When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with moving funeral poems Reader's Digest Story by Sarah Jinee Park ...

What to write on funeral flowers or sympathy cards. It can be overwhelming to know what to say. ... Poems for funeral flowers. My friend you are a leaving. It’s time for you to go.

Paul Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” contains the famed line “I know why the caged bird sings.” Maya Angelou used Dunbar’s line for the title of her acclaimed 1969 memoir.