The Importance of a Sister
behind all those
must stay that and cry.walks tall and ,
have to leave Tasks left undone at my grave feel he still
, And that I stay another day, To laugh, to love, to work, to play.
Do not stand pall of sadnesswebsites:
aboveI could not sleep.
And through a Information obtained from in heaven far
it all.there, I do not all.but I ……….
place is ready back and left I am not
to guide us never knewHe said my
heard his call, I turned my and weep.his spirit towers
he thought I hand.hand when I
at my grave waking hours, and though he’s gonewas nothing wrongme by the
I took his Do not stand their
told me there name and took for me.
night.omnipresent guidance in his brave face
and called my path God laid soft starlight at powerful sense of
he put on That Jesus came me, for now I’m free, I’m following the
I am the they feel a my goodbyeunderstand
Don’t grieve for in circling flight.the pain
and this is please try to The Final Flight
Of quiet birds
of sight, I know despite very muchstarts without me Stephen O’Brienswift, uplifting rushcomprehend their lossI love him But when tomorrow
I Never Saw Your Wings (Modified)
never die.I am the I think I
passing bytoo.
For love can hush,light,
and time is you’ll miss me shared,
in the morning would wander without ticking
me I know special love we When you wake
understand how friendsthe clock is you think of
And for the gentle autumn rain.I think I
By Vanessa KershawAnd each time knew,I am the
there.Goodbye Grandadyou
and joy we grain.
of saddened solace My happiest ……….as I love For the happiness
sunlight on ripened solitary kindthe wild,me as much
fallI am the their love we’ll find a a bird from
much you love Let your tears snow.
to declarehow to tame
I know how do:diamond glint on
bereaved will gather
You taught me tears for meBut if you I am the of loved eminence; and whereme free.all filled with to cry.blow.shared a life
you who set find your eyes Till then, remember me, you understand-and try not thousand winds that with whom she Grandpa it was should rise and
To My Sister…
of Golden Light…I am a
manforget me",
If the sun to this land
sleep.has lost the
said "Son please never here to see
you acrossthere, I do not
for Terri who the eyes and
I am not hand and bring
I am not and Robert who’ll despair,looked me in
without me and can take your
and weep,Bindi Sue
hand as you When tomorrow starts day when I
at my grave I grieve for
I held your Dale
Waiting for the Do not stand
really, really cared.By Ricky Ringheim
By Jamie Leigh sight,And Weep
how much he
Grandpa, I Love YouWithout Meworld, just beyond your At My Grave justI love ……….When Tomorrow Starts In a timeless Do Not Stand so aware of to tell you presence everywhere.
The Final Flight
stand
Music and lyrics: Conn Bernard . Vicki Brown
that kept us I never got You’ll feel my
But now, further along life’s road I with you.candid pane
your final wishand I’ll be therecall my name…
And I’ll be there and burst the
before you made
Look for me And I’ve heard you you,
blooma kissonce lovedcry:
to be near his energy wont to give you
things that i I’ve watched you
Just wish me
thatI never got
In all these pain:I loved you.
I cannot credit a tugthat soar above
I’ve felt your
me, as you know
cry again,and gave you Among towering trees
So many times me and love the man wont
took your hand in so endlesslyyou each day:
Just look for believebefore an angel
And surf rolls
For I visit whole life throughI hardly can a hugabove the seabeen the same,Every waking moment, and all your
Lose You
Steve is gone,
to give you
Where seagulls cry life has never
sky.
CarswellI never got
and I’ll be there.Since then, I know your
in rainbows, shining in the
by Ivan Donn
By Emilee ReynoldsLook for me
to travel Home…
Look for me
A final journeyingGoodbye
air
come, and I had to part now, we won’t say goodbye;
have for you.
To Tell You lingers in the
My time had Time for us
we will alwaysI Never Got
As wood smoke to me;
again.
and the love
had another ……….my kissvoice called out will hold you, when we meet in our hearts,I though you give to you But a silent My loving arms to replace you you would leave.The rain will I wouldn’t go,come and then
another oneI never thought misthand and prayed It won’t be forever, the day will they’ll never be for so long,there’s cloud or
Miss Me But Let Me Go
You held my to you.you Dad because
You were there In winter when hour,
me, and I’ll be close We’ll always rememberyou
you.When, in our darkest me and love
no matter what.is I miss me, I’ll be with
I’ll remember youJust look for bad times,
All I know Just think of a quiet sky
world is through,through good and
you’re goneof blueare falling through
sunset, when all the us
But now that under sunny skies When winter snows
In the evening for Mom and too,
On sunny days Remember me…the sky.
You being thereIt hurt me
hoursto say goodbye,in rainbows, high up in
us.hurt you
me such happy
had a chance Look for me you always gave I know it That gave to Though we never to leave you, I won’t say goodbye;that warm embrace,By Amanda Dwyerflowersfor you…Time for me
From Me
that caring heart,
Grandpa, I Miss Youand colour of
I will wait
I loved you.that special smile,My love ……….
In the scent for you…
me, as you know We’ll always rememberplace.
the leaves.I will wait
me and love Dad
in a happier skin or swirls
Pablo NerudaJust look for
ON OUR SIDE.
I knew you’d soon be That cools the
died.
new,To be ALWAYS
face;
touch of breeze
not living, if you, beloved, my love, if you have
the world is
can count onraced down my
In the gentle
No, forgive me, if you are sunrise when all
Someone that we
As my tears
find me everywhere
blind.
In the morning and a guide,you everyday.And you will though I am the sky.He’s a guardian grandpa, I will love and I’ll be thereit come even in rainbows, way up in HEAVENLY FATHER,I love you
Weep Not For Me
Look for me must speak: I shall see Look for me
And like OUR that way.
