Happy Funeral / memorial poem - such a thing?

[pasinphoebe]

I’m going to reading a poem at a funeral for a family member. However I’m struggling to find anything .. I don’t want a typical ‘funeral’ poem .. eg no Rosetti, no Auden .. I really wanted a gentle poem about her .. smiling, happy, joyful. If that makes sense?

I read that modern poems can’t be written out on the internet which may not be helping.
Please can anyone help me honour a much loved family member by suggesting any poems about a joyful, fun, warm person ?

I’m really sorry for your loss. I like Mary Oliver’s ‘wild geese’ - not for everyone, but I find it very uplifting and it’s in my funeral plan!

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.