Friendship is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful gifts that have been given to us. We choose the friends who will accompany us throughout our life and who will make our journey more intense, rich and pleasant.
But we don't always realize how lucky we are. In fact, as often happens, we take for granted things that are not taken for granted at all: this is why it is essential to remind ourselves how precious is the gift of friendship and address phrases of affection and gratitude to the people we have at our side.
We can also do this by borrowing beautiful words of famous writers and poetesses of the past who have given us sweet and unforgettable poems.
Intense verses full of pathos to celebrate what has always been considered one of the noblest and most important sentiments, almost on a par with love. That's right, because after all, friendship is nothing more than a eternal love between kindred souls and linked by a special relationship.
So here are the 20 most beautiful poems about friendship to celebrate this feeling and to dedicate words full of affection and esteem to the friends we have next to us and who every day help us to make our life more beautiful and light.
Along with the most intense and poetic lines and phrases, there are also poems for children, like the famous poetry-nursery rhyme by Gianni Rodari which helps to understand from an early age how special this thing called friendship is.
1. Friendship, Pam Brown
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion,
the simple knowledge of friendship
makes it possible to resist,
even if the friend does not have the power to help us.
It is enough that it exists.
Friendship is not diminished by distance or time,
from imprisonment or war,
from suffering or silence.
It is in these things that it takes its deepest roots.
It is from these things that it flourishes….
2. The memory of a friendDavid Maria Turoldo
I think nothing else comforts us so much,
as much as the memory of a friend,
the joy of his confidence
or the immense relief of having confided in him
with absolute tranquility:
precisely because he is a friend.
Comfort the desire to see him again if far away,
to evoke it to feel it close,
almost to hear his voice
and continue unfinished talks.
3. My friend, Emily Hearn
My friend is like bark
around the tree,
it warms me like the sun
on a winter day,
it refreshes me like water
on a hot afternoon,
his voice is lively like
the song of a bird in spring,
he is my friend,
and I his.
4. Man, take away what you want, Pablo Neruda
Man, take away what you want,
sink your gaze into the corners,
and if you want I will give you my whole soul
with its white avenues and its songs.
5. FriendshipJorge Luis Borges
I can't give you solutions
for all life problems
I have no answers for your doubts or fears,
but I can listen to them and share them with you
I can't change your past either
nor your future
But when I need it I'll be close to you
I can't help you from falling,
I can only offer you my hand
so that it supports you and you do not fall
Your happiness, your success and your triumph
they are not mine
But I sincerely rejoice when I see you happy
I don't judge the decisions you make in life
I just lean on you to stimulate you
and help you if you ask me
I can't draw limits
within which you have to move,
But I can offer you the space
necessary to grow
I cannot avoid your suffering,
when some pain touches your heart
But I can cry with you and pick up the pieces to put it back together again.
I cannot tell you what you are or what you must be
I can only want you as you are
and be your friend.
6. The splendor of friendship, Ralph Waldo Emerson
The splendor of friendship
it is not the outstretched hand
nor the gentle smile
nor the joy of the company:
it is the spiritual inspiration when we discover
that someone believes in us
and is willing to trust us.
7. If I can keep a heart from breaking, Emily Dickinson
If I can prevent it
to a heart to break
I will not have lived in vain.
If I relieve the pain of a lifetime
or I will alleviate a pain
or I'll help a fallen robin
to re-enter the nest
I will not have lived in vain!
Today is far from childhood
but up and down the hills
I hold his hand tighter
that shortens all distances!
The feet of those walking home
go with lighter sandals!
8. Don't hide the secret of your heart, Rabrindranath Tagore
Don't hide
the secret of your heart,
my friend!
Tell me, just me,
in confidence.
You who smile so kindly,
tell me slowly,
my heart will listen to it,
not my ears.
The night is deep,
the silent house,
the nests of birds
they are silent in their sleep.
Reveal me in hesitant tears,
between trembling smiles,
between pain and sweet shame,
the secret of your heart.
9. Have a friend, Gyo Fujikawa
It is so beautiful when you are friends,
playing together,
feel happy.
It's nice to talk to my friend
have a thousand secrets to tell
and laugh together laugh a lot
the reasons to laugh are never lacking.
Of course, sometimes it can happen
to find themselves fighting
and in those moments say to each other: Goodbye,
you are no longer my friend!
