This prompt today, is one that could well bring some lovely poems into the world. Emotions are important in poetry, and the prompt for today sure has emotion, love?, hate, a bit of jealousy, but one hopes, with best of friends, mostly respect and much affection, bordering on love.
There’s not much more intense than the relationship you might have with friends. As kids we learn about taking turns, sharing, and these things remain into adult friendships too, but ‘big kids’ have many more emotions happening in friendships. Love is a much nuanced thing.
Is is it wrong to call our pets ‘friends’? Can humans be friends with animals? I know what I think, what do you think? And the relationship animals have with each other, is that friendship? Dogs together, is that a pack or are they friends, what things make that friendship. if you think it IS friendship? And what if you throw a cat in there too? Friends?
What are friends, and do acquaintances become friends in time, or are they tow different things. Does shared experience make people friends, and if so, why? Shared understanding, appreciation, helping each other, being successful together, all good things, or can some of those things make a friendship sour, go off? Or even end?
Lots of things there, and here’s some more – Did you have a best friend as a child? Are you both still friends? If so, what’s that like, and if not, the same … Can we be friends with our parents? Or is that relationship just not the same? Can we morph from child and parent, and then become friends with a parent when we become adults? If so, when? Nuance, nuance, nuance, I say!
Have a friendly time, thinking and writing about friendship.
(oops, in my excitement with the writing prompt, I accidentally posted it a day early!)
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 
there’s plenty here to go on with, Carolyn; I reckon if we had a 12 hour lock-in we could get a book’s worth of poems on friendships even between three or four poets. Pets certainly are friends. And books. And maybe even places
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And couldn’t that be a beautiful collection of words, words with and between friends … In olden times, Japanese people who were poets might write one tanka and another poet may write a reply …
Apparently love affairs may progress in such a manner too.
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And yes to pets, and certainly books. In my early years as a young wife, cookbooks in the kitchen were certainly good friends to me!
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