Poems for Funerals and Life Celebrations

Poems for Funerals and Life Celebrations  provide you with the chance to express your loss. Memorials can be planned with readings from favorite poets and writers, with favorite music, with personal anecdotes told by friends and families, with family photos and other personal touches. Anything is “ok” when you are commemorating a life well-lived. Finding the perfect funeral poem can be challenging. You wish to speak from your heart and express your love and hopefulness at the same time.

Inspiring funeral poems describe how lucky we feel to have had our lived one in our lives, even if it was only for a little while.  Likewise, the beautiful memories we hold on to far outweigh the pain of his or her passing. We’ve collected a number of Poems for Funerals and Memorial Services which are Heartfelt and Loving for use on your celebration of life cards. Likewise, feel free to visit our collection of funeral tribute cards to see how the poems can be used. We also offer Funeral Mass Cards with poetry options as well- with beautiful funeral poems.

Poems for Funerals and Life Celebrations

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by Thich Nhat Hanh

No coming, no going

no after, no before.

I hold you close,

I release you to be free.

I am in you

And you are in me.

~

Warm Summer Sun

By Walt Whitman

Warm summer sun,

    Shine kindly here,

Warm southern wind,

    Blow softly here.

Green sod above,

    Lie light, lie light.

Good night, dear heart,

    Good night, good night

~

Death is Nothing at Al

By Henry Scott Holland

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same as it ever was.

There is absolute and unbroken continuity.

What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you, for an interval,

somewhere very near,

just round the corner.

~

Response for a Burial

By Ruth Burgess

Into the darkness and warmth of the earth
We lay you down
Into the sadness and smiles of our memories
We lay you down
Into the cycle of living and dying and rising again
We lay you down
May you rest in peace, in fulfilment, in loving
May you run straight home in God’s embrace

~

Love Is Immortal

Anonymous

Love is pure energy and
No matter how hard you try,
You can never kill love
Because pure energy can’t die
The feeling of love can fade,
And the body can cease to give,
But the energy created by love
Is immortal and continues
To live.

~

I Am Learning How To Love

by Jamey Wysocki

I am learning how to live
In a new way
Since that day
You were taken away.

I am learning how to live
With the things left unsaid
Knowing I got to say them
With every tear that I shed.

I am learning how to live
By embracing the pain
Knowing that you live on
Through the memories that remain.

I am learning how to live
Knowing I will never again see your face
And I have peace knowing
You’re in a better place.

I am learning how to live
Knowing you’re in God’s care
It gives me the strength to move on
And makes the pain much easier to bear.

~

 

Why?

Author Unknown

Why?
That’s what we ask.
The truth is,
we may never be able
to know for sure why.
But we do know
that there is no single
“should have done” or
“could have done”
or “did” or “didn’t do”
that would have changed that why.
All that love could do was done.

~

Dear Lovely Death

By Langston Hughes

Dear lovely Death
That taketh all things under wing
Never to kill
Only to change
Into some other thing
This suffering flesh,
To make it either more or less,
But not again the same
Dear lovely Death,
Change is thy other name.

~

There is No Light Without a Dawning

By Helen Steiner Rice

No winter without a spring

And beyond the dark horizon

Our hearts will once more sing ….

For those who leave us for a while

Have only gone away

Out of a restless, care worn world

Into a brighter day

~

Our Lives Matter

By M. Maureen Killoran

We come together from the diversity of our grieving,
to gather in the warmth of this community
giving stubborn witness to our belief that
in times of sadness, there is room for laughter.
In times of darkness, there always will be light.
May we hold fast to the conviction
that what we do with our lives matters
and that a caring world is possible after all.

~

An extract from Charlotte’s Web

By E. B. White

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.

I wove my webs for you because I liked you.

After all, what’s a life, anyway?

We’re born, we live a little while, we die.

A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess,

with all this trapping and eating flies.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle.

Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.

~

Heartstrings

Uknown

When those we love go away, they never really leave us;
they are with us now, wherever we are.
Those whom we have cherished, live on forever,
for love wraps itself around the heart.
Although it’s difficult now, someday beyond our tears
and all the world’s wrongs; beyond the clouds
and all that we can see and touch, we shall all understand.