Friends

Weekly Challenges

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Friends

Deadline

Friendship is a beautiful thing. What does it mean to be a friend? What qualities make someone a true friend? What makes your friends special? Are you a good friend? Write a poem about what friendship means to you. (Challenge created by June, YWP) [Image by Gali on YWP]

Submissions

  • Type of Love

    Love is an open door?

    All you need is love?

    Love story?

    I know that feeling

    A bit differently

    Not quite what the song was intended for

    But I know of love

    That opens doors

    The love that is

  • sister space

    The late nights usually surrendered to sleep

    Are instead spent rolled over on our sides

    Eyelids weak and the arms that hold up our heads weaker

    As we run rivers of words out of our mouths.

  • Friendship is

    Friendship,

    Friendship is a wonderful, beautiful, amazingly quirky thing.

    It’s meeting for the first time at a random place with no expectation of getting to know anyone, until comes a simple, “Hello.”

  • In the Blink of an Eye

    It started off with two moms, two best friends,
    with two young girls with the biggest smiles.
    Making handshakes that would last a lifetime,
    listening to songs we would sing and dance to,
    sharing our laughs and giggles,

  • A Brother

    I’ve never believed in coincidences. The idea that things just happen because they happen has never fallen true in my mind. I’m more of an “everything happens for a reason” type of person.