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Tag Archives: Death Poems for Loved Ones
“Farewell” by Anne Bronte
Anne Bronte's poem teaches a lesson in remembering loved ones
You’re probably familiar with the works of Charlotte and Emily Bronte; but what you may not know is that they had a younger sister, Anne, who was also a writer. Unfortunately, the successes of her older siblings tended to leave … Continue reading
“The Drowned Brother” by Brendan Constantine
Brendan Constantine looks at how bureaucracy helps us cope with loss in "The Drowned Brother"
“The Drowned Brother” is a eulogy-like poem that explores the revelation of the death of a brother in Brendan Constantine’s latest poetic novel “Calamity Joe”. In the poem, the narrator Calamity Joe relates the impersonal actions of the police and … Continue reading
“Death, be not proud” by John Donne
John Donne suggests that death is, in fact, conquerable
I once loaned my mom a book of 17th century plays I had just finished, at her request; the same day, she returned it to me, complaining about the difficult “Shakespearean” language in which it was written. The fact is, … Continue reading
Posted in The Next Chapter
Tagged Death Poems for Loved Ones, John Donne, John Donne Poems, Poem
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“I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.”
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
”I shift my pillow closer to the full moon.”
- Saiba, Died on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, 1858 at the age of fifty-one.
“I am in a duel to death with this wallpaper. One of us has to go.”
Oscar Wilde
Posted in Laughter is Medicine
Tagged Death Poems, Death Poems for Loved Ones, Death Quotes, Death Saying, Death Saying Goodbye, Famous Death Poems, Famous Sayings About Death, Funny Death Sayings, Memorial Poems, Poem for a Funeral, Poems for Funeral, Poems on Death, Sayings About Death of a Friend
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