Loyalty of a friend is sometimes betrayed and friendship poetry is often a tool used to soften the blow of a betrayed friendship to disconnect in a peaceful manner.  Friendship poetry can also help build on the relationship between friends and make them stronger than before.  Friendships are found as a great crutch for many of us through times of struggle and a source for inspiration.

It takes a tremendous amount of skill to decipher your emotions about friends and even more so when it comes time to put it into writing.  There are infinite meanings to the word friendship.  Our friends and family allow us to experience an infinite array of diversity in who we choose to honor with the title of friend and reflects ourselves and the choices we make, both big and small in our journey through life, making friendships so vital and great assets in our lives.

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

-Thomas Jefferson

What would our world be like without our friends?
When life isn't going the way we want it to we always have our best friends to turn to for support. Friendship poems express the deep feelings of love and appreciation that we have towards our best friends for just being there for us.

Broken Friendship Poetry
What about the best friend you though you had who turned out to not be such a best friend after all. Trusting a friend or best friend with your secrets and then having them break your friendship can be a devastating experience. But if you can't trust your friend who can you trust?

Friendship Poem of the Day


FOR FRIENDS ONLY
Ours yet not ours, being set apart
As a shrine to friendship,
Empty and silent most of the year,
This room awaits from you
What you alone, as visitor, can bring,
A weekend of personal life.

In a house backed by orderly woods,
Facing a tractored sugar-beet country,
Your working hosts engaged to their stint,
You are unlike to encounter
Dragons or romance: were drama a craving,
You would not have come.

Books we do have for almost any
Literate mood, and notepaper, envelopes,
For a writing one (to "borrow" stamps
Is the mark of ill-breeding):
Between lunch and tea, perhaps a drive;
After dinner, music or gossip.

Should you have troubles (pets will die
Lovers are always behaving badly)
And confession helps, we will hear it,
Examine and give our counsel:
If to mention them hurts too much,
We shall not be nosey.

Easy at first, the language of friendship

Is, as we soon discover,
Very difficult to speak well, a tongue
With no cognates, no resemblance
To the galimatias of nursery and bedroom,
Court rhyme or shepherd's prose,

And, unless spoken often, soon goes rusty.
Distance and duties divide us,
But absence will not seem an evil
If it make our re-meeting
A real occasion. Come when you can:
Your room will be ready.

In Tum-Tum's reign a tin of biscuits
On the bedside table provided
For nocturnal munching. Now weapons have changed,
And the fashion of appetites:
There, for sunbathers who count their calories,
A bottle of mineral water.

Felicissima notte! May you fall at once
Into a cordial dream, assured
That whoever slept in this bed before
Was also someone we like,
That within the circle of our affection
Also you have no double.


- W. H. AUDEN

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