Memorial poem...?

Question

I need to think of a short poem or verse to be inscripted on my mothers head stone, but i'm having difficulty -

I just need some ideas or examples to get me started at least.

I'd like to talk more about how much she was loved etc as opposed to how much she is now missed. Can anyone help?

Thankyou!

Answer 1

I am sorry for your loss, and hope this might help, if just a bit. Trying to find a poem for an occasion is so very difficult to do. The best line I know of to describe someone in such a way is from e.e. cummings. I don't know the name of the poem (they were mostly known by the first line) but the specific line was

"in thy beauty is the dilemma of flutes"

It means, even an instrument that creates some of the most beautiful music when played well, can't describe (play music) something that approaches this person's beauty.

I know beauty isn't what you were looking for, but look to cummings for lines like this. He was a master of capturing the complicated in a single phrase.

Another that comes to mind (just as I was posting) is the poem "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. Check these authors out for some good suggestions.  

Again, I am truly sorry for your loss.

Answer 2

As much as I miss my Momma so sweet                                                      The touch of her gentle hand with a pat on the cheek                     And a shake of a chin with a touch so meek ;                                   I know the angels in heaven would weep                                                      If we kept her with us in this world below                                                      And denied the angels of her heavenly glow.                                                                                                   I lost my mother last year and so many emotions came to surface. What helped me through a lot of grief was family and writing.

Answer 3

Memorial Poem:

Mother

You are and will always be loved

The tears coming from the eyes the pain

I have and my love is coming from the heart.

The time we had when you were here

was fun and pleasure

Now the memories of you

I will carry in an album

and they will be treasured.

Answer 4

a war poem