Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we are still. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the ...

Jane Kenyon’s “The Pond at Dusk” is a quiet, mischievous reckoning with nature and mortality. Our critic A.O. Scott plumbs ...

You can’t pick your family, so a funeral for a friend is always a difficult thing. Funeral poems for friends will highlight what made that person stand out from everyone else in the whole world. 28.

5 steps to choosing a funeral poem. 1. Write or find a poem with a real connection "A good place to start is an anthology of remembrance poems," says Tiffany Atkinson, ...

Yet then, like a person being hanged, she feels the “Plank in Reason” break beneath her. As the poem ends, on an inconclusive em-dash, its thoughts cut short, its speaker drops utterly out of “knowing ...

They talked of her ever-present smile. Her happy, generous heart. How she lived each day with joy. And how much she adored her two children. An estimated 500 mourners crowded into St. Joan of Arc C… ...

The Carter Center has shared a heartfelt poem written in 1995 by former President Jimmy Carter, 99, to his beloved wife Rosalynn, 96, ahead of her funeral in Plains, Georgia.