– forget the rest.am mute I to go now, I won’t say goodbye;
them happiness…
I saw you The happy time
victory arrives, even though I Time for me
And to bring my face when you think best
with them. When victory, not my victory, but the great in Rainbows
of himTears streamed down
Remember me as I shall go
Look for me the family proud By Lauren
crygo to jail
Pamela DaviesIs to make
Grandfather, Tearsask – please do not
be dead. When my brothers eternal strife.success
Death Of A But this I
beaten, I can not
Tormented hearts endure To fortune and Poem About The goodbyeWhere blacks are future promisereason Dad aspiresBut ……….time to say my voiceonly joy and For the only hold many fearsThere was no
Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep
voice, there shall be Where once was
praise,so empty and By Unknown
man has no ecstasy of life,And accolade of
As we feel I’ll Be ThereBecause where a
havoc from the loving complimentsof tears
while crocodile!on living.To wreak such
And they merit cried an ocean
see-you in a it, if you die. I shall go
youth’s exuberance,different ways,
Together we have I love you
dare to write does steal on In a million
our dadThank-you granddaddare, I do not
How treacherous death just WONDERFULGrandpa, our friend and
fully flowered.
God’s Garden
I do not
from his tomb.But Fathers are That we’ve lost our until they have
on living.mock us gently and his wife…sad,
rest,are not living, I shall go In death now To his partner
a little bit he will never do not exist, if suddenly you celebratesentimental stuff
are all feeling not stopped,If suddenly you
are cause to He leaves the I know we
but he has Dead WomanThose baubles which race of life,
By Ilona Blakebest,Stevie Smithbloom,In the grueling
Death Of Grandfather, For My Grandpahe did his talks apace.
yesterday a withered every dayMy dearest, sweet, Great-Granddad Tom.them fuller.
Grief, like Guilt, rushes in and The seed of But he’s so busy you’re gone.and defiantly made
state a case,
and aspirations,be…But now I’m sad that cherished there smiles,England, and will not Those golden dreams And as "soft" as he can I knew you.made them colour,Happiness is like loves perpetually bereft.You’ll find he’s sentimentalI’m so happy bloom,never ends,
To leave his else can seeor brother.he helped them and her song
After Glow
nature’s orderWhere no one
you’ll not meet, my new sister he cried.
Grief is explicit Perfidious sleep confounded look inside Dad’s heart,
I’m sorry that and with laughter
for friends,he left,
But if you be another.
he watches us,Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally
this earthly home we call emotion,
There will never pride,Happiness
Too early yet To the thing
There’s no-one like you,
it is his KevF – 21st August 2007my precious son
not subject
around, on Friday afternoons.it looks beautiful,through life’s mortal maze.Unendingly I mourn That Fathers are When I came he make sure Guiding us always My Precious Son
I Know Not Why
the notion,
the room,fall.our days
Robert HerrickWe sometimes get
smile, would light up and there in stay with us, through each of
lightly covers her.is the reason
How your wonderful in summer,They comfort and
The earth that And perhaps that first time, upon your knee.
he was there our griefGive her strewings, but not stir
scrimmage"…Sit for the them all,
to cope with eyes did peep.And "hero or the
see me,he has seen
and help us As her little provider
how proud, he was to he’s seen them,They watch us
asleep
As protector and He told me a new word.go to, well it’s my beliefas fell fast to "HIS IMAGE"her tummy.another step,Where do they Who as soon To live up
Poem of Life
I was in a new bird,
on sand.flesh and blood:
dailya tear, when he said
a new flower,
Walking beside us, on grass or Lately made of
And Father struggles How you wiped
GranddadLoving us always, holding our handsHere she lies, a pretty bud,
our ills…round with Mummy,
Garden For My us, calming our fear
Child That DiedAnd nurses all
of the time, when he came away.
they stay with Epitaph Upon A
up little hurtsHe told me
take our GRANDAD I think that
The Bible, King James VersionWhile Mother binds
in life.for you to
here?
past.pays the bills,you, as you were was this ok go to, when no longer that which is The man who As he remembered Why why why Where do they hath already been; and God requireth be
She is Gone
tears in Daddy’s eyes,
the following day,that way.is to be
For, somehow, Father seems to But there were day and gone
them with us been is now; and that which we should…
lake.where her one to think of That which hath
As often as a walk, by a beautiful We can’t believe you
I’d like you fear before him.praisesTake them for
alive.each day?it, that men should not sing their
Jake,by being here hear us, and watch us taken from it: and God doeth
And we do Josh, and Luke and shown them wrong
Do they still put to it, nor any thing Too little understood,To play with
time have you evening breeze?for ever: nothing can be people
heaven.but how many us, in the cool
gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be
Fathers are wonderful Daddy, that you’d gone to and thrive,Are they around his labor, it is the RiceTo tell my might not live
Legacy of Love
leave?
good of all by Helen Steiner seven,
them say you go to, the people who eat and drink, and enjoy the
Peopleat ten past have we herd
Where do they every man should Fathers are Wonderful
My Nanny rang How many time go to?
life. And also that me.Great Grandad Tomsay goodbye.
Where do they good in his dont die on us all stronger.
for us to Jeanne Willisman to rejoice, and to do
My father, my father,it will make time has come
our dreams.’good in them, but for a be.
is hard but We can’t believe the
up home inside
there is no things that must suffer no longer. I know this goodbyes.They simply set I know that around forever, and i have grandfather. My granddad will had your last ‘I can’t be sure,’ said Grandad, ‘but it seemsto the end.
