Bonds Of Friendship

• by June E. Schlueter
• 5 years ago

As I read this poem again, I realized it's a poem that tells a story. I've never written a poem that so beautifully and simply tells a story of an event from beginning to end. I'm going to make that my next challenge. It's a beautiful story to tell - one that many of us go through when losing a friendship.

• by June E. Schlueter
• 5 years ago

By reading this poem, I was reminded of a time in the past when time and circumstances created a situation where we had to move away from all of the wonderful friends I had made and back to my home town. Long after we moved back home, I was so sad just thinking of a number of friends who had made a difference in my life and were remarkable women. Eventually, if occurred to me to write a poem conveying how I felt about each of these women, but in the last stanza, I would personalize the words to each of my friends, telling them just what they had done for me or meant to me. So each poem became personal. But it wasn't enough just to write the poem, so I sent the poem to each of those women whom I missed. Remarkably, one of them wrote back to me to tell me of her recent struggles and how my poem had made her feel strong and loved. It was a beautiful letter. Sometimes, we don't know what lies just beneath the surface of people.

• by Singing Eagle
• 7 years ago

I wanted to send a longtime friend a Valentine poem and "accidentally" came across this beautiful poem that expressed my thoughts so perfectly. We met as teenagers almost 50 years ago and were "forbidden" to be together. The years came and went, life happened. Then, all of a sudden, I somehow get a greeting card and we reconnect sharing the events and tragedies of life we endured though the years. Yet we still thought often of each other and how different life would have been. We can't change what happened in the past and how our paths are now different, but the connection was always there through the years and always will be. Thank you, Mr. Burkholder!

• by Hazel Bryan, GA
• 9 years ago

Marlene and I were friends all through elementary school. Upon going to junior high we sort of went our separate ways. She continued to live in Florida and I moved to Georgia. As God would have it...we reconnected through Facebook. THANK YOU SOCIAL MEDIA !!!!!! During the past 2 to 3 years we have rekindled our childhood friendship. We haven't seen each other face to face since about 1968 ....BUT WE ARE MAKING PLANS TO GET TOGETHER IN 2015!!!! I CAN HARDLY WAIT!!!!! :)