To My Best Friend

Jeannine Frost

When I think of your face

your sweet smile and charm

I can not imagine any such harm.

When I think of our friendship

to this very day

We've not known each long

Yet I yearn for you to stay.

When we're together

or talking on the phone

friendship is the feeling

and this feeling is strong.

When we're laughing or even in a fight

I'm always here for youYou always seem to clear my blue.

Because of this

it's true

I enjoy spending my time with you.

Because you're my best friend

Forever...until the end.

I really like this poem because I feel many connections with this poem. Whenever I talk to my best friends about my worries and fears, they were always a great encouragment to me. Also, when I felt really sad and lonely, they would be there to confort me and cheer me up. Without them, it would have been really difficult for me to not give up. I think this poem discribes a true friendship really well. Like the poem, I think friendship is eternal and unchanging.

Poetry Reflection

Gloomy Saturday

The grey days continuePressing gloom on my mind
like a workman clamps an instrument.
There is no hope in our world only wispy dreams of past encounters-no future,
Only the heavy, oppressing moments of now.
I've been running.Aching to dance along star-lit mountains,and you just don't get it.
I run farther away from you now, faster,and your footsteps pursue me in heavy heartbeats.
Amaze, that's what it's like.My emotions bump into the walls and bruise.Broken, I try a different direction.
What lies in wait at the end?
Freedom and another chance at loving?
Or the grim reaper?

Kit Leamy





When I read this poem, I felt a lot of connections with myself. The writer seems to feel very vunerable and hopeless in the poem. She keeps trying to run away from something, but it is tracking her down. Painful memories and future worries are draining hope and freedom from her. I sometimes feel the same way. When I have too much going on, or when past experiences bother me, I just want to give up and stop trying so hard in vain to run away from the gloomy present. People today suffer a lot of depresstion, and I think I could understand how they feel in many ways. It's like searching for something in vain, without even knowing what it is. Maybe, what everybody searches in his or her life is love and hope, to continue living with meaning. That is why I think having meanting in life is so important.