9 essential friendship poems for life

The saying goes that “whoever has a friend has a treasure”. Friendship, that strange relationship of trust, love and affection between two or more people who are not bonds of blood but the contact itself between them, is something practically essential for the being human.

Having friends helps us live our life with positivity, sharing our life experiences with like-minded people and helping us to mature, learn and grow as well as being able to lean on them in difficult times.

Friendship has been valued since ancient times, having been the subject of reflection and research both from philosophy and from different sciences. This concept has also been the inspiration for numerous artistic works, including beautiful poems that try to reflect the importance of having a true friend. from among them we will see a selection of friendship poems.

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9 great friendship poems

Below we leave you with a total of nine very beautiful friendship poems, which we can read to inspire ourselves and reflect on the importance of those people who surround us and to whom affection unites us, having chosen each other to share part of our lives.

1. Friendship (Carlos Castro Saavedra)

Friendship is the same as a hand. that in another hand supports his fatigue. and feel that the fatigue is mitigated. and the way becomes more human.

The sincere friend is the brother. clear and elemental like the spike, like the bread, like the sun, like the ant. who confuses honey with summer.

Great wealth, sweet company. it is that of the being that arrives with the day. and clarifies our interior nights.

Source of coexistence, of tenderness, is the friendship that grows and matures. in the midst of joys and sorrows.

This Colombian poet expresses in his verses the support and consolation offered by sincere friendship with someone, as well as the joy and affection with which it enriches our lives.

2. Some friendships are eternal (Pablo Neruda)

Sometimes you find in life. a special friendship: that someone who comes into your life. it completely changes her.

That someone who makes you laugh incessantly; that someone who makes you believe that in the world. there really are good things.

That someone who convinces you. that there is a door ready. for you to open That's an everlasting friendship...

When you are sad. and the world seems dark and empty, that everlasting friendship lifts your spirits. and makes that world dark and empty. suddenly look bright and full.

Your eternal friendship helps you. in difficult, sad, and great confusion moments.

If you walk away, your eternal friendship follows you.

If you lose your way, your eternal friendship guides you and makes you happy.

Your eternal friendship leads you by the hand. and he tells you that everything will be fine.

If you find such a friendship. you feel happy and full of joy. because you have nothing to worry about.

You have a friendship for life, since an eternal friendship has no end.

Neruda wrote these verses in order to make us see how friendship helps us move on, to get excited about the day to day and to share and make us see the hope of a better future.

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3. My friend (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

My friend, I have much need your friendship. I am thirsty for a companion who respects in me, above the disputes of reason, the pilgrim of that fire.

Sometimes I need to taste the promised heat in advance. And rest, beyond myself, in that appointment that will be ours.

Hello peace. Beyond my clumsy words, beyond the reasoning that can deceive me, you consider in me, simply the Man, you honor in me the ambassador of beliefs, of customs, of love individuals.

If I differ from you, far from undermining you I magnify you. You question me as the traveler is questioned,

I, who like everyone else, experience the need to be recognized, I feel pure in you and I go to you. I have the need to go there where I am pure.

They have never been my formulas or my adventures. those that informed you about what I am, but that the acceptance of who I am has made you, necessarily, indulgent towards those wanderings and those formulas.

I am grateful to you because you receive me as I am. What am I to do with a friend who judges me?

If I still fight, I'll fight a little for you. I need you. I have the need of helping you to live.

The author of "The Little Prince" expresses in this poem the need for a friend who does not judge him, who supports and respects you and who accepts you unconditionally.

4. Poem to a friend (Unknown)

I can't give you solutions for every problem. life, I don't even have answers for your doubts or fears, but I can listen to you and share it with you.

I can not change your past nor your future. But when you need me I'll be with you. I can't stop you from tripping. I can only offer you my hand to hold you. and don't fall

Your joys, your triumphs and your successes are not mine. But I sincerely enjoy when I see you happy. I do not judge the decisions you make in life. I limit myself to support you, to stimulate you and to help you if I do. you ask.

I cannot draw limits for you within which you must. act, but I do offer you the necessary space to. grow.

I can't help your sufferings when some pain you. breaks my heart, but I can cry with you and pick up. the pieces to put it back together.

