Funeral Words Poems | Examples
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When you attend a funeral
you don’t expect to laugh
But a typo by the printers
was such a glaring gaffe
An N was mistyped in a word
So ‘Mooring is broken’ looked very absurd
It’s to be played when I pass, it’s a favourite song
And I’m sure that Cat Stevens won't get the lyrics wrong!
This happened at a funeral I attended recently, in the order of service there were actually 2 mistakes made by the printers
28/7/19
Marc Antony's funeral oration
Masterpiece of shrewd persuasion
Igniting sundry Romans' fierce desire
To douse 'noble Brutus' life with fire
My grandma told your grandma
Don't you set your head on fire
Come with me to the Casbah
Stay out of the funeral pyre
Talkin' 'bout shotguns, shotguns,
Blasting us away
Jockamo's killing our loved ones
Jockamo nee nah nay.
Memories of guilt fall and spiral down
To fill love's empty soul with its debris
Tormented from sadness I know profound
I've built a funeral pyre my mind will see
Yesterday's desires I've folded in time
To cast on the flames where memories die
Lovers names burn in colored smoke and climb
Dispersing above in an endless sky
These burnt alms donated from my fool's gold
Are now gray cold ash born from flames that weep
Collected from tears and love that turned cold
From time's burning fires of flames, I reap
I've wept from my yesterdays that grew cold
Now lost in ashes as I have grown old
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Kind words are said...
Once you are dead…
And many a tear does fall!
While you still live…
They will not give…
What you need to stand tall!
When your eyes close…
They'll give the rose…
Whose scent others will smell!
What things they'll say…
How they will pray…
To save your soul from hell!
When you did breathe…
They saw no need…
To show you paradise!
Love was withheld…
How your heart bled…
No warmth was in their eyes!
Now you lie still…
There is no thrill…
In the words that they say
Why can't they see…
That you and me…
Might live only TODAY!
Expiration Date
I thought the words so witty, they
Would last more than a day.
Their wisdom touch so many hearts
They’d never fade away.
After posting them I waited for
The answers to appear.
Ignored, unread, they disappeared,
Into the great somewhere.
Some poems live on and some expire
Before the ink has dried.
This is my little funeral dirge
For that small verse that died.
By Joyce 4/22/03