9 essential friendship poems for life

A selection of verses that deal with the subject of friendship, one of the most complicated and emotional.

The saying goes that "he who has a friend, has a treasure". Friendship, that strange relationship of trust, affection and affection between two or more people who are not bound by Blood ties but by their own contact with each other, is something practically essential for human beings.

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

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

9 great friendship poems

Here we leave you with a total of nine poems of friendship of great beauty, which we can read to inspire us and reflect on the importance of those people around us and to whom we are united by affection, having chosen each other to share part of our lives.

1. Friendship (Carlos Castro Saavedra)

Friendship is the same as a hand that rests its fatigue on another hand and feels that the tiredness is mitigated and the road becomes more human.

The sincere friend is the brother clear and elemental as the ear of corn, like the bread, like the sun, like the ant that confuses honey with summer.

Great wealth, sweet company is that of the being that comes with the day and brightens our inner 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 comfort 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 enters your life changes it completely.

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

That someone who convinces you that there is a door ready for you to open it. That is an eternal friendship...

When you're sad and the world seems dark and empty that everlasting friendship lifts your spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full.

Your eternal friendship helps you in times of difficulty, sadness and of great confusion.

If you move away, your eternal friendship follows you.

If you lose your way your eternal friendship guides you and cheers you up.

Your eternal friendship takes you by the hand and tells you that everything will be all right.

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

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

Neruda wrote these verses with the purpose of making us see how friendship helps us to go onto look forward to the day to day and to share and make us see the hope of a better future.

3. My friend (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

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

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

I find peace. Beyond my clumsy words, beyond the reasonings that can deceive me, you consider in me, simply the Man, you honor in me the ambassador of beliefs, of customs, of particular loves.

If I differ from you, far from undermining you, I aggrandize you. You question me as one questions a traveler,

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

It has never been my formulas nor my wanderings that informed you about what I am, but the acceptance of who I am has made you, necessarily, indulgent towards those wanderings and those formulas.

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

If I still fight, I will fight a little for you. I need you. I need to help you 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 him and accepts him unconditionally..

4. Poem to a friend (Unknown)

I can't give you solutions to all of life's problems life, nor do I have answers for your doubts or fears, but I can listen to you and share it with you.

I can't change your past or your future. But when you need me I will be there for you. I cannot stop you from stumbling. I can only offer you my hand to hold on to and not 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 encourage you and to help you if you ask me to do so. if you ask me to.

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

I cannot avoid your sufferings when some sorrow breaks your heart, but I can weep with you heartbreaks, but I can weep with you and pick up the pieces the pieces to put it back together again.

I cannot tell you who you are or who you should be. I can only love you as you are and be your friend. In these days I prayed for you..... In these days I started remembering my most precious friendships. precious friends.

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

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

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

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

You were not above, not below, not in the middle. You were not at the top or the bottom of the list. You weren't number one or number one at the end.

What I do know is that you stood out because of some quality that you you conveyed and with which my life has long been ennobled my life.

And I have no claim to be first, second or third on your list. second or third on your list. It is enough that you love me as a friend. Then I understood that we really are friends. I did what every friend does: I prayed... and thanked God for you. Thank you 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 one another.. This poem has been attributed to Jorge Luis Borges, but it is not the work of that author.

5. Poem of Friendship (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, afterwards only river.

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

Friendship erases time and thus frees us. It is a river that, as it flows, 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 instant is an island fought by incessant time.

This poem of friendship reflects how this bond is built up over timeflowing and reinventing itself through time.

6. Friends who forever left us (Edgar Allan Poe)

Friends who forever left us, dear friends forever gone, out of Time and out of Space! For the soul nourished with sorrows, For the troubled heart, perchance

Although best known for his novels, Edgar Allan Poe also wrote several poems. In this short example we can see how the author expresses the sadness he feels when he sees a friend being buried.

7. Amistad a lo largo (Jaime Gil de Biedma)

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

Look: that's us.

A destiny skilfully guided the hours, and the company sprouted. Nights came. To the love of them we lit words, words that we later abandoned to go up to more: we began to be the companions who know each other above the voice or the sign.

Now we are. The gentle words the gentle words -those that no longer say things-, float lightly on the air; for we are entangled in the world, sarmentosos of accumulated history, and the company we form is full, lush with presences. Behind each one of us watches over his house, the countryside, the distance.

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

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

Oh, time! Now everything is understood.

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

8. Poem 8 (John Burroughs)

He who, when you leave, misses you with sadness He who, on your return, welcomes you with joy He whose irritation is never noticed That's the one I call a friend.

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

The one who is always ready to help The one whose advice was always good The one who is not afraid to defend you when you are under attack That's the one 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 the tobacco, in the coffee, in the 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 destiny, dark, pale shadows, they frighten me the flies of the habits, they endure me that I remain afloat amidst so much whirlpool.

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

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

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