Friendship Poems

Popular Friendship Poems

A Friend

by Gillian Jones

A person who will listen and not condemn
Someone on whom you can depend
They will not flee when bad times are here
Instead they will be there to lend an ear
They will think of ways to make you smile
So you can be happy for a while
When times are good and happy there after
They will be there to share the laughter
Do not forget your friends at all
For they pick you up when you fall

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do you think we're friends in every universe?

by t.e. talbott

"do you think we're friends in every universe?"

i think sometimes
you're an unexpected present in June,
the gift of consideration outside of birthdays.
sometimes i'm gratitude, a full heart
thanking the heavens for you.

sometimes i’m the white-washed face of God
in someone's painting,

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Youth And Age

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,
Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee -
Both were mine! Life went a-maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!
When I was young? -Ah, woeful When!
Ah! for the change 'twixt Now and Then!
This breathing house not built with hands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,
O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands

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On Friendship

by Khalil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay.'
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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Be A Friend

by Edgar Albert Guest

Be a friend. You don't need money;
Just a disposition sunny;
Just the wish to help another
Get along some way or other;
Just a kindly hand extended
Out to one who's unbefriended;
Just the will to give or lend,
This will make you someone's friend.

Be a friend. You don't need glory.

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Recent Friendship Poems

Jij bent mijn oase in de woestijn

by Mario Odekerken

Te midden van droogte
waar alles verstilt
en de lucht zindert van leegte
sta jij daar-

stil,aanwezig,
zonder iets te vragen,
zonder iets te beloven
en toch ben je alles wat ik nodig heb.

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Eternal wings

by Mario Odekerken

Our love flies on the wings of eternity,
not bound by time or distance,
but carried gently through moments
both quiet and loud.

It does not ask for proof,
nor beg for permanence-
it simply is,
like breath,like sky,
like the hush between heartbeats.

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Look who’s talking

by Aldo Kraas

Look who's talking
Badly about me
He tells me that I am
A religious fanatic
That is wrong
Because that is not me
Also he doesn't know me that
Well
That is the truth
I was born a Christian

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Vertrouwen

by Mario Odekerken

Vertrouwen is een open hand,
geen woord,
maar een stilte die blijft.
Het kijkt niet om,
het vraagt niets terug,
en toch is het alles.

I'm Sorry

by AP Writes

At the time, I hated you for it,
and I’m sorry because you didn’t deserve that.
At the time, we fought about it,
and I’m sorry because you were only helping.
Back then, we stopped talking,
and I’m sorry because you were right.
Back then, I couldn’t look you in the eyes,
and I’m sorry because I still can’t.
I used to love you,
and I’m sorry because I stopped.

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