12 beautiful friendship poems to share

In this article we have selected 12 friendship poems that stand out for their literary beauty, but also for what they are capable of transmitting. Choose the one you like the most and share it with your friends!

Being so special, friendship is a source of inspiration for various artists. Musicians, filmmakers, painters and poets bring this human bond, essential for well-being, to their works. It is a relationship where affection, trust and company prevail.

12 friendship poems

We selected 12 beautiful poems about friendship that remind us of the immense value of having friends to share life with. Texts full of deep and true feelings, written by great poets.

1. Poem of friendship, by 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. Do you delete 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.
Our footprints are erased in the sand of the river. 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».

One of the poems about friendship that invites us to reflect on how it is built over time.

2. Friends, by 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 destiny, dioscuros, pale shadows, they scare away the flies of my habits, they keep me afloat amidst so much whirlpool.

The dead speak more but in the ear, and the living are a warm hand and a roof, the sum of what is gained and what is lost. So one day in the boat of shadow, from so much absence my chest will shelter this ancient tenderness that names them.».

Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer, gives us this poetic gem with a nostalgic tinge. Here, he mentions elements and images that remind him of his friends.

3. To a great friend, by Jorge Luis Borges

«I can not change your past nor your future.
But when you need me I will be with you.
I can’t stop you from stumbling.
I can only offer you my hand so that you can hold on 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 supporting you, stimulating you and helping you if you ask me.
I cannot set limits for you within which you must act,
but I do offer you the space necessary to grow.
I cannot avoid your sufferings when some sorrow breaks your 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 most precious friends.
I am a happy person: I have more friends than I imagined.
That’s what they tell me, they show me.
It is 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.
And I also feel peace and joy when I see them and when we talk,
either in joy or in serenity.
These days I thought about my friends,
among them, you appeared».

This fragment of Borges’s poem is, at the same time, a moving letter to his friend. He leaves us a message full of tenderness and honesty: you have to love friends just the way they are.

4. Gazelle of friendship, by Carmen Díaz Margarit

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

Friendship is a ringing of bells
that invoke the aroma of bodies
in a dawn garden of heliotropes».

Carmen Díaz Margarit, writer of beautiful poems, uses very visual metaphors to define what friendship means to her.

5. Some friendships are eternal, by Pablo Neruda

«Sometimes you find in life
a special friendship:
that someone who when entering your life
It changes her completely.
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 it.
That is an eternal friendship.
When you are sad
and the world seems dark and empty,
that eternal friendship lifts your spirits
and makes that dark and empty world
suddenly appear bright and full.
Your eternal friendship helps you
in difficult, sad moments,
and great confusion.
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 takes you by the hand
and tells you that everything will be fine.
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,
since an eternal friendship has no end».

With this text, the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda reminds us what an eternal friend brings us: company, hope, light.

6. To my friends, by Alberto Cortez

«To my friends I owe the tenderness
and the words of encouragement and the hug,
sharing the bill with all of them
that presents life to us step by step.
I owe my friends patience
to tolerate my sharpest thorns,
outbursts of humor, negligence
the vanities, the fears and the doubts.
A fragile paper boat
sometimes it seems like friendship,
but you can never beat him
the most violent storm.
Because that paper boat
has clinging to his rudder,
for captain and helmsman.
a heart!
I owe my friends some anger
that unintentionally disturbed our harmony,
we all know that it cannot be a sin
to sometimes argue over trifles.
I will bequeath to my friends when I die
my devotion in a guitar chord,
and among the forgotten verses of a poem
my poor incorrigible cicada soul.
My friend, if this song is 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 their souls.”

A perfect poem if what you are looking for is thank you for your dedication, patience and unconditionality of your friends.

7. Friendship, by Carlos Castro Saavedra

«Friendship is the same as a hand that supports its fatigue in another hand and feels that the fatigue is mitigated and the path becomes more human. The sincere friend is the clear and elemental brother like the ear, like the bread, like the sun, like the ant that confuses honey with summer.
Great wealth, sweet company is that of the being that arrives with the day and clarifies our interior nights. “A source of coexistence, of tenderness, is the friendship that grows and matures in the midst of joys and pains.”

The Colombian poet gives us this beautiful text, where he transmits the richness of friendship.

8. I will not die completely, my friend, by Rodolfo Tallón

«I will not die completely, my friend,
as long as my memory lives in your soul.

A verse, a word, a smile,
They will tell you clearly that I have not died.

I will return with the silent afternoons,
with the star that shines for you,
with the breeze that is born between the leaves,
with the fountain that dreams in the garden.

I will return to the piano that sobs
Chopin’s nocturnal scales;
with the slow agony of things
who don’t know how to die.

With everything romantic, that immolates
this cruel world that destroys me.

I will be by your side when you are alone,
like another shadow next to your shadow.

True friends are those who They remain in the soul and memory despite death, time and distance.One of the most touching poems about friendship!

9. Let’s go together, 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 rings sound
his lesson as a bell.

To enjoy tomorrow
we 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 dear deaths
they are writing the story
with you I can and with me I want
Let’s go together mate.”

Mario Benedetti, great Uruguayan writer, stands out the unconditional support that characterizes true friendship.

10. Friends who forever left us, by Edgar Allan Poe

«Friends who forever left us,
dear friends forever gone,
out of Time and out of Space.

For the soul nourished by sorrows,
for the broken heart, perhaps.

A short poem that talks about the echo that honest friendships leave, regardless of time and space.

11. Friendship like a flower, anonymous

«Friendship is like a rose.
Its color is so beautiful,
its texture so delicate,
and its perfume so persistent,
If you don’t take care of her…

“It withers.”

This beautiful poem warns us of something important: that which is neglected, withers. Bonds require care and attention to sustain.

12. Brothers and friends, by Delia Arjona

«Friends are brothers
that we choose,
those who offer you their hand,
when you find yourself lost.

They are the doors that open to you
and the roads join together,
when you are needing
his arms are extended.

Soft rays of sunshine,
that give you warmth and shelter.

Love grows stronger,
when you have a friend!

Another of the poems about friendship that highlights the support that a friend offers without expecting anything in return.

Poems about friendship that touch the heart

Through poetry, authors express ideas and feelings to us in a beautiful and profound way. Letting yourself go through these texts is very easy if we share life with good friends. Don’t miss the opportunity to tell special people how much you love them. Surprise them with one of these poems!

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