Sleep, My Sister
i wont be
a good dad, husband, brother uncle and rest as you
sky?from the beginning
come see me,My granddad was bless, now it’s time to
or in the that God maketh daughter,
way or another.Good night God Somewhere down below
out the work
my daughter my
touched in 1 By Sarah Cooper
they die?man can find said to me,
him would be Granddadgo to when
in their heart, so that no My father, my father,went past. Everyone who knew
While I’m still there, I can’t be dead.Where do people set the world
be.to anyone who thoughts, inside your head,
Inside Our Dreamsin his time: also he hath world really can
made me laugh. He liked talking I am the
Henry Van Dykeevery thing beautiful
how beautiful this his face and
cloud, that’s drifting by.who love, time is Eternity.in it. He hath made
made me see,a smile on
I am the But for those to be exercised
my father, my father,
He always had sky,those who rejoice,sons of men I love he,his liquorice-stick-filled pockets.bird, up in the Too short for given to the
If Only You Could Have Stayed
My father, my father,
his head and
I am the those that grieve,
the travail, which God hath by Dakota Ellerton
never came off mirth.
Too long for
I have seen
My Father, My Father
socks and sandals, the hat that
laughter, I am the those that fear,
he laboreth?to keep.
Granddad with his I am the
Too swift for in that wherein
As good enough
image of my rain, refreshing the earth,
that wait,he that worketh
mercy I’ll be judgedbe the vivid
I am the slow for those
What profit hath That in His
There will always star, shining so bright.
Time is too of peace.
net I’m perfectly asleepBy Ferney
I am the For Katrina’s Sun Dial
war, and a time When, in the Lord’s safe landing
angels.sun ,bringing you light,for me
to hate; a time of
humbly prayheaven with the I am the care of you love, and a time I’ll then most sleep well in toes.To take good a time to last castGranddad,frost, that nips your
In Our Minds
them
to speak;
come to my
We love you
I am the
sure to tell keep silence, and a time
And when I
home again.your nose,
And please be to sew; a time to
my dying day:and bring you
snowflake that kisses
so tenderlyrend, and a time
for trout Until heaven,
I am the
As they sing a time to
I may fish right up to
ground.the angels
to cast away;God grant that
we would walk lies in the
run free with keep, and a time
Angler’s Prayermake a lane,
here I’m all around, only my body So go and
to lose; a time to of me
and memories could I am still
Shall never, ever depart
get, and a time that you’re a part build a stairway,tear,you gave usa time to I’m so gladIf tears could my soul’s is here, please don’t shed another Each precious moment embracing;
Sister and Best Friend
seethere.
My body’s gone but hearts
to refrain from as you can
to leave you side,
Deep inside our embrace, and a time
Papaas we turn
I’m by your always be hiddena time to
I love you heartache,
have died, for I’m still here Your face will
together;something to tell
No-one knows the me now I
haveto gather stones
when I have with care,
Don’t cry for time we did
cast away stones, and a time
I run to
Our flowers placed me
glad for the a time to
That’s why you’re the one you travel,
Don’t Cry for
But make us
to dance;not as well
To the grave
Judi Walkernever escape us
mourn, and a time
or maybe just have died.strong!Your memory will to laugh; a time to don’t understand meyou never would together we are lastweep, and a time Most other people have saved you,Angel Moms and a lifetime will a time to kidIf love could Because we are
Broken Chain
And our pain
to build up;and whisper you’re my little
we cried,cope,
usbreak down, and a time
meA million times
find ways to taken you from to heal; a time to
up and squeeze we missed you,
Together we will Although he has kill, and a time
You pick me A million times
belong,proud
a time to I’m too big
took you home.place where we
feel nothing but planted;
you never say the day god
We’ll create a And we should
that which is mewith you,
each other hope,
himto pluck up someone to hold of us went We can give to be with plant, and a time When I need for a part
Her Journey’s Just Begun
day by day.
has chosen you a time to eye
went alone,
can make it For the lord
to die;twinkle in my
but you never Because together we
golden cloudsbe born, and a time
to keep that you,and try again,
Dance around the a time to still there
hearts to lose But we’ll get up
the angelsunder the heaven:
My Papa is It broke our
the way,run free with
to every purpose the sky
rest in peace.and fall along So go and
is a season, and a time and reach for
always grandpa,We may stumble
run free
To everything there olderI love you hand my friend,So go and EverythingAs I grow not to crySo take my Joyce Grenfell
Dear Sister in Heaven
– A Time For else would doit helps me
being gone.well.Book of Ecclesiastes
papa no one us,
pain of them on, So sing as
Dylan ThomasYou were my your watching over
To survive the But Life goes light.
first knewand to know needed each other,
must, Parting is hell,dying of the
hand that’s when I the skyThey knew we
Weep if you Rage, rage against the
in my tiny the angels in alone,
I have known.good night.put your finger angels
on this journey usual selves that gentle into that
When you first now with the They didn’t want us But be the
Do not go Ten little toesbut you are
us together,voice
your fierce tears, I pray.Ten perfect fingers
home againOur children brought in a Sunday
Curse, bless, me now with would know
and bring you
and long.Nor when I’m gone speak sad height,I guess you heavenwalk is hard a stone,And you, my father, there on the I was bornright up to The path we flower nor inscribe light.From the time we would march
Last Journey
need to explain,
Break not a dying of the Paula M. Newman
build a lanethere is no rest of you
Rage, rage against the No Other
and memories could With each other
go before the and be gay,
A Love Like build a staircase
strong,If I should
blaze like meteors been longer.
if love could share is very Her Friends
Blind eyes could it could have
we will meetThe bond we By Herself and
blinding sightand always wish
that day where others pain,
Robert Burns
Grave men, near death, who see with with my father
that dayWe understand each
best of this.good night.
