I don’t believe I could have helped with the transition I did not realize that you were fading from sight I loved my friend.” Overnight by John Yau I love the beautiful simplicity of this poem. The next set of poems are about friends who are lost to death or time. I included this one since I feel it speaks to friendship with women.Ī poem about the importance of friendship with guests. Here are two poems about friends with people we don’t know, our fellow humankind. (Read more at the link) Friends to the World Of November, or the forceful light of summer. Walks over to your house in the bashful light This poem reminds me of my childhood summers in Chicago. (Read more at the link) The Friend By Matt Hart (Read more at the link) Your Catfish Friend by Richard BrautiganĪ charming poem about a person contemplating being a catfish in a pond. That I could be this excellence at this time (Read more at the link) To all my friends by May Yang I love the silliness of Shel Silverstein and all of his poems.Īnd everyone wins” A poision tree by William BlakeĪlso, a list of friendship poems would be remiss without Winnie the Pooh. This video is a beautiful letter to a friend about mental illness. A Love Letter to My Best Friend by Andrew Warner Having a Coke with You could be interpreted as romantic love but I always read it as a Sharing a Coke with You, Friend. Partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt…” Some friendship poems are longer than others, so I included the first few lines but you’ll have to go to the link to read the rest of the poem. This list is by no means exhaustive it’s a list of poems that I liked that brought out different aspects of friendship. These poems come from a variety of eras and viewpoints and include themes of friends lost, friends to the world, and also bad friends. I’ve compiled a list of 20 friendship poems in honor of those people who keep the loneliness away. However, there are a plethora of poems about family members so I decided to focus on the harder task: poems about friendship. In contrast, obesity raises the chance of dying before the age of 70 by around 30 per cent.”įriends and family are important to our wellbeing. They discovered that lonely people had a 50 per cent increased risk of early death, compared to those with good social connections. looked at 218 studies into the health effects of social isolation and loneliness involving nearly four million people. ![]() ![]() Back in 2017, the Telegraph UK reported, “Researchers in the U.S. Studies have shown that loneliness can be detrimental to health. Find out more on her website or follow her on Twitter All posts by Elisa Shoenberger She also plays alto saxophone and occasionally stiltwalks. When she's not writing about reading, she's reading and adventuring to find cool new art. ![]() She's also written articles for Huffington Post, Boston Globe, WIRED, Slate, and many other publications. She also writes regularly for Murder & Mayhem and Library Journal. She loves writing about all aspects of books from author interviews, antiquarian books, archives, and everything in between. Poems by Tiffany Atkinson, John Burnside, Katie Cleverley, Vicki Feaver, Joan Johnston, Katerina de Jong / Anastasia Matveeva / Minnah Rashid, Mohja Kahf, Derek Mahon, Liz Soar and Andrew Waterhouse.ĭonation to Friends of the Elderly.Elisa Shoenberger has been building a library since she was 13. Or as Andrew Waterhouse says so touchingly, it’s simply about:įrom ‘Climbing my Grandfather’ by Andrew Waterhouse Joan Johnston’s tiny poem ‘Safe’ captures the feelings of a child tucked up in bed while a grandmother busies herself downstairs in the kitchen. There’s a poem in three languages about a joyful reunion with a grandparent arriving from overseas and another in which a Muslim grandmother raises eyebrows in a posh department store by washing her feet in the sink in the ladies’ room.īut the abiding spirit of the selection is the sense of safety and comfort we feel in the company of a beloved grandparent. ![]() The pupils were diligent editors and their choices reflect the multicultural world in which they are growing up. This title from Candlestick Press is something of a departure: all the poems have been chosen by pupils at Headington School and the selection includes contributions written by the students themselves and by their English teacher, Liz Soar. Selected and Introduced by Liz Soar and Pupils of Headington School, Oxford Various Authors
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