Friendship is the truest of all the human relationships. We all need friends with whom we can share our innermost feelings and desires, with whom we can hangout or catch a movie. We crave to spend most of our time with our friends. We know that they will cheer with us for our favorite football team as well as consol us at the moments of loses. Hence, friends are our most pride possessions. No wonder, therefore, that poems will be written on friends and friendships.
At some point of our life we all might have written friendship poems to express our feelings to our friends and also to impress him/her and we know that to write a friendship poem you don’t have to be a renowned poet. But, a little help is always welcome when you fall short of words in writing friendship poems.
Love poems are often more intense than friendship poems since they are the results of a much stronger and extreme emotion. Friendship poems on the other hand are much subtler and subdued in emotion.
Friendship poems can be silly and whimsical but love poems are mostly written with passion, which exerts enough force to make the other person realize your true feelings.
Many of the great poets have also used friendships as metaphors to relate to other things of importance. To understand it better you can refer to the poem "The Soul Unto Itself" written by Emily Dickinson.
Here she had referred to her inner soul as her friend. But not necessarily you have to use friendship only as a metaphor. Rather, it can also be written simply to ruminate a precious relation between two people. Following is one such example of a friendship poem written by Jean Kyler McManus. You can now search online to find more such friendship poems from which you can draw inspiration to write one of your own. You can check out the following collection of friendship poems for your reference.
