Best Poems for Funerals

A collection of funeral poems that can play a very meaningful role in a memorial or funeral service. Use funeral poems are noted within funeral programs or can be read aloud at the funeral memorial service. The best poems for funerals are those that express your emotions when words cannot. Poems with themes of missing you, remembering special moments, thoughts of your loved one, resting in peace and being reuntied may all be a part of such funeral poems. Here are some of our favorite poems suitable for any loved one.

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    If You Knew Where I Am Standing

    If you knew where I am standing
    If you could see the sights I see
    If you could hear the angels singing
    the songs they sing eterenally
    If you knew the "One" I'm holding
    Could see the smile He smiles at me
    If you knew where I am resting
    You would not cry for me

    I'm resting in the precious arms of Jesus
    No other place would I rather be
    So if you shed a tear
    Please don't shed it for me
    If you knew where I am easting
    You would not cry for me

    "I know you're confused
    about my leaving you so soon,
    but I'll be with you again
    maybe morning, night or noon
    So I'll save a place for you
    Right beside the crystal sea
    If you kew where my mansion's standing
    You would not cry for me"

    Written by Steven W. Perry c.1986
    (reprinted by permission)

     

    Miss Me But Let Me Go

    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 no too long,
    and not with your had bowed low,
    remember the love that we once shared.
    Miss me but let me go.
    For this is a journey we all must take,
    and each must go alone.
    Itʼs all a part of the Masterʼs plan,
    a step on the road to home.
    When you are lonely and sick of heart,
    go to the friends we know.
    Bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.
    Miss me but let me go.
     

    Death Is A Door

    Death is only an old door
    Set in a garden wall;
    On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk
    When the thrushes call.

    Along the linted are green leaves,
    Beyond the light lies still;
    Very willing and weary feet
    Go over that sill.

    There is nothing to trouble any heart;
    Nothing to hurt at all.
    Death is only a quiet door
    In an old wall.
    –Nancy Byrd Turner

     

    The Broken Chain

    I little knew that morning.
    God was going to call your name,
    In life I loved you dearly,
    in death I do the same.
    It broke my heart to loose you,
    you did not go alone,
    for part of me went with you,
    the day God called you home.
    You left me beautiful memories
    your love is still my guide,
    and though we cannot see you,
    you're always at my side.
    Our family chain is broken
    and nothing seems the same,
    but as God calls us one by one,
    the chain will link again.
    –Anonymous
     
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