walk I took cant wait for
same tears.none, he made the
gentle into that I’ll remember that
and we all the age, we cry the
If there is Do not go
as a wife,feel complete
But no matter bliss;
on its way,girl and now
our lives wont their lives begun,
If there’s another world, he lives in And learn, too late, they grieved it
first as a how much we’ll miss youtheir babies before
knowledge so inform’d;flight,
my life,words cant describe
Some have lost Few heads with the sun in
walks I’ve taken in took you home
years,his, with virtue warm’d,caught and sang
In all the the day god
grow over the Few hearts like
Wild men who wonderful life.with you
Who we watched
youth:light.
both for my of us went
or sons,age, and guide of dying of the
to thank them as a part
lost older daughters The friend of
Rage, rage against the by his wife,
went aloneSome of us
truth,
Funeral Poems for Grandfather
bay,
as we walked
although you never mother.man, the friend of in a green Not long enough youtitle of grieving The friend of might have danced am.hearts to leave We share the rest,Their frail deeds the person I It broke our a brighter tomorrow,here lies at by, crying how brightme to be Our GrandadGiven hope for An honest man Good men, the last wave who has taught in your heart.other,Friendgood night.this man,me I’m right here encouragement to each Epitaph on a gentle into that to walk with you think of We have given WH AudenDo not go Not long enough For every time our sorrow,
to any good.
Funeral Poems for Grandfather
lightening they
hill.don’t think we’re far apart,
our tears and can ever come
had forked no after every tough starts without me
We have shared For nothing now Because their words
joke,So when tomorrow Angel Moms
up the wood.right,
after every bad for the past.Geoffrey Davies
ocean and sweep know dark is
him still,here there’s no longing
circle of flowers, towards the road.Pour away the at their end
to laugh with day’s the same away from the
the sun;Though wise men
Not long enough And since each the sloping driveway,
moon and dismantle light.
every rough tide.will always last
him walking down Pack up the
dying of the by mine after
tomorrow but today am dead, I will see one;
Rage, rage against the as he was I promise no
long after I not wanted now, put out every day;
his side,it starts anew.because, one day,
The stars are at close of
to stand by
past but here home from work forever: ‘I was wrong’burn and rave
Not long enough on earth is on my way love would last
Old age should pride.
Today your life pass the cemetery
I thought that good night,always brimming with
all I’ve promised youlook as I
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song,gentle into that
and remember his is eternity And
And I usually rest,Do not go
eyesHe said This
to myself."and my Sunday
Good Nightto engage his
throne.hug the knowledge My working week
Gentle Into That Not long enough
his great golden no one but West,
Do Not Go this amazing person, this loving man.
at me from I will tell
North, my South, my East and Christina Rossettihand,
down and smiled of Phil.
He was my be sad.to hold his
As God looked for the glory
cotton gloves.should remember and Not long enough
at homewhat I do
policemen wear black Than that you
soon.felt so much
to succeed in Let the traffic
and smilepath ended too
walked through Heaven’s gate and "I am going
public doves,you should forget
I realized the But when I
papers, saying to myself,
necks of the
Better by far
walk that afternoon,with sorrow.study sorting my round the white
once I had,Moments before our heart was filled
floor in my Put crépe bows the thoughts that
by Kelly Horn
I did my
sit on the He is Dead,A vestige of
Moments Beforeyou and when Yet I can
sky the message leave
be with me.I thought of
me so?Scribbling on the darkness and corruption
You will always tomorrow
slightly mad people. Who would think moaning overhead
For if the whatthings that I’d miss come there are many
Let aeroplanes circle And afterwards remember, do not grieve:that no matter thought of worldly I wonder if
come.for a whileFor I know
And when I of Phil
coffin, let the mourners should forget me be beside me
me.To The Glory Bring out the
Yet if you Your spirit will
the place of Emily Dickinson
drumthen or pray.
I ammemories would take live in vain.
and with muffled late to counsel No matter where
For emptiness and I shall not Silence the pianos
It will be for your country.
beagain,
a juicy bone.Only remember me; you understand
of your courage this could never
Unto his nest from barking with that you planned:
I will think fully realize that
fainting robin
Prevent the dog of our future magnificence
But then I Or help one
telephone,You tell me of mountains, their majesty and
you smile.pain,
clocks, cut off the by day
When I think and maybe see the aching, Or cool one
Stop all the no more day family.
and kiss you ease one life
Funeral BluesRemember me when love for your
I’d say goodbye If I can
Mary Lee Hall
yet turning stay.
of your endless
while
live in vain:
you.turn to go
I will think
just a little from breaking, I shall not
may therein comfort Nor I half
sea
have stayed for
stop one heart
and I perchance the hand,
out to the If I could
If I can mine
hold me by
When I look we had.Not In Vain
unfinished tasks of go no more
cannot grow strong.all the fun free.
Complete these dear When you can Without life’s challenges I
we shared and now, He set me thine.
land;cannot bloomall the love
with me, God wanted me other hearts than
into the silent Without rain flowers I thought of
heart and share something to comfort Gone far away
trees cannot growand the badLift up your
to do
away,
That without rain
the good ones grief.and trembling hand
I am gone
me so well’all the yesterdays now with undue
nerving thy heart Remember me when
what you taught I thought of brief, Don’t lengthen it
life and smile,Remember
And will remember was leaving you.seemed all too
turn again to Steve ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin.
wisdomimpossible that I Perhaps my time
For my sake journeying ofyour words of
It seems almost My Life’s been full, I savoured much, Good friends, good times, a loved one’ touch.
silent dust.a joyous final I will hear
dotomorrow.vigil by the call
window sill
much yet to
the sunshine of who keep long
voices heard and patter against my for and so
sorrow, I wish you others sore undone,to make our the rain pitter
much to live
with times of be not like we join
When I hear I had so Be not burdened
while,and though bereaved your love.to die.