I can not tell you who you are, neither who you should be. I can only love you as you are and be your friend. These days I prayed for you... These days I started to remember my friends more. precious.

I am a happy person: I have more friends than you. imagined.

That's what they tell me, they show me. It is what I feel for all of them.

I see the sparkle in his eyes, the spontaneous smile and the. joy they feel when they see me.

And I also feel peace and joy when I see them and. when we speak, be it in joy or in the. serenity, these days I thought of my friends, among them, you appeared.

You were not up or down, or in the middle. You did not start nor finish the list. You were the number one nor the final number.

What I know is that you stood out for some quality that. you transmitted and with which you have been for a long time. ennobles my life

And I don't claim to be the first, either. second or third on your list. It is enough that you just love me like a friend. Then I understood that we really are friends. I did what every friend: I prayed... and I thanked God for you. Thanks for being my friend

On this occasion, it is expressed how much friendship should be valued, not as a position or competition to be the best or the worst, but as a relationship of affection and sincere concern for each other. This poem has been attributed to Jorge Luís Borges, but it is not the work of said author.

5. Friendship poem (Octavio Paz)

Friendship is a river and a ring. The river flows through the ring.

The ring is an island in the river. The river says: before there was no river, then only river.

Before and after: what erases friendship. delete it? The river flows and the ring is formed.

Friendship erases time and thus sets us free. It is a river that, when flowing, invents its rings.

In the sand of the river our footprints are erased. In the sand we look for the river: where have you gone?

We live between oblivion and memory: this moment is an island fought by incessant time

This friendship poem reflects how this bond is built over time, flowing and reinventing itself through time.

6. Friends Who Forever Left Us (Edgar Allan Poe)

Friends that forever. they left us, dear friends forever gone, out of Time. and out of space! For the soul nourished with sorrows, for the transitory heart, perhaps

Although he is best known for his novels, Edgar Allan Poe also wrote various poems. In this short example we observe how the author expresses the sadness that overwhelms him when contemplating how they bury a friend.

7. Friendship throughout (Jaime Gil de Biedma)

The days go by slowly. and many times we were alone. But then there are happy moments. to let oneself be in friendship.

Look: it's us.

A destiny led deftly. the hours, and company sprang up. Nights came. To their love. we lit words, the words that we later abandoned. to go up to more: we began to be companions. that are known above the voice or the sign.

Now yes. They can rise. the kind words. -those who no longer say things-, float slightly on the air; because we are engaged. in world, sarmentous. of accumulated history, and there is the company that we form full, leafy of presences. behind each one. watches over his house, the field, the distance.

But be quiet. I want to tell you something. I just want to say that we are all together. Sometimes, when speaking, someone forgets. his arm on mine, and even though I'm quiet I give thanks, because there is peace in the bodies and in us.

I want to tell you how we brought. our lives here, to count them. Long, with each other. in the corner we talked, so many months! that we know each other well, and in memory. joy is equal to sadness. For us, the pain is cute.

Oh the time! Everything is now understood.

This well-known 20th century poet speaks to us in this poem of the memory and longing for lost friendship, what was shared and what the support of those who are our friends means.

8. Poem 8 (John Burroughs)

He who, when you leave, misses you sadly. The one who, upon your return, welcomes you with joy. The one whose irritation never lets itself be noticed. That's who I call a friend.

He who gives sooner than asks. The one who is the same today and tomorrow. The one who will share your sorrow as well as your joy. That's who I call a friend.

The one who is always willing to help. The one whose advice was always good. The one who is not afraid to defend you when attacked. That's who I call a friend.

This text is a fragment of a poem by the naturalist John Burroughs, who establishes different elements of what he considers, perhaps in an idealized way, friendship.

9. Friends (Julio Cortázar)

In tobacco, in coffee, in wine, at the edge of the night they rise. like those voices that sing in the distance. without knowing what, along the way.

Lightly brothers of fate, dioscuros, pale shadows, they scare me. the flies of habits, they put up with me. to stay afloat in the meantime.

The dead speak more but in the ear, and the living are a warm hand and a roof, the sum of what has been won and what has been lost.

So one day in the boat of the shadow, from so much absence my chest will shelter. this ancient tenderness that he names them.

This well-known writer expresses in this poem his concept of friendship and different items that remind him of his friends from the past.