10 Examples of Friendship Poems

The Friendship poems are those poems that deal with this relationship of affection, companionship and trust between people. Friendship is a recurring theme in poetry since ancient times. For instance:

Lfriendship 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.

Do you erase 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 forgetfulness and memory:

This moment is an island fought by incessant time.

(Octavio Paz)

The poems They are literary compositions that belong to the genre of poetry and that can be written in prose but that, generally, are composed of verses and stanzas (a set of verses). For instance:

Cultivate a white rose (verse 1)
in June like January (verse 2)
For the honest friend(verse 3)
who gives me his frank hand. (verse 4)

(Ruben Dario)

Friendship poems do not address this issue using ordinary language, but do so creatively and including different literary resources (such as the rhyme waves rhetorical figures) to produce an aesthetic and beautiful composition.

Examples of friendship poems

1. "Friendship throughout", by Jaime Gil de Biedma

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

A destination deftly drove
the hours, and the company sprouted.
The nights came. To the love of them
we lit up words,
the words that we then abandon
to go up to more
we started to be the companions
who are known
above the voice or the sign.

Now yes. They can rise
the gentle words
-those who no longer say things-,
float slightly in the air;
because we are locked
in the world, sarmentosos
of accumulated history,
and there is the company that we are full,
leafy with presences.
Behind each other
watch 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 over mine,
and even though I'm quiet I thank you,
because there is peace in the bodies and in us.
I want to tell you how we all brought
our lives here to tell.
Long to each other
in the corner we talk, so many months!
that we do not know well, and in memory
joy equals sadness.
For us, the pain is cute.

Oh, the time! Everything is understood.

This poem represents the importance of dialogue and companionship in friendship. In addition, it refers to the fact that a good friendship is one that is cultivated over the years.

1. "Friendship", by Carlos Castro Saavedra

Friendship is the same as a hand
that in another hand supports his fatigue
and he feels that the fatigue is mitigated
and the way becomes more humane.

The sincere friend is the brother
clear and elemental like the spike,
like bread, like the sun, like the ant
that mistakes honey for summer.

Great wealth, sweet company
is that of the being that arrives 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 pains.

This poem refers to those things that are essential in any friendship relationship: sincerity, sharing, understanding, companionship and affection.

1. "A Lope de Vega Carpio", by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Although the persecution
the wise man fears envy,
do not receive from the wrong,
which is to be approval.
The ones who boast the most are,
Lope, who you envy,
and in his presumption you will see
what your glories deserve;
Well, the ones that make you bigger
They are the ones who envy you the most.

This poem was written by one of the best writers of the Spanish Golden Age to his friend and poet.

1. "Friend", by Pablo Neruda

Friend, take what you want,
your gaze penetrates the corners
and if you wish, I give you my whole soul
with its white avenues and its songs.
Friend -with the afternoon make it go away
This useless old desire to win.

Drink from my pitcher if you are thirsty.
Friend -with the afternoon make it go away
this wish of mine that the whole rosebush
belongs to me -,
Friend if you are hungry eat my bread.
Everything, my friend, I have done for you.

All this that without looking you will see in my naked room:
all this that rises up the right walls
-like my heart- always looking for height.
You smile at yourself friend. Does matters!

No one knows how to deliver
what is hidden inside,
but I give you my soul, amphora of soft honeys,
and I give it all to you.
Except that one I remember.
That in my inheritance that lost love empties,
it is a white rose, which opens in silence.

This poem is about the importance of sharing, sincerity and affection.

1. "To my friends", by Alberto Cortez

I owe my friends the tenderness
and the words of encouragement and hug,
sharing the invoice with all of them
that presents us with life step by step.

I owe my friends my patience
to tolerate my sharpest thorns,
outbursts of humor, negligence
the vanities, the fears and the doubts.

A fragile paper ship
sometimes it seems friendship,
but it can never with him
the most violent storm.
Because that paper boat
he's got hold of the helm of him,
by captain and helmsman.
a heart!

I owe my friends some anger
that inadvertently disturbed our harmony,
we all know that it cannot be sin
arguing about nonsense sometime.

I will bequeath to my friends when I die
my devotion on a guitar chord,
and among the forgotten verses of a poem
my poor incorrigible cicada soul.

My friend if this couplet like the wind
wherever you want to listen to it, it demands you,
you will be plural because the feeling demands it
when friends are in the soul.

Although it is the lyrics of a tango (an Argentine musical style), this text can be considered as a friendship poem as it highlights the most important characteristics of this bond.

1. "Sonnet XIV", by Francisco de Aldana

Who can without a woe! of the sent soul,
Without tears pour from hundred to hundred,
Without so much breath that the wind can
The contrasting waves of the angry sea,

Who can, I say, oh miserable fate!
Without giving of himself such a high feeling,
The doubts declare of that torment
That oppress our souls has not doubted?

Together cry, my Frónimo, the absence
Of my sun and your light, it already suits us
More than a soul of infernal weight afflicted,

What if it consists of just the presence,
Our living, of those who have us without it,
Absent, who will know what life is?

The author wrote this poem to his friend, Frónimo, and highlights the sadness caused by the fact that a friend is absent.

1. Fragment of “Los amigos”, by Julio Cortázar

Lightly brothers of destiny,
Dioscuri, pale shadows, they scare me
the flies of habits, they hold me
keep afloat in the midst of the whirlwind.

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

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

This poem refers to the importance of being present in difficult moments and the love that friendship generates.

1. "Let's go together partner", by Mario Benedetti

With you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate

partner reveals you
the same luck as me
you promised and i promised
light this candle

with you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate

death kills and listens
life comes later
the unit that serves is
the one that unites us in the fight

with you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate

the story plays sonorous
the lesson of him as a bell
to enjoy tomorrow
you have to fight now

with you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate

we are no longer innocent
neither in the bad nor in the good
each one in his work
because in this there are no substitutes

with you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate

some sing victory
because the people pay lives
but those deaths dear
they are writing the story

with you I can and with me I want
let's go together mate.

This poem is about friendship, but in this case the relationship is sustained by political commitment, in addition to being sustained by companionship and trust.

1. "Gazelle of friendship", by Carmen Díaz Margarit

Friendship is a flurry of luminous fish,
and it drags you
towards a happy ocean of butterflies.

Friendship is a wail of bells
that invoke the scent of bodies
in a dawn garden of heliotropes.

This short poem uses figurative language to talk about friendship. It refers to the feelings that friendship generates, such as happiness.

1. "Sonnet to the author Pedro de Padilla", by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Since of the blind god you have sung
good and evil, sweet strength and art,
in the first and the second part,
where is love at all marked,

now with rested breath
and with your virtue that distributes in you
the sky, you sing us of the hard Mars
the fierce weapons and the surplus courage.

New rich miners are discovered
of your wits in the famous mine
that satisfy the highest desire;

and, by giving less than the more they cover up,
to this less what is more inclines
of the good that Apollo and Minerva do.

This poem does not talk about friendship in general, but the author congratulates his poet friend for his talent and ingenuity.

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