Uplifting funeral poems

FFP Poetry Forums. Since the beginning of time, humans have lived their sometimes grand and sometimes ordinary lives, and have thereafter been laid to rest in countless graves and tombs. Death is something that, in a peculiar way, unites people everywhere, regardless of their social status, race, religious beliefs, or country of residence.

This curious aspect of human nature inspired countless famous poets to contemplate, and write about, man's mortality. Famous poets like Emily Dickinson , Ella Wheeler Wilcox , and Mary Elizabeth Frye all had their own unique ways of viewing death and its effect on the living, views that still impact readers today. Death is nothing at all.

It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Go To Complete Poem. Hello Everyone, Reading the comments here, I just felt that I "belonged. I feel so lost now without Read complete story.

Short poems about death of a loved one

Touched by the poem? Share your story! Do not stand By my grave, and weep.