Let it Be
February 4, 2010 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
Let it be,
that I may someday touch the stars.
When all time for me has expired,
and the soul begins to part.
Guide me through the heavens,
where life one day began.
A perfect creation,
molded right out of
our Fathers loving hands.
by Robert M. Hensel
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Goodbye Michael
July 26, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
Goodbye Michael
A star has been plucked from the sky.
The sky is now dimmer.
It happened on June 25th.
A day, we will always remember.
Never again to see Michael’s smile light up the skies.
Never again to see him moonwalk across the stage as his fans cries.
Never again to hear him sing Billie Jean.
To the roaring sound of his [...]
For Farrah (Fawcett)
July 26, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
For Farrah (Fawcett)
A great beauty has passed from this life.
Of good times and sometimes toil and strife.
Some will say that she went to a better place.
Look at the blue sky or a white cloud, you will still see her face.
Movements like those of a gazelle in flight.
Hair that shone like gold on a moonlit night.
Eyes [...]
My Saddest Day
April 21, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
It all started when in at five past midnight
Now I am lying stiff and cold
Deep in troubled dreamless sleep.
Cotton wool stuffed in my nostrils,
I cannot breathe.
A rag tightening my jaws together,
I cannot protest.
My feet bound together,
Surely there is no escape this time round.
Granny chose they dress me up in my favourite suit,
But this time there [...]
Tales from the Crypt
April 14, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems · Comment
Once upon a weary night
Whence old moon pondered
Burning away her silver light
In days of yore she hath decorated
Perched amongst the wandering craven
Weaved tales of tales begotten
“Look on thy lands so tender
They speaketh unto minds moved
Of streaming springs and bitter kings
That hath paved the path of yore
To man his own vengeance and pride
That bloometh redder still [...]
By the River
(For Eric) You said that dad always liked to take you fishing. You had the patience to sit and wait and watch. Crowds of words didn’t chatter in your head and the squawk of crows was enough to settle your need for language. Your landscape was rural—as factual as a barbed hook. Your talent was observation and from the fishing camp in upward look [...]The Burial of Carol Joy Beglau
by: Walter Wykes (1969- ) It seems fitting that the men you knew in life perform this task These are no strangers struggling with the rocky earth no hired men with power tools It is your sons and grandsons your daughters’ husbands who make a place for you with a shovel and their hands originally posted at Black Cat PoemsGrave of the Dead
February 15, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems · 2 Comments
By Kalyani Rajalingham
Like a rose in the mire, bereft of courage to spare,
Let men bemoan their inhumanly ways,
Let them be victims of their proper malice,
For gold has the power to crush mighty pillars,
And in the hands of greed’s bloody ways,
Lets grass grow over graves of follies past,
To entomb the privilege of unyielding remorse,
Why, the world’s [...]
Daring Time
January 5, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
You granted me childhood
Allowed me to err
You showed me life
Revealing the secrets
You read my soul
Unwarranted love
*******
You took a path
I could not follow
A right reclaimed
and granted
a thousandfold
*******
Time, re-created,
Is now a gate onto the future
And beyond that gate
Your future has now begun
by Els van den Eynde
Ama Dablam – Mother’s Necklace
January 5, 2009 · Filed Under Death Poems, Funeral Poems, In Loving Memory Poems, Poems of Bereavement · Comment
Mother’s necklace
Evening star
On canyon rim
Orion’s image
In Nepal land
A mountain’s love
Were you, my child
Motionless trees
Stood the sky
On moonlit nights
For you, my child
Horizon your prayer
Waterfall your music
The splendor cathedral
Your life, my child
Ama Dablam, a necklace offered
To me, your flesh and blood
When you said, a day resplendent
Fatality broke your song
- by Els van den Eynde
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