Friendship Poetry selected by Vilma Perusina
Oath Of Friendship Shang ya! I want to be your friend For ever and ever without break or decay. When the hills are all flat And the rivers are all dry, When lightens and thunders in winter, When it rains and snows in summer, When Heaven and Earth mingle - Not till then will I part from you. Anonymous, China, 1st Century B.C. |
by Victor Ramirez |
None of us are as Young
None of us are as young
as we were. So what?
Friendship never ages.
by W.H. Auden
What is a Friend? A friend never phones in the middle of the serial. A friend leaves a pie on the kitchen table, a vase of fresh flowers by the bed - and a not to welcome you home. A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. A friend is the person you turn to when your family just won't do. A friend carries a list of books you are searching for And you have hers. A friend cries with you over your little dead cat. Friends phone you at eleven at night to let you listen to their nightingale. by Pam Brown |
by Andreas Hetfeld |
A friend is a person with who I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal. that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off. and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. by Ralph Waldo Emerson |
