just let me know whether am lost or not!
© John Mac  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Vanity Flair

On multiple planes
sing infinite socio-bytes
my waters flow pride
as they hide from sorry eyes
my hourglass tears turn to dust
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Absence

Absence of your footsteps and smile
Exit to an ethereal word
Leaving behind your legacy
Life appears and disappears like the fog
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Faded Burroughs

Tripwire slumber hush
blank catastrophic soulstice
cashmere solitude slush
tangerine blue hue cocktail
last summer older brother
Form: Tanka


Grandfather

In sacred gardens,
your heirloom roses ascend,
the chipped-paint trellis—
in yesterday’s reflections,
where petals fell long ago
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Hope S Gaughan

I had hoped for angels But in earth I will stay For my husband died first And he scared them away
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Here Lies Festus Sleape

We're asleep in this graveyard We can't hear you pout So please leave your flowers And get the hell out
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member D S Gruntled Rip

I've been whining for years And I know you'll agree That it's now safe to say It sucks ... to be me
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Dead Man

Stop acting like a dead man.
I know you're out there somewhere. 
I cannot bury you without a body.
I cannot breathe without my air.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member To A Sky

         star in the sky
        there before me
 I thought would always be
            now gone
             to a sky
Form: Elegy

Premium Member Cleriew Munch

Edvard Munch noted for an interactive scream
trembling anxietiy expressed in  dream
so famous you now can see
it expressed asan emoji
Form: Clerihew

The End

there came a time,
more than a moment
pained and slow, 
begging to surrender.

regrets flew, hopes landed
tears swam, games ended.
© A.O. Taner  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Vague

So blunt and brave
Words that rave
Awaken feelings from grave
Don't know when to cave
Beseech you to behave
Snuggle you in reserve.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rip M T Pocquettes

Here's a hammer for my debtors For my bills, I couldn't pay Just take a piece of marble And then please go away
Form: Epitaph

Premium Member Eulogy of a Shadow

And with a breath, or lack thereof, I whisper from the light of Night, 
And warn of what will wither whence 
The Day entombs thy sight.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Three Candles

Happy Birthday to my friend!
One third of the three,
in life’s twisted blend.
Unlikely in all ways,
but twined together till the end.
Form: Rhyme

Bogomil Graveyard

Gravestones lopsided
Forgotten behind the trees 
Surrounded by grass
Sun crosses risen from earth 
Crowned with some olive green mosh
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Mortuary Jingle

Be not sad,
Be joyful and glad
Listen to Tchaikovsky not Mahler
Throw a party
Laugh and eat hearty
At the Happy Smily Funeral Parlor.
Form: Lyric

Rose of Dedication

America
     Is the protein of the world  
     America
      Is the candle of Liberty

( To my role model in courage Abraham Lincoln)
Form: Lyric

Snoring Magna

Beneath this stone lies Uncle Fred
Whose snoring woke up all the dead
Some ghosts arose
To pinch his nose
According to what Auntie said
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Lesson Learned

Sidewalk spring rain steps
years of tetter-totter angst
Main St. love apocalypse
Relationship on the rocks
Haystack needle search weary
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Pivitol

multiplex parameter panaromas
interdimensional overloads
conglomerate ambient understandings
coherent conscious callings
Awareness 'R' Us

Premium Member Easterly

Jesus, itinerant peacenik,
Wandering socialist hipster, 
Of whom 'tis said, he healed the sick,
Betrayed by a right-wing tipster.
Form: Rhyme

Rip John Doe

John Doe was a prince of a guy
Who forgot to zip up his fly
So out in the snow
John started to grow
When a snow-blower passed him by . . .
Form: Limerick

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