I will miss.
you here a beliefs,the warmth of it wasn’t my time A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss, Ah, yes, these things too
die and leave we share profound
I will feel
life I’d always thought with remembered joy.
If I should with whom
window awakens meFor all my
void, Then fill it LifeA loving larrikin
shining through my eye
has left a Turn Again To stir our souls.
When the sun fell from my If my parting Mary Frye
passion deep to life.away a tear
day.die!commonsense andsimple things in
turned to walk end of the there, I did not to us with To appreciate the
But as I peace at the I am not talks
I will know I dearly love.way, I’ve found that
pain.freelyit is you
When I see Saying goodbye to When life separates
by Tram-Tiara T. Von Reichenbachothers and gave earth’s beauty or
who leaves the the love ofwell, laughed often and This giant pine, magnificent and old.
fast".– and said,Where it had
As if to and the cooling Within its fold
A giant pine, magnificent and oldHow can he
father to the father to the
wild.‘The child is
The Child Is to replace you no matter what.
You being therethat special smile,all along,you did,
If we have best?you
The value of And accept our support us …..
us?Did we remember
Backfather.
like my Father,I do see me is the
He risked his He joined the
He wrote what
Education
on his fellow He was a
And we’re just glad who you’ve been.The things that
us tight,mistakes,your dreams,
a girl/boy,
life.strife.In your memory
The fear now so blessed.peace, my soul’s at rest
Grieve if you Grandfatherwritten for Billy
as I have will say goodbyeAll that knew
You were really You will always You were a
I will treasure I know you
become a loving So heaven has
to have had colostomy bag. He told me then eventually his
a hospice as last 4 weeks out he had Nan but over
to cancer. Growing up I • 2427 Viewsto the reception
Now i can’t except this Speak kindly of I’ll be watching
You will have It’s always yours Enriched by those
At the station journeyTo build a
really changedWho took an brief reminder
time todayon my waybelieve
The pain and its destination
station
loss of a his first wife
an Love Lives heart.
apart,
all eternity, just as God
And though your for, you had so and you had An angel came and each time
much you care there are so and ponder how
never be forgotten. It is often poem is a
is ever losther as living
how nothing but years.
in a place only one.away
one part of comfort when mourning calls us one
Our family chain still our guide,
The day God You did not in death we
that morningwhen you are
after the passing a loved one
“Broken Chain” is a funeral friend,
And those random nod and concur.
I was truly sharp pain.
we could all and how could
my face,The moment I
that special bond. It would be
lucky enough to in our minds,
We promise to
blessed.much more than Our hearts are why did you
Our questions pointing,Sorrow has arrived,your sister’s memory at
ends with a This funeral poem
is true…Gone but not
your face.this pain I
Surrounded by family,reach.
silence brings thoughts
quickly
By Catherine Lamberton
feel after the
~
But after night
So… sleep on my open their eyes.But I have
like a hole
head
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I hate that
By T. Hutchinsonat peace, free from suffering poem offers comfort sleep,
Now the time
just as a us all in
to find,You gave us
legacy we have all are for
If your sister turn your back
and let it
You can remember yesterdaythe love you
Your heart can pray that she’ll come back
or you can her loss.
the incredible and poem is a
everlasting peace,And when the
we know.but never meant
Different paths along A resting place
for a sister.place on the
We should remind cry?
spring,They break my
know; it lies too smiling, so am I.
weeping, so am I;By Morris Rosenfeld
uses powerful imagery ~
the sunsunny days.
whispering softly down glow
memory of mewould be perfect
that our sister
was still here.” This next poem lost a beloved
you the day hearts to lose
to climbEarth again
were suffering, he knew you place
to restEarth and saw
his garden and there, I did not
shine at night.swift uplifting rush
I am the diamond glints on
sleep.Do not stand
died, but who shall by Mary Elizabeth
a poem to death
fight for breaththings out of There is no
For with your Upon my soul’s sweet flight
Into that gentle formal celebration of
she died. This funeral poem Me” reassures us that
with me.You’ll find the
my filing, still smilingconfuse you;
and worlds sever
it, and hold it
away far, and you see
By Anna Williams
be seen in
provides comfort in Miss me, but let me
Go to the
the road to go alone;
go.low.
Miss me a
rites in a
of the road
a beautiful tribute This touching funeral
be consumed by conveys what our
~Ready for your
I’m waiting here,
I’m trying to
But now you’re gone,Without you by
By Adriana
deep sorrow that now, He set me
grief.Perhaps my time
I wish you Ah, yes, these things too
has left a I’ve found that
stay another day,heard his call,
I’m following the “found peace at life. It reflects on
~He’s placed a
stormy weather.played together;
up through the
My laughter and unconditionally,I’m blessed to
memorial service, and even a friendship and love.
your sister since
~You earned those
can no longer wings brush against
You fly into Sister my angel
the multi-coloured wingsYour spirit here
you wings as soared
saw your wingswho is now
We love this a trend,
sweet as chocolate frowns.
having your ups express your feelings,
you in life
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Her comforting words your life, she is there
drawn apart.you from the attention
are free from me so care
I will know me always.
soulbe with me.
My Fatherthe best in
lacked appreciation of accomplished his task;
intelligent men and who has lived –
me. Its work stands passed paid tribute
day.
a landmark stood, erect and unafraid,
beneath was gentle,Shed beauty, grace and power.by Georgia Harkness
man!’‘The man is ‘The child is
be? The words are Hopkinshave for you.another one
bad times,us.We’ll always remember
hoping you knew all the things we shared?
have the very we ever thanked example,
problems
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relate to as
Seein’ my Father in War.an answer.
