Short Funeral Poems
We have put together the below list of short funeral poems. Sometimes a few words are enough to express the deep loss you are experiencing. Sometimes you won’t be able to say more than a few words.
The short poems below can be changed for the funeral of different family members so if you find a poem that resonates with you and how you are feeling it’s best to edit it for your needs.
We have provided pdf and word download links so you can print the poem off to take with you or supply for guests.
If you would like to add a short funeral poem to this page please send it through to us to help support other families, thank you.
my superhero, my dad
My dad and I have special Powers
I bet you didn’t know
And when we are together
Our Super Power grow
I have the gift of flight
To soar and leap and bound
I can hover in the sky
And never touch the ground
Dear Dad
I somehow never told you
Told you what you mean
I really never showed you
Now you’re but a dream
It feels as though it were yesterday
You sang and danced with joy
From a child, you loved me true
You gave me every toy
Happy the Man
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul or rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power,
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Grumpy grandad
Grand-daughter of the Painted Nails,
As if they had been dipped in gore,
I’d like to set you lugging pails
And make you scrub the kitchen floor.
I’m old and crotchety of course,
And on this point my patience fails;
I’d sue my old girl for divorce
If she showed up with painted nails.
All Is Well Death Is Nothing At All
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
Weep Not For Me Poem
Weep not for me though I am gone
Into that gentle night
Grieve if you will, but not for long
Upon my soul’s sweet flight
I am at peace, my soul’s at rest
There is no need for tears.
For with your love I was so blessed
For all those many years.
There is no pain, I suffer not,
The fear now all is gone.
Put now these things out of your thoughts
In your memory I live on.
Remember not my fight for breath
Remember not the strife
Please do not dwell upon my death,
But celebrate my life
Miss Me But Let Me Go Poem
When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom filled room
Why cry for a soul set free?
Miss me a little, but not for long
And not with your head bowed low
Remember the love that once we shared
Miss me, but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It’s all part of the master plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go to the friends we know.
Laugh at all the things we used to do
Miss me, but let me go.
You Can Shed Tears That She is Gone Poem
You can shed tears that she is gone
Or you can smile because she has lived
You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back
Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left
Your heart can be empty because you can’t see her
Or you can be full of the love that you shared
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday
Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday
You can remember her and only that she is gone
Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on
You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back
Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
A Love Like No Other Poem
From the time I was born
I guess you would know
Ten perfect fingers
Ten little toes
When you first put your finger in my tiny hand that’s when I first knew
You were my father no one else would do
As I grow older
and reach for the sky
My dad is still there
to keep that twinkle in my eye
When I need someone to hold me
you never say I’m too big
You pick me up and squeeze me
and whisper, “you’re my little friend”
Most other people don’t understand me
or maybe just not as well
That’s why you’re the one I run to
when I have something to tell
I love you Dad
as you can see
I’m so glad
that you’re a part of me
Warm Summer Sun Poem
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.