But soon you go to hug him
without him you just don't know how to be.
And still happy and happy by the hand
true friends walk together.
10. AmiciGianni Rodari
Says a proverb from days gone by
“Better alone than badly accompanied”.
I know a much more beautiful one:
"In company you go far away".
A proverb says, who knows why:
“Whoever does it alone makes for three”.
From this ear I do not hear:
"Whoever has a hundred friends makes a hundred!".
A proverb now has to be changed:
“Those who are alone cannot make mistakes!”.
This, I say, is a lie:
“If there are many of us, it's fun!”.
11. A friend, Khalil Gibran
What is a friend to you,
Why you have to look for it
To kill time?
Always look for it to live the time.
In fact, it must fill your needs,
not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship
There are laughter,
And sharing joyful moments.
Because in the dew
of the little things
The heart finds its morning
And it refreshes itself.
12. I believe in you, friendElena Oshiro
I believe in your smile
open window in your being.
I believe in your look,
mirror of your honesty.
I believe in your hand,
always striving to give.
I believe in your embrace,
sincere welcome of your heart.
I believe in your word,
expression of what you love and hope for.
I believe in you, friend
so, simply,
in the eloquence of silence.
13. Neither he nor me, Cecilia Casanova
Nor him
nor me
we realized
that our friendship was full
of curves.
Straighten it
it would have been sacrilege.
14. Love and friendship, Emily Brontë
Love is like a rosacanina,
friendship is a holly.
Holly is brown when the rose is in bud
but which of the two will green longer?
The wild rose is sweet in spring,
its flowers perfume the summer,
but wait for winter to reappear
and who will praise the beauty of the bramble?
Disdain the fatuous crown of roses
and dressed in shiny holly,
because December that touches your forehead
you still leave a green wreath.
15. Questions asked of myselfWislawa Szymborska
What is the content of the smile
and a handshake?
In welcoming
you are never far away
as it is sometimes far away
man from man
when it gives a hostile judgment
at first sight?
Every human fate
open like a book
looking for emotion
not in its characters,
not in the edition?
With certainty everything,
do you grab some people?
Your evasive answer,
insincere,
a joke from nothing-
have you calculated the damages?
Unfulfilled friendships,
frozen worlds.
You know friendship goes
concreated like love?
There are those who have not kept up
in this hard toil.
And in the mistakes of friends
wasn't there your fault?
Some have complained and advised.
How many tears shed
before you brought help?
Co-responsible
of the happiness of millennia-
maybe you missed it
the single minute
the tear, the grimace on the face?
You never dodge
other people's fatigue?
The glass was on the table
and no one has noticed,
until it fell
for a distracted gesture.
But it's all that simple
in relations between people?
16. Don't walk in front of meAlbert Camus
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow you.
Don't walk behind me, I don't know where to lead you.
Walk by my side and we will always be friends.
17. Men are meant to be understood, Paul Éluard
Men are meant to be understood
to understand each other loving each other
they have children who will be fathers of men
they have children without a home without a homeland
who will reinvent homes
who will reinvent men
and nature and homeland
that of all men
that of all time.
18. Sonnet 104, William Shakespeare
For me, my friend,
you will never be old,
when were you the first time I met your gaze,
such today your beauty appears;
three cold winters shook the pride of three summers from the trees,
three graceful springs withered into yellow autumns I have seen in the succession of the seasons,
three fragrant open them burned in the fire of three June since I saw you in bloom, young as now.
But beauty is like the shadow on the sundial that furtively advances without showing its pace;
so your freshness, which to me always seems firm,
has a movement that my eye does not perceive:
if you fear this, know, listening posterity:
before your advent the summer of beauty had already died.
19. I grow a white rose, José Marti)
I grow a white rose
in June as in January
for the sincere friend
who holds out his frank hand to me.
And for the cruel one who tears me up
the heart with which I live,
neither thistle nor nettle do I cultivate;
I cultivate the white rose.
20. Anonymous
I love you not only for who you are,
but for who I am when I'm with you.
I love you not only for what you have done with yourself,
but for what you are doing with me.
I love you because you did more than you did
any faith to make me better,
and more than any fate has done to make me happy.
You did it without a touch, without a word, without a nod.
You did it by being yourself.
Perhaps, after all, this means being a friend.