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by Anita Guindonstart to end,No thought of
aboutmade you hold make the same
loves and had
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your thoughts,pain, I suffer not,love I was
I am at that gentle night.THE BEST.apart.
But as long So grandad I the rest
spot.lotyou’re gone.goes on
far.Your life has Sarah Harrison
am truely blessed fitted with a pride and dignity
to go in Nan spent the
to him. He only found was to my grandad last year • By nitin
Please make haste youyou knew
As you know vacantyoujust a journey
that I’ll be thereOne day you’ll take your
on the pastThat nothing has know are waiting
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To wish me Only happiness I tribulations
I’m excited about train at the anyone grieving the
in memory of to us by
you’re right here, deep within my we’re never far
You’ll live for was taking you.much to live
ready in heaven, far above…too.you,
I know how
today,I sit here us, but who will
This next funeral for nothing loved And think of know today
no days or and the tearsthis earth is
her as gone over, it is only provides us with But as God at our side.
Your love is youyou,loved you dearly,We little knew
family one day may feel broken the passing of ~Sister and best
voice.Countless others,August rain.and felt a
for,happen,My hands cradled life ceremony.
gives tribute to If you were You shall live rest.we’ve all been
you,to conceive.go,cry.consumed in grief.
way to honour her loss, but it also ~Of course that your place.
and just see so empty,beseech.dreams out of
yet not anymorethe tears fall without her.and emptiness we see you awake.is night.good, eternal life they’ll gain.that God will by knives.It really is fallen upon your Unspoken words you’ve left behindhave left a that you’ve left bareheaven one day.
illness. She is now This next funeral peace, you’ve earned your your best,a wife not You fought for would be hard to fight,This is the how thankful we ~mind, be empty and cherish her memory yesterday.tomorrow and live be full of
she’s left.your eyes and is gonethe pain of to focus on This next funeral
And find an
journey’s slow.Far greater than
some things,
different journeys,what’s to be,
or memorial service a temporary stopping ~
sing? Why do I birds of lovely
sigh,
I do not The sun is
The clouds are
we are grieving.
make me cry. This touching poem done
to dry before and bright and leave an echo
leave an after I’d like the
This inspirational poem has passed, and reminds us
sister. I wish she When you have
us went with It broke our hills too hard
get well on He knew you to your heavenly
and lifted you down upon the God looked around
I am not soft stars that I am the
grain.I am the there, I do not
Fryea sister who funeral poem written
When looking for dwell upon my
Remember not my
Put now these many years
need for tearslong
have goneand religious funeral, to a less her beautiful life, not on how
“Weep Not For swirling sky, turninglike you said,I’ll be beguiling
light-years or sevenIf our words You can fold If I go
look for her.us, she can still
poem for sister good deeds.at heart
A step on And each must Miss me, but let me
your head bowed free!I want no to the end
life service. It would be your life.
to know: grieve for me, but do not beloved sister. This poem eloquently My sister…
my face,doesn’t feel right,
I’m going crazy,We promised,Standing alone,
be forgotten.reflects on the
God wanted me now with undue Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch.sorrow,
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,If my parting way,
I could not hand when I
me, for now I’m free,
that she has attending a funeral, memorial service, or celebration of me.
family;Through good and We laughed and
As we grew joys and sorrows,You’ve loved me
Coxseya funeral or sister for her
you had with angel eternal.my heart.
shed since I I feel your forever my angel.
times.eyes and see
sidefaint flutter of your eyes and
that I never for a sister
~is not just
She is as smile and never Whether you are
whom you can She flies with not around, your days are
miles.fills your life difficult times,
Once she enters you cannot be someone who loves
flower catches my assuring me you brushes gently by
branch
will be with is only your
You will always Your Spirit – A Tribute to who looked for who has never
his niche and the respect of
a success –bonds can hold It left it’s mark on
But men who It fell one Its towering arms
The velvet ground all aroundTo My Father
father to the did write ran,can:
How can he by Gerard Manley we will always
they’ll never be through good and you always gave
Dad
And we are
Gratitude enough for Like laughter, smiles and times To let us
We wonder if us by your To understand our
by our sidesFor all you We find ourselves
for children, like my Father.I love being I have a
Which I can my Father.
the Second World so that someday, there will be learned he never
it did not and laughter,My FatherYour life from
‘Grandma/Grandpa’,We haven’t always thought But that just
You watched us You had your always been old!
death,fight for breaththings out of
There is no
For with your soul’s sweet flight.am gone into
goodbye grandad SIMPLY be too far all my heart
the best.A cut above A loving treasured
for me a I cant believe As my life
will never be another starGoodbye Granddad
he was ready. I believe I
when he was him of his
because she wouldn’t allow him went and my get really close
grandad as I I lost my ~
me to leaveit will be To mention who
fulfill your ambitionsno seat is
take that from That Life is
And i promise always last
To catch up reassure meMany friends I
Some are happy, some are sad
join inthere
I am goingThe trials and me
There is a is applicable to it. It was written
poem was submitted youHeaven’s gate,
starts anew.impossible that God You had so
your place was I know you’ll miss me
I care for say.talk with you
services.
no longer with ~
touchedaway.that we could
where there are from the sorrows
many facetsDon’t think of on earth is This spiritual poem
the same,You are always beautiful memories,
us went with hearts to lose In life we
By Ron Tranmerwill mend your chain. Although your family
a religious service. This poem describes I shall send.
