Funeral poems are a great way to express your love and appreciation for someone who has recently passed. Though these poems may be sad, their purpose is to lift the hearts of those affected by this loss and remind them of the beauty in life and the memories left behind when it is time to leave this earth. Please be sure to credit the author when using these poems on a website or at a funeral service.

Bridge to a Future

By Robert Langley Roads that wind round canyon walls Like corridors round learning halls Points of light there on the ground Will draw you with familiar sounds Gather there the tools you need Advice is there for you to heed Spread the word as given you And do the work you’re supposed to do Travel where your heart does tell Let your knowledge serve you well Things will flow as to their course You need not fear, or push, or force All things come as time dictates Though time has come for what you wait The door is open once again A bridge for futures now and then

Life is Beautiful

By Healther Stephens You can’t quit until you try You can’t live until you die You can’t learn to tell the truth Until you learn to lie You can’t breathe until you choke You gotta laugh when you’re the joke There’s nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive Just open your eyes Just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful. Will you swear on your life, That no one will cry at my funeral? I know some things that you don’t I’ve done things that you won’t There’s nothing like a trailer park to find your way back home I was waiting for my hearse What came next was so much worse It took a funeral to make me feel alive Just open your eyes Just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful. Will you swear on your life, That no one will cry at my funeral? Just open your eyes Just open your eyes And see that life is beautiful. Will you swear on your life, That no one will cry at my funeral?

The Funeral Bell

By Francis Duggan The funeral bell is ringing a reminder of our mortality Farewelling a deceased soul one day ’twill ring for me Ringing in the stillness of this cool Autumn day Across the rural city in the morning damp and gray. The funeral bell is pealing for one a last farewell And few sounds sadder than the slow peals of the loud funeral bell Above the streets and houses it echoes to the sky For one bound for her or his last resting place the cemetery nearby. The peewees in the town park distinctive in their call And the magpie on a wattle pipe on this cool morning in the Fall And for one who will not breathe again the eulogy is read And the funeral bell is tolling in memory of the dead. The funeral bell is ringing for one a last goodbye And on the clock of our mortality the hours just seem to fly Respect to the departed is all that we can pay And for each and everyone of us a final night and day.

The Good Funeral

By Matt Ullman There may be a heaven Sealed in the dark Then there’s no denial About life here on earth But while I wait here anyway I have to love this ’til the day - I want to have the good funeral Death the mirror of life Rock and roll in a big stadium To the tune of paradise If there is a heaven I’ll send a little note Thanking everybody Every good soul For the good funeral Death the mirror of life Darling do this one thing for me Don’t you cry Please just party when I die

Remember

By Christina Rosetti Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. Remember me when no more day by day You tell me of our future that you plann’d: Only remember me; you understand It will be late to counsel then or pray. Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.