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Short Obituary Poems

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


Mental Health
Depression, you will be the death of me....

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Categories: loneliness, obituary, pain,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Brother Brother
brother brother 
growing up cool
and gone...

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Categories: best friend, brother, death, life, loss, obituary,
Form: Haiku
Conductor's Obituary
The final score ~ He couldn’t face the music anymore...

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Categories: obituary, death, humor,
Form: Epitaph
Changes
David Bowie
I loved your music
why did you have to go?...

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Categories: music, obituary,
Form: Questionku
Premium Member Transference
Sublime countenance
categorical conscience
bliss born priors...

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Categories: obituary, assonance, death, deep, how i feel, jealousy,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Libation
Laminated libidos
Liquidate lovelorn longings
Lunar Lycanthropes...

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Categories: analogy, animal, change, fear, moon, obituary,
Form: Haiku
Bipolar
I'm always manic
I can't stop drinking coffee
I won't get better...

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Categories: obituary,
Form: Haiku
William O'Rourke
A patriarch falls
Clear summer morning fog stings
Family silent
...

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Categories: obituary, death, family, father, i love you, memorial,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Al Jaffee
Al Jaffee
He is missed MADly.
A rascal at heart,
smiles to impart....

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Categories: obituary, crazy, fun, funny, humor, humorous, missing you,
Form: Clerihew
Untitle
summer rose goodbye
magic gone forever more
the queen of our hearts...

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Categories: death, england, nature, obituary,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Country Buffet
In the road to home
turkey vultures picnic on 
fresh opossum delight...

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Categories: death, fate, nature, obituary, summer,
Form: Haiku
Obituary
Column holds no house
Throw as many stones as wish
Nothing made of Glass...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituary, life,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member I Died In Her Arms Tonight
I fell off a boat
An Octopus caught me in her arms
She took me for dinner...

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Categories: death, obituary, sea,
Form: Light Verse
Obituary
Never heard Jesus
referenced as "the late Jesus"
Hmmm, not once, have you?...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituary, history
Form: Haiku
Gene
Sweet Dreams, Mr. Wonka,
thanks for all the merriment;
Gilda's waiting now....

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© Jim Tidd  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituary,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member A Sign of Winter
Houseflies are dying...
A sign from Mother Nature.
She'll bring Winter soon....

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Categories: autumn, insect, nature, november, obituary, seasons, winter,
Form: Haiku
So Long a Sleep
Crescent moon asks
wooden stool why old man 
sleeps beneath a quilt of grass....

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Categories: death, deep, earth, grave, moon, obituary,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Front Page Blues
This is the headline that broke my will.
"Optimist Drowns In Bath Tub Half Full."...

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Categories: obituary,
Form: Couplet
Haiku
Brilliant colored frog
rainforest toxic creature
hides under the log


3-10-18...

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Categories: animal, beautiful, obituary,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Search Goes On
a search
goes on..until
the search appears
as a search
to no one..
a blessed release......

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Categories: appreciation, happiness, obituary,
Form: Blitz
Epigram
Obituary - Window cleaner Bob Wilson

He had more than his fair share of ups and downs...

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Categories: obituary, death, humor,
Form: Epigram
Epigram
Obituary - Paleontologist George Harris 

His death revealed many skeletons in the cupboard...

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Categories: obituary, death, humor,
Form: Epigram
Epigram
 Obituary - Accountant David Jones ( who died penniless)

His whole life counted for nothing...

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Categories: obituary, death, humor,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Forlorn
More than a good poem.
Disappointment dripping.
Tears in an empty Comments box.

Panagiota Romios
4/12/2019...

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Categories: obituary, poetry, sad,
Form: Haiku
One
Obituary read, 'he was all that I had'
Never knowing he was all that I needed
Eventually all of us will be read...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obituary, life,
Form: Acrostic

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