Poems and Readings for a Funeral

Here we have Poems and Readings for a Funeral in remembrance of lost loved ones. Some we have a chance to say Goodbye too and others are gone in a split second but this is our time when we can tell them we love them and that they will be forever in our hearts.These are free for you to use for non commercial purpose.










**

Poems and Readings for a Funeral

They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more;
neither shall the sunlight on them, nor any heat.
for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them,and shall lead them unto living
fountains of water; and God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes.
Revelation; 7:16-17

**

God be in my head
and in my understanding,
God be in my eyes
and in my looking,
God be in my mouth
and in my speaking,
God be in my heart
and in my thinking,
God be at mine end
and at my departing.

**

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
Hafiz

**

Poems and Readings for a Funeral

Sunlight streams through window pane
onto a spot on the floor...
then I remember,it's where you used to stand,
when you came through that door.

Our feet walk down a hall of carpet
and muted echoes sound....
then I remember,
It's where you would always jump around

A voice is heard along the road,
and up beyond the hill
then I remember it can't be yours....
your golden voice is still.

But I'll take that vacant spot of floor
and empty muted hall
and lay them with the absent voice
and unused books along the wall

I'll wrap these treasured memorials
in a blanket of my love
and keep them for my best friend
until we meet above.

**

Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature-
but a thinking reed. It does not take the universe
in arms to crush him; a vapour, a drop of water,
is enough to kill him. But though the universe could
crush him, man would still be nobler than his destroyer,
because he knows that he is dying, that the universe has an
advantage of him; the universe knows nothing of this.
Blaise Pascal

**

Poems and Readings for a Funeral
It's impossible to miss this one out

**

Funeral Blues- Made popular by the movie,
"Four Weddings and a Funeral"

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message
He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever:
I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
W.H. Auden

**

Go back to homepage from Poems and Readings for a Funeral