Note: some are sad poems about lost friends.
Since I am a dog lover and dog is humankind’s best animal friend, I naturally had to include some poems on the topic. (Read more at the link) Friendship Poems about our best canine friends Stayed the same, my last name remains mine?” To register my hello so you know my number Hesitant to speak to me, pausing for a moment (Read more at the link) Hoping to Hear from a Former Friend By Margaret Hasse We’d laugh (at what haven’t we laughed?), then Who’d still remember his talent, his good looks, his self-Ībsorption. Made me ache to call you-the only person I know
Teacher evicted from his Carnegie Hall rooftop apartment “In today’s paper, a story about our high school drama (Read more at the link) To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death by Lloyd Schwartz
(Read more at the link) A Walk in the Cemetery by Gary Soto You most likely would have made a joke of itĭid you hear about the two donkeys stuck in an airshaft” I don’t believe I could have helped with the transition I did not realize that you were fading from sight I loved my friend.” Overnight by John Yau I love the beautiful simplicity of this poem. The next set of poems are about friends who are lost to death or time. I included this one since I feel it speaks to friendship with women.Ī poem about the importance of friendship with guests. Here are two poems about friends with people we don’t know, our fellow humankind. (Read more at the link) Friends to the World Of November, or the forceful light of summer. Walks over to your house in the bashful light This poem reminds me of my childhood summers in Chicago. (Read more at the link) The Friend By Matt Hart (Read more at the link) Your Catfish Friend by Richard BrautiganĪ charming poem about a person contemplating being a catfish in a pond. That I could be this excellence at this time (Read more at the link) To all my friends by May Yang I love the silliness of Shel Silverstein and all of his poems.Īnd everyone wins” A poision tree by William BlakeĪlso, a list of friendship poems would be remiss without Winnie the Pooh. This video is a beautiful letter to a friend about mental illness. A Love Letter to My Best Friend by Andrew Warner Having a Coke with You could be interpreted as romantic love but I always read it as a Sharing a Coke with You, Friend. Partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt…” Some friendship poems are longer than others, so I included the first few lines but you’ll have to go to the link to read the rest of the poem. This list is by no means exhaustive it’s a list of poems that I liked that brought out different aspects of friendship. These poems come from a variety of eras and viewpoints and include themes of friends lost, friends to the world, and also bad friends. I’ve compiled a list of 20 friendship poems in honor of those people who keep the loneliness away. However, there are a plethora of poems about family members so I decided to focus on the harder task: poems about friendship. In contrast, obesity raises the chance of dying before the age of 70 by around 30 per cent.”įriends and family are important to our wellbeing. They discovered that lonely people had a 50 per cent increased risk of early death, compared to those with good social connections. looked at 218 studies into the health effects of social isolation and loneliness involving nearly four million people. Back in 2017, the Telegraph UK reported, “Researchers in the U.S. Studies have shown that loneliness can be detrimental to health.