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Share Your Favorite Poem

Do you have a favorite poem that you used for the funeral of your loved one that you found comforting? Or a poem that your wrote about your loved one. We'd love you to share it with us.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and you'll find some wonderful poems from other visitors.

Enter The Title of Your Poem

What Other Visitors Have Written

Click below to see poems from other visitors to this page...

Nine months later.....  starstarstarstarstar
I thought that we would never fall apart,
But here I am standing with a broken heart.
And why the angels took you far away,
They didn't ask but I wanted ...

Life's Weaving  starstarstarstarstar
Life is but a weaving
between my God and me;
I may not choose the colors,
He knows what they should be.

For he can view the pattern
upon the upper ...

God Saw You  starstarstarstarstar
God saw you getting tired and a
cure was not to be,
So he put his arms around you
and whispered "Come to me".
With tearful eyes we watched you,
and ...

Poem About Loved One Lost  starstarstarstarstar
When I Close My Eyes

When I close my eyes
You are here
Your charisma, your cheer, your tenderness
I feel you here

When I close my eyes
You ...

Poem for Loss of a Loved One: Love goes on  starstarstarstarstar
Love goes on

Death is not the end,
For love goes on
And you will find the evidence
Long after I have gone.
The flowers that we planted
Will blossom ...

Fears  starstarstarstarstar
Colors fade,
friends shed tears.
We have all discovered
our worst of fears.

Here one min,
and gone the next.
No more phone calls
no more texts....

Apart  starstarstarstarstar
Gone to the touch,
but here in my heart.
Never thought I would
have to see us be apart.

There's not a day that passes,
That I wish you were here....

Poem about Missing Loved One  starstarstarstarstar
We Had No Time To Say Goodbye


there is one thing that makes me cry
and life is sometimes so unfair
we had no time to say goodbye
so i just hope ...

Funeral Poem For Grandmother  starstarstarstarstar
My Grandmother passed away December 30,2008, she was 85. I loved her so very much. A piece of myself has died as well. I miss her and want to just hold ...

For An Adventurer Who Died Too Young  starstarstarstarstar
What should one's life be?

Neat and orderly,
or messy and chaotic?

Quiet desperation,
even quieter compromise?
or daring thrills,
creative ...

Little Wing
Poem for The Loss of A Child
  Not rated yet
Fly, fly little wing

Fly beyond imagining

The softest cloud, the whitest dove

Upon the wind of heaven's love

Past the planets and the stars
...

I will be no more  Not rated yet
When the leaves curl and fall from the trees
My life shall be no more
The wind will blow
Breaking the winter’s silence
But I will be no more

Gone ...

Our Butterfly
(for my mother, with love)
  Not rated yet
Fly away our butterfly
On silver wings way up high
Sail upon the gentle breeze
Lifting you up above the old oak tree.

Fly away our butterfly
To ...

losing you is like losing myself  Not rated yet
losing you is like losing myself
cold dull and dark i know
you don't want me to worry but
its hard when i cant see and talk to you.
until we meet ...

Picture Me by Phyllis Franklin   Not rated yet
Picture Me,as you say your last goodbye
Picture Me,as with the Angels I did fly.
Picture Me,In Heaven They're saying Here She(He) come's
Picture Me,...

Funeral Poem for My Mother  Not rated yet
My Mother

In infancy's unconscious day,
I weak and helpless long did lay,
Who o'er my form did watch and pray,
My Mother.

Who nourished me with ...

As Once Was Said  Not rated yet
You both took chances,
It was close a few too many times.
You thought it would never happen,
Not to you, especially not at one time.

Your jobs ...

Nothing to say  Not rated yet
There's nothing to say now that I'm gone.
I'm quiet now, no sound no song.
I'm in the wind, as it blows through your hair.
I'm the sun on your face,...

Death in the Family  Not rated yet
How are we supposed to act
When there is a death in the family
Do you just stop and break down
Or do you keep on going

Do you stop and call
To your ...

To God's Garden  Not rated yet
An adaptation of God Saw You Getting Tired:

You strove to live alone,
To talk and walk around,
But as the illness was relentless,
You were forced ...

The Rebel  Not rated yet
The crazy ones, the misfits, rebels,
troublemakers,
The round peg in the square hole,
The ones who see things differently.

Their not fond of ...

Poem for mom  Not rated yet
This is the poem we put in my mother's program for her memorial service.

The Cost by Dorothy Monroe


Death is not too high a price to pay
for having ...

The poem, Closing The Circle, by Wendell Berry  Not rated yet
Within the circle of our lives
we dance the circle of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon
...

Funeral Poem for Mother  Not rated yet
We ended my mother's funeral with the following benediction:

Out of her Mother she came,
- born as we all are born.
And she returns to the Mother
...

Johnny Cash  Not rated yet
Here is a video of the tribute for Johnny Cash that was played at his funeral. Johnny's family provided much of the footage. I love this!




Note ...

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