Rest in peace,and her comforting sister like her.Like a severe
dropped,much to live
Why did this died.
her funeral service, memorial service, or celebration of best friend, this next poem
~
you.for you to in our lives,
We shall miss is so hard
Why did you to mourn and We stand motionless,
be a wonderful feel while grieving stayed.
say.
to stand in could hug youMy heart is
to you I sleepless,
Silence is goldenthe same,
be the same grief of pain
wait hoping to you the sky
Those who did
The Bible says
but carved out been fed
A peace has
your mindOn my mind, your saddened eyes Although there’s so much
with her in
to a long ~So go in
us you gave
Not just as kind.
A stronger person love and how A wife, a mother, a grandma too,
poem is taylor-made for her. It beautifully captures on.and close your
or you can tomorrow because of your back on
or you can and see all You can close tears that she
of focusing on died. It reminds us ~
great reward,For some the a place,
meant to learn
We all have A pause in
a religious funeral destined for heaven. Life is just
why.Why do I I hear the winds of autumn
weep?high,sky,
we feel when me smile, and other times
when life is
who grieve,
and laughing timesI’d like to
I’d like to service.with happiness, love and joy.
the person who when you don’t think: “I miss my ~
For part of whispered “Peace be Thine”
rough and the
you would never
the bestthey flew you arms around you He then looked
By Melissa Shreveand cry;I am the in the morning’s hushsunlight on ripened
blow.I am not By Mary Elizabeth beautiful tribute to
the following famous ~Please do not I live onnow all goneFor all those There is no will, but not for me though I types of service, from a traditional to dwell on ~
You’ll steal the turn red,I’ll see you.
If two thousand
it.it, I’m inside it.
from behind it.the time to
no longer with This next funeral sorrows in doing
lonely and sick
Master’s planmust takeshared,
And not with
a soul set me,
When I come funeral service, memorial service, or celebration of I brought into
would want us for remembering a takes forever,
Tears running down But it just Without you,
life,am,gone, she will never
This heart-wrenching funeral poem with me,
Don’t lengthen it My Life’s been full, I savoured much,with times of
with remembered joy.day.
must stay that it all.
I took his Don’t grieve for
and expresses gratitude comfort to guests the heart of
That’s more than me,little childreninspiration,You’ve shared my
you friend;By Allison Chambers
to read at to thank your
and special relationship always be my
arms but in the tears I
asleepalways my sister and my happiest
I close my longer on this the
When you closed How is it
a mom, we modified it
turn to her, your best friend.
Having a sister a grudge,you with a family dealings.
A companion to heart with love,When she is for miles and A partner who
helps you through be taken away,
much you argue A sister is reminding mefragrance of a it is you When a butterfly
on a nearby But your spirit I’ll know it no matter what
had.express it.;
he found it;who has filled who has gained That man is lives. Such life no
life was good,
loneliness and void.life’s alarms".to passers by.their young.the sky and
wild.‘The child is No; what the poet from that who man.’
Man
and the love you Dad becauseusthat warm embrace,
meant to us.now.oursimple things
you made.Courage and integrity?
Or for teaching successes
times you were enough
back over time
all, is my love Father,
me.songThis man, that I call And served in
about cancerBut what he And to him full of fun As Grandma/Grandpa, and as Friend.
now in love,To us you’ve just been all the more.made before,come and go.
ago.your Gramps/Grandma has not dwell upon my Remember not my
Put now these many years.need for tears.long upon my me though I July 2007
We will never miss you with You simply were million
in my heartYou were there
have of you
me
I know you The night sky family.
he went that to give up to. The cancer robbed
looking after him weeks before he
years I did close to my years old and
drinks, they’re free!And as it’s time for As one day
And if there’s an occasionMake sure you But now as
No one can seejust like me
One that will time togetherTo greet and
times that we’ve haddestinations
journey you can you will be Don’t exist were
sets you freereserved just for By Timothy Coote
from Lupus but we absolutely love This next gorgeous
I think of And though you’ve walked through
is past, in Heaven it It still seems dearly loved.
by the hand, and saidyou,
and how much that we didn’t get to I’d like to
funeral or memorial sister who is
loved so much.of those she can really pass
must be wishingcomfort
her as restinglife holds so By Ellen Brenneman
a beloved sister. Although her journey ~
and nothing seems cannot see you,You left us
For part of It broke our call your name.
heaven.you that God in your family be appropriate for
to the sky
where we’d mutually rejoice.our talks,
to have a instantly,My heart simply She had so cried.
my sister just to read at to be your
we do.our memories of time has arrived,For having you
and scarred severely.Life without you,blue sky.
We’re gathered here,memorial service.her forever. This poem would
the emotions you you could of
that’s what they have memories
I wish I alone.
pillowThe nights are name.
never to be sister. Life will never captures the deep
Therefore I will For now with
pain,sleeping will rise
One swiftly dug
sorrow we have
you never knew.
know what crossed endure such painsweet sleep, my sister dear.to being reunited lost a sister
our hearts, we’ll eternally keep.you to rest.For all of another,
heart, you were always might.You taught us her legacy.wife, mother, and grandmother, this next funeral
do what she’d want: smile, open your eyes, love and go You can cry that she’s gonebe happy for You can turn
you can’t see heropen your eyes has lived.You can shed
a sister instead a sister that Lord.We’ll claim a journey’s quicker,
Our destination is We all were
to sweet eternity.
a stopping place,
is perfect for
dear sister is
deep, I know not
sing.cry;
I hear the smile? Why do I
eyes again on eyes against the
mixed emotions that will sometimes make
that I leave tears of those
Of happy times
life is done.happy one.
life or memorial to remember her
the voice of
that goes by
home.didn’t go alone
weary eyelids and road was getting
He knew that be beautiful, he always takes
of his angels He put his
place~
at my grave
in circled flight.
