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Beautiful Funeral Poems to Help Farewell a Loved I

The loss of a loved one is a challenging and emotional time for those who are left behind. And when it comes to honouring someone who has passed, it can be hard to detect the right words to say.  Funeral poems can assist y’all limited your feelings while celebrating the retentiveness of a loved 1.

Examples of Funeral Poems and Readings

To aid you in this difficult time, we’ve compiled a list of poems that can either be read at the funeral, or included in a card or social club of service. They include:

• Religious funeral poems
• Mourning poems
• Happy funeral poems
• Memories funeral poems
• Short funeral poems
• Poems for Nan and Grandpa
• Poems for Dad
• Poems for Mothers

Religious Funeral Poems

Celebrate the life of a loved one with a religious funeral poem that honours their special human relationship with God.

God Looked Around His Garden

Past
Melissa Shreve

God looked effectually his garden
And found an empty place
He so looked down upon the world
And saw your tired face
He put his artillery around you
And lifted you to rest.
God’s garden must be beautiful,
He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering
He knew you were in hurting
He knew that you would never
Go well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough
And the hills were difficult to climb.
So he closed your weary eyelids
And said, “Peace be thine”.
It broke our hearts to lose you
But you lot didn’t become solitary.
For part of us went with you
The mean solar day God chosen you abode.

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God Saw Yous Getting Tired

By
Frances and Kathleen Coelho

God saw you getting tired
And a cure was non to be
So he put his arms effectually you
And whispered,
“Come to Me”
With bawling optics we watched you
And saw you laissez passer away
And although we dearest you lot dearly
We could not make you stay.
A Golden heart stopped beating
Hard working easily at remainder.
God broke our hearts to prove to us
He only takes the best.

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Footprints in the Sand

Anonymous

One nighttime I dreamed I was walking
Along the beach with the Lord,
Many scenes from my life flashed beyond the heaven.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes in that location were two sets of footprints.
Other times there was only one.
This bothered me considering I noticed
During the low periods of my life when I was
Suffering from anguish, sorrow or defeat,
I could run into but ane set of footprints.
So I said to the Lord, You promised me,
Lord, that if I followed you,
You would walk with me always.
Only I noticed during the most trying periods
Of my life there has only been
One set of prints in the sand.
Why, when I needed you most,
Have y’all non been at that place for me?
The Lord replied,
The times when you have seen only one set of footprints
Information technology was then that I carried you lot.

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The Weaver

By
Grant Colfax Tullar

“My life is but a weaving
Between my God and me.
I cannot choose the colors
He weaveth steadily.

Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow;
And I in foolish pride
Forget He sees the upper
And I the underside.

Not ’til the loom is silent
And the shuttles finish to fly
Will God unroll the canvas
And reveal the reason why.

The dark threads are every bit needful
In the weaver’s skillful paw
As the threads of aureate and silver
In the pattern He has planned

He knows, He loves, He cares;
Nothing this truth can dim.
He gives the very best to those
Who leave the choice to Him.”

Mourning Poems

A decease that leaves an bear upon reflects a life well-lived. Here are some mourning poems that can be read at a funeral to help you lot express the hurting you feel at a loved one’s passing.

Funeral Dejection

Past
W. H. Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with deadened drum
Bring out the coffin, permit the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Expressionless’.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Permit the traffic policemen article of clothing blackness cotton wool gloves.
He was my Northward, my Southward, my Eastward and West,
My working week and my Sunday residual,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that beloved would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted at present; put out every i,
Pack upward the moon and dismantle the sunday,
Pour away the bounding main and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to whatsoever good.

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Until Nosotros Run across Over again (ane)

By
Zohaad Irfan

Those special memories of you
Will always bring a smile
If only i could have you dorsum
Merely for a while
Then nosotros could sit down and talk again
Just similar nosotros used to do
You always meant so very much
And always will exercise too
The fact that you’re no longer here
Will always cause me pain
Only you’re forever in my heart
Until nosotros meet again

—

Until Nosotros Meet Once again (2)

Anonymous

Even in the darkest days
Since we’ve been autonomously,
Memories of the times nosotros shared
Aid to warm my center.

