Friends by E.Jennings

I fear its very wrong of me
And yet I must admit
When someone offers friendship
I want the whole of it
I don't want everybody else
To share my friends with me.
At least, I want one special one
Who, indisputably,
Likes me much more than all the rest
Who's always on my side
Who never cares what others say
Who lets me come and hide
Within his shadow, in his house-
It doesn't matter where-
Who lets me simply be myself
Who's always, always there.

Elizabeth Jennings

Comments: I am going to do this extraordinary poem tomorrow which is on the 4th of June 2010, in my ESB(International) Exam at the level of Junior Grade 2. I am not sure if I will succeed in acheiving a distinction but I'm confident. I chose this poem as it is is easy to be memorized and has the real defenition of the word "Friendship"

Elango Praveen
Keming Primary School
Singapore

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Ramayana: Second longest poem on Earth

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