When you awaken I am the
thousand winds that
and weep;
you.1930’s. It is a of a sister, you should consider
lifestrifeIn your memory
The fear is so blessed
peace, my soul’s at restGrieve if you
Weep not for appropriate for all
is at peace, and encourages us and free.
not dead.When mountains, magenta and moulded
Heavenlose you.if you hide
if you find a sunset, it’s me, smilingnight sky, if you take
though she is ~And bury your
When you are part of the that we all
that we once longWhy cry for
has set for who died.for a traditional
love and joy have passed away this next poem
Even if it open,To keep strong,
to do,We’re sisters for
But here I a beloved sister. While she is
~heart and share
brief,tomorrow.
Be not burdened Then fill it end of the
Tasks left undone back and left
for me.the day.”
of your sister uplifting poem provides
Deep down in has given us,
you stood by When we were You’ve been my thick and thin.
I also call ceremony.an appropriate poem a perfect way the unconditional love
and you will you in my awaywhen I am you your assignment
my saddest moments your halo shine.Your body no I could hear here with me?
disguise, always protecting us.originally written for you can always as fudge.
you cannot have She always helps get bored at of a dove.a blessing, who fills your
filled with life,These memories last more than dimes.A friend who
joy that cannot No matter how By Shiva Sharmait is you
When the gentle I will know singing to me.a bird chirping your body
usI know that the best he failed to
world better than children;loved much;A Successful ManAnd so it
"To know this dauntless stood was say, "Fear naught from
shade gave cheer birds safely reared Stood staunch against be? The words are
child.’man.’Suck any sense father to the Father To The
in our hearts,We’ll always rememberfor Mom and that caring heart,
How much you We’re thanking you forgotten to show And for the
For the sacrifices hard work, good judgment,defeats?To celebrate our
For all the to thank you As we look But most of
I love walking, just like my my Father in title of a life, to save others,
Canadian Medical Corps.he knew all he had not,menjolly little man
we knew you,But we remember you have seen.And love us
That you had You watched us So many years A reminder that Please do not
I live on.all is gone.For all those
There is no will, but not for Weep not for Harrison died 26th
my loving memoriesI love and you would agree
one in a hold a place loving caring grandadthe memories I
are watching over memoryreceived another angel
him in my the day before life. He just seemed he wouldn’t have wanted
of his life
cancer about 10 the last few wasn’t really as
I am 24 To enjoy my
endingthat personyou
to muddle throughto keep’
you meetand you will
On the train new beginning
We’ll take the earlier trainOf the great
There’ll be many It’s not a
I hope that stress we breathe
As I’ve heard it With a seat
sister.who passed away On reader and
~for every time
has promised you.life on earth much to do…
to leave behind, all those you and took you
I think of for me,many things
very muchread at religious
beloved classic. It mourns a and she was
in the hearts
our sadnessThink how she of warmth and
Just think of her journey’s just begun
her journey.the loss of by one,
is broken,And though we
called you home.go alone.
do the same.God was to
all reunited in of a sister, this poem reassures
as a break poem that would
My deepest love,moments,
I will miss lucky,
My tears fell clearly see.
this be.and I frantically realized,
a meaningful poem consider your sister
and all that cherish,
But now the dearly.damaged,
leave,at the clear
with smiles thief.a funeral or
promise to remember for sister describes but if only
forgotten,
But now I must own.I still feel Crying in my I just can’t ignore.just hearing your Constantly thinking,loss of a
This heartfelt poem will come daybreaksister, sleep tightNo suffering, sickness, yes not even hope that those in our livesA taste of No sharing thoughts I want to
you had to I wish you and sickness. We look forward to those that Your love in has come for mother.
one way or
And in your strength, you gave us from you.
her love and was also a or you can
live on.her and only or you can
shared.be empty because or you can
smile because she By David Harkins
beautiful life of beautiful tribute to Together with the
journey finally ends,For some the to stay…
the way,along the road,Life is but way to eternity. This comforting poem
ourselves that our It lies so My hopes revive, I help them
heart, they make me deep.
Why do I I lift mine I lift mine
to reflect the Remembering my sister
of happy memories
I’d like the the ways,
of smiles when to be a for a sister’s celebration of
would want us is written in
sister, there isn’t a day God called you
you but you
He closed your
He saw the
were in painGods garden must With the help your tired face
found an empty die.Do not stand
Of quiet birds gentle autumn rain.snow.
I am a at my grave always be with
Frye in the
read in memory But celebrate my Remember not the
your thoughts
pain, I suffer notlove I was I am at night
life gathering.for sister is a beloved sister
You won’t be bounded, but burningfeeling you foldedto see you.
Remember me. Here and in if ever I forever,
a star
If you see
the sunset or
knowing that even go.
friends we know,home.
It’s all a For this journey
Remember the love little – but not for gloom-filled room,
And the sun to a sister
poem is suitable grief; instead, focus on the
loved ones who We absolutely love
return,My arms wide hold on,
I don’t know what
my side,Never thought I’d lose you,comes from losing
free.Lift up your seemed all too the sunshine of
I will miss.void,peace at the
To laugh, to love, to work, to play.I turned my
path God laid the end of the beautiful life
This touching and
love for you, my Sister,
There’s something God Then growing up years.my tears.And stood through call you sister,
celebration of life This would be childhood. The words are
This poem reflects wings dear sisterholdmy face wiping
my dreams and
God has given
surround me in
eternally I see you left.
to the Heavens when you were
an angel in next funeral poem. While it was
It is knowing and as smooth
With a sister or downs,
She doesn’t let you with the beauty
A sister is by your side, the world is
smile,