Every twenty-four hours I miss the grin
That no 1 can replace,
Merely still it brings me comfort
in the sadness that I confront.

Life is full of mysteries
That no i tin can explain.
But I know some day, somewhere
We will meet over again.

Until we do, I’ll find the strength
To live through each new day,
Grateful for the happy years
Before you went away.

—

In Retention

Anonymous

It broke our hearts to lose you,
but you never went solitary,
for a function of u.s.a. went with you,
the mean solar day god took you lot home.
A 1000000 times nosotros missed you,
A meg times we cried,
If love could have saved you lot,
you never would have died.
To the grave you travel,
Our flowers placed with care,
No-one knows the heartache,
equally we plow to exit you there.
If tears could build a stairway,
and memories could make a lane,
we would walk right up to heaven,
and bring you home again.

Happy funeral poems

Many people want their funeral to celebrate their life rather than mourn their death.

With a great accent on healing, happy funeral poems tin can help y’all remember the expert times and encourage a more than positive approach to the death of a loved i.

Weep Not For Me

Past
Constance Jenkins

Weep not for me though I have gone
Into that gentle nighttime
Grieve if you will, only not for long
Upon my soul’s sweetness flight
I am at peace, my soul’s at rest
There is no need for tears
For with your dear I was and then blessed
For all those many years
There is no pain, I suffer not
The fright is now all gone
Put at present these things out of your thoughts
In your memory I alive on
Remember not my fight for breath
Remember not the strife
Delight do not dwell upon my death
Just gloat my life

—

Exercise Not Stand up At My Grave And Weep

By
Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morn hush,
I am the swift, uplifting blitz
Of tranquility birds in circling flying.
I am the soft starlight at night.
Practice not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I practice not sleep.
(Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I did non die!)

—

My Journeying’s Just Begun

By
Ellen Brenneman

Don’t call back of me as gone away
My journey’south merely begun
Life holds then many facets
This world is only one
Just think of me as resting
From the sorrows and the tears
In a place of warmth and comfort
Where in that location are no days and years
Think of how I must exist wishing
That you could know today
How naught but your sadness
Tin can actually become away
And think of me equally living
In the hearts of those I touched
For zip loved is ever lost
And I know I was loved and so much

—

I’g Gratis

By
One thousand. Fair-Salters

Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m gratis,
I’grand following the path God laid for me.
I took his paw when I heard his call,
I turned my dorsum and left it all.
I could non stay another solar day,
To laugh, to love, to piece of work, to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that fashion,
I’ve found that peace at the close of the twenty-four hour period.
If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a osculation,
Ah yes, these things I also will miss.
Exist not burdened with times of sorrow,
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My Life’s been total, I savoured much,
Good friends, adept times, a loved 1’due south bear upon,
Maybe my time seemed all as well brief,
Don’t lengthen it at present with undue grief.
Lift up your heart and share with me,
God wanted me now, He prepare me free.

Memories Funeral Poems

‘Memories’ funeral poems help you to celebrate the retentiveness of a loved one and think the good times you had together in life.

Remember Me

By
Anthony Dowson

Speak of me as you have always washed.
Recollect the good times, laughter, and fun.

Share the happy memories we’ve made.
Do not let them wither or fade.

I’ll exist with you in the summer’s sun
And when the winter’s arctic has come.

I’ll exist the phonation that whispers in the breeze.
I’m peaceful now, put your mind at ease.

I’ve rested my eyes and gone to sleep,
But memories nosotros’ve shared are yours to keep.

Sometimes our final days may be a test,
But retrieve me when I was at my best.

Although things may not be the same,
Don’t be agape to employ my proper noun.

Allow your sorrow last for but a while.
Condolement each other and try to grinning.

I’ve lived a life filled with joy and fun.
Live on now, brand me proud of what yous’ll become.

