Poems for Funerals are a brilliant way of expressing your feelings about the person you have lost because they are very personal things – but where do you start to write one. It is so daunting when you have a blank piece of paper in front of you and you don’t know where to start.
I was given a very simple piece of advice – in fact so simple it had never occurred to me. Find a poem you like – and then adapt it. It can be as much or as little as you want. Just changing ‘she’ to ‘he’ can be sufficient. If you want to be a little more adventurous you could maybe add in something about the friend you have lost. If the poem refers to children or grandchildren you can make it more appropriate, putting in your relationship. You could put something about hobbies, or things you have shared together, a shared memory, anything you want to share with the people who are there to celebrate the life of your friend or family.
You don’t have to be too elaborate and it doesn’t have to be long, just enough to tell the world how you feel. It is so important to [click to continue…]
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