True Friendship
To share the joy of true friends is grand
Remembering our past we spent on farm
Underneath the tree we would both stand
Each day we’d walk briskly arm in arm
Friendship lasting years as we both grew
Reaching an age of growing close as one
I see a side of you I never knew
Each time we touch it’s like my heart has spun
New feelings grow within my soul for you
Deny them not for they are real to me
Somehow a change has taken place it’s true
How much we’ve grown as friends as you will see.
Is this the start of a brand new life ahead
Perhaps it’s just to be as friends instead.
Joan Benecke August 18th 2008
Author notes
was just dreaming.
I wanted to add another poem
as I've been busy writing haiku's
saw this picture and liked it
so I let it take me where it wanted to go.
In a list
A contest entry
- CONTEST #35 FOR HUGH WYLES FAVORITES ONLY by huguenauties.
750 points, ended August 23, 2008, 15 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Love and friendship are two sides of a coin!
Is this the start of a brand new life ahead
Perhaps it’s just to be as friends instead." It is the divine wish, perhaps, 'it is the start of a brand new life'A friend turns to be a best lover for life. Fine thoughts you penned dear friend.
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Good that your instincts led you to the keys
to create and post this piece. It carries those
lingering hopes, yet doubts, that many have
experienced. It indeed deserves a glittering cup!
M-C -
Oh crud, I never did comment on this. I read it I know. My mind has been rather absent lately.
Sadly the poem hits home for me, the last line especially.
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I'll trade you my bronze, a half-eaten candy bar and a stale Moxie for your silver, deal?
Congrats. 
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NUH UHH Yem, I'll keep my Silver.
I am sooo happy, but I'll have a drink of Moxie 
with you.
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Dear Joan,
CONGRATULATIONS on winning SILVER in my contest with your delightful poem!
Love,
Maureen
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Dear AJ, A very lovely Acrostic, I can only agree with what the others have said. Bravo.
I've know it to happen that childhood friends grow up and fall in love to marry and share happy times together.
Love Hine
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Thank you Hine.
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Dear Bea,
Thankyou for creating this second entry in our contest #35.
What can I add to the comments already made which say it all?
Tender, reflective, sentimental, tentative and, as a sonnet one hardly realises that it is also acrostic. It is also faithful to the picture that inspied it. Bravo!
Good luck in the contest.
Applause, love and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)
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Thankyou my dear friend.
Love Bea
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Dear Joan,
You are so good at writing acrostics! For me, a great acrostic is a poem like this that I read without realizing that's what it is!
I like where the picture took you..wondering if a boy and girl who start out as friends progress to another level in their relationship or stay forever friends. Very nicely done!
Love,
Maureen
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Thank you my sweet Soul/Sister.
Love Joan
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This is lovely, Joan, a walk through memories to a sweet conclusion. A very nice acrostic sonnet too!
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Thank you my dear Sweetpea.
Love Joan
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A lovely sentimental poem of friendship, Joan.
Good luck in the contest
Dee
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Thanks Dee.
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The words reach out
in bold rememberance,
then pull back, tentatively,
shyly, as love itself
wishes acknowledgement.
A tender story.
M-C
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Thanks M-C
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