—

Afterglow

by
Helen Lowrie Marshall

“I’d similar the memory of me
to be a happy 1.
I’d like to leave an afterglow
of smiles when life is done.
I’d similar to get out an repeat
whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
and bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
to dry out before the sun
of happy memories
that I leave when life is done.”

Curt funeral poems

These curt funeral poems are best used as a heartfelt addition to cards, emails and lodge of service pamphlets.

If I Should Go

By
Joyce Grenfell

If I should become before the rest of yous
Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone
Nor when I’m gone speak in a Sunday voice
But exist the usual selves that I have known
Cry if you lot must
Parting is hell
But life goes on,
So sing as well.

—

Epitaph on a Friend

Past
Robert Burns

An honest homo here lies at rest,
The friend of man, the friend of truth;
The friend of age, and guide of youth:
Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,
Few heads with cognition and so inform’d:
If in that location’s some other globe, he lives in elation;
If there is none, he made the best of this.

—

Love Lives On

Past
Mary Alice Ramish

Those we love remain with us
for dearest itself lives on,
and cherished memories never fade
because a loved one’s gone.
Those nosotros dearest can never be
more than a thought autonomously,
far every bit long equally there is retentiveness,
they’ll live on in the centre.

—

Dearest Shines Through

Anonymous

Like a shadow in the moonlight
Like the whisper of the seas
Similar the echoes of a melody
Just beyond our reach
In the shadow of our sorrow
Past the whisper of farewell
Love shines through eternity
A heartbeat from our heart

—

If I Should Go Tomorrow

Bearding

If I should go tomorrow
It would never be goodbye,
For I have left my middle with you,
So don’t you e’er cry.
The love that’due south deep within me,
Shall reach you from the stars,
You’ll feel information technology from the heavens,
And information technology volition heal the scars.

—

As Long As Hearts Remember

Anonymous

As long as hearts remember
As long as hearts nevertheless care
We do non part with those we honey
They’re with us everywhere

Funeral poems for Nan or Grandpa

As such a consistent influence in their lives, grandchildren may find information technology especially hard to accept the loss of a grandparent. A funeral poem for nan or grandpa tin can aid grandchildren express their feelings when they don’t know what to say.

These funeral poems can be modified to say goodbye to a grandmother or a grandfather.

A Verse form For Grandma

By
Dick Underwood

Grandma, you lot were only a daughter,
So many years ago.
You had your loves and had your dreams,
You lot watched us come and go.
You lot watched united states of america make the aforementioned mistakes,
That yous had made before,
Just that just made you agree us tight,
And love us all the more.
We haven’t always thought about
The things that you take seen.
To us you lot’ve simply been ‘Grandma’,
No idea of who yous’ve been.
Only we remember now in love,
Your life from starting time to end,
And we’re merely glad we knew you,
Every bit Grandma, and every bit Friend.

—

My Grandmother

By
Victoria Fifty. Payne

In my Rose Garden of memories
I come across yous standing there
An affections in disguise
Who taught me how to intendance
I long to hear your vocalization
for real not in my dreams
I am missing you so much these days
how empty my globe seems
People say time heals all wounds
that someday the pain volition subside
Only Grandma I can tell you
I think they must accept lied
The emptiness I am feeling now
is strong and I am weak
These days go by without you
then dreary and then dour
In my Rose Garden of memories
I know you’ll ever be
for though you’re gone
from this mortal world
In my middle you lot’ll always exist

—

Bye, Grandfather

By
Sarah Harrison

Heaven has received another angel,
The night sky another star.
Your life has become a loving retentivity.
I know you will never be far.

I know you are watching over me
As my life goes on.
I volition treasure the memories I have of you.
I tin’t believe you’re gone.

You were a loving, caring gramps.
Y’all were there for me a lot.
You lot will always agree a identify in my heart,
A loving, treasured spot.

You were really i in a million,
A cut above the rest.
All who knew you would hold.
You lot merely were the all-time.

