Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Best Friend

“One loyal friend is worth 10 thousand relatives” 

― Euripides

Famous best friends in literature and media:

Hamlet and Horatio

Celia and Rosalind

Romeo and Mercutio
Elizabeth and Charlotte

Tom and Huck
Butch and Sundance

Calvin and Hobbes

Charlotte and Wilbur

Frodo and Sam

Peter Pan and Tinkerbell

Dorothy and Toto

Pooh and Piglet

Sherlock Homes and Doc Watson

C3PO and R2D2

Thelma and Louise

Mary and Rhoda

Laverne and Shirley

Buffy and Willow

Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine and Robin

Abilene and Minny

I know you can add more names to this list, and hope you let me know who in your comments below.  But your poem?  

Midweek Motif ~ Best Friend

• Let your poem take you in a direction that doesn't name drop but is rich in experience. 
• Dare I limit you to 80 words or less?  I won't insist, but try.  When I think of the role of a best friend's presence or absence in my life, in my father's life or in teams and military service, a lot of words come.

And when I listen to this sentimental song, I feel all mushy inside.

Here are three inspiring poems:

The Arrow and the Song

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW  (88 words)

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,

             I found again in the heart of a friend.

"Perhaps this verse would please you better—Sue—(2)"

BY COLETTE LABOUFF ATKINSON  (148 words)

Before boys, Susan drove me to work, for teriyaki takeout on Manchester past Lincoln Boulevard. Inseparable, we planned winter and Easter vacations. In the stairwell, I tried to talk. She cut me off. Her echo was loud ....

(Read the rest of this prose poem HERE.) 

Tableau by Countee Cullen  (71 words)

Locked arm in arm they cross the way

The black boy and the white,

The golden splendor of the day

The sable pride of night.

From lowered blinds the dark folk stare

And here the fair folk talk,

Indignant that these two should dare

In unison to walk.

Oblivious to look and word

They pass, and see no wonder

That lightning brilliant as a sword

Should blaze the path of thunder. 

Please:  

1.      Post your poem with it best friend motif  on your site, and then link it here.

2.      Share only original and new work written for this challenge. 

3.      Leave a comment here.

4.      Honor our community by visiting and commenting on others' poems.

(Next week's Midweek Motif is Public Protest.)

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