So, Granddad, I will say adieu.
I love and miss yous with all my eye,
But as long every bit I have my loving memories,
We volition never exist likewise far apart.

Funeral Poems for Dad

When it seems incommunicable to express the pain of losing a parent, these funeral poems for dad are a touching and heartfelt celebration of the life of your male parent.

These poems tin can help you express gratitude for the positive influence your dad has had on your life

Memories of Dad

Anonymous

I will have this special moment
To turn my thoughts to Dad
Thank him for the abode he gave
For all the things we had.
Nosotros think about the fleeting years
Too speedily, gone for good
It seems like only yesterday
I’d go back if I could.
A fourth dimension when Dad was always there,
No matter what the weather.
Always strong when things went wrong
He held our lives together.
He strived so hard from day to 24-hour interval
And never once complained.
With steady easily, he worked so hard
And kept the family name.
He taught united states of america that difficult work pays off,
You reap just what you sow.
He said that if you tend your crops,
Your field will overflow.
My life has been bountiful
He taught me how to requite
In his firm and steadfast way
He taught me how to live.
Dad dwells among the angels now
He left us much also soon
He glides across a gilded field
Above the harvest moon.
I see him in the summer rain,
He rides upon the wind
And when my path is beaten down
He picks me up again.

—

What Makes a Dad

Anonymous

God took the strength of a mountain & the majesty of a tree.
The warmth of a summertime sun, the calm of a repose sea.
The generous soul of nature & the comforting arm of night.
The wisdom of the ages and the power of the eagle’southward flight,
The joy of a morning in spring & the religion of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity & the depth of a family need,
And then God combined these qualities,
When in that location was nix more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
And then, He chosen it … ‘DAD!’

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Life Lessons

by
Joanna Fuchs

You may have thought I didn’t see,
Or that I hadn’t heard,
Life lessons that you lot taught to me,
But I got every word.
Perhaps you thought I missed information technology all,
And that we’d grow apart,
Just Dad, I picked upward everything,
Information technology’s written on my eye.
Without y’all, Dad, I wouldn’t be
The (woman)(human) I am today;
You lot built a potent foundation
No one can have away.
I’ve grown upward with your values,
And I’m very glad I did;
So hither’s to you, dear father,
From your forever grateful child

Funeral poems for mothers

It tin can be hard to accept the loss of your mum. As such a abiding and reliable source of support in your life, expressing your pain at her funeral tin can be difficult.

These funeral poems for mothers offer a beautiful final tribute to the woman who raised yous.

My Female parent Kept a Garden

Bearding

My Mother kept a garden.
A garden of the heart;
She planted all the practiced things,
That gave my life its’ start.

She turned me to the sunshine,
And encouraged me to dream:
Fostering and nurturing
The seeds of cocky-esteem.

And when the winds and rains came,
She protected me enough;
But not too much, she knew I’d demand
To stand up strong and tough.

Her abiding good example,
E’er taught me right from wrong;
Markers for my pathway
To last my whole life long.

I am my Mother’south garden,
I am her legacy.
And I hope today she feels the beloved,
Reflected back from me.

—

Mother’south Hands

By
Marian Jones

Hands that rocked the cradle
From the moment of my nascency,
Their tender touch remembered
By those still here on Earth.
Soft equally silk those hands
That taught me how to pray,
Banishing childhood fears;
They soothed each one away.
When I grew much older
And troubles came my way,
Those easily caressing mine
Did more than words could say.
Mother’s hands were gentle,
They’re missed so very much,
I’d requite the globe to feel over again
Their warm and tender touch.
Those hands were total of comfort
Now they prevarication at residuum,
But memories hold them shut
To the ones they served the best.

Celebrating a Life

Celebrating the life of a loved ane is an important phase of the grieving procedure.

During a funeral, information technology’s important that you be able to express your feelings while honouring the memory of those who have passed. Funeral poems can help bring friends and families together in times of loss, both to farewell a loved 1 and begin the process of healing.