This was written to thank a friend on a forum of Passions in Poetry for listening, supporting me, cheering me up, and basically, just being there for me during a very trying time in my life. I wanted to do something special to thank him, and, since we're both poets, I thought a poem would be a good way to say, "Thank-you."

This poem originally was published in Friendship Poems

A Simple Thank-You, My Friend
Into the dim lit, bare walls of my world,
You entered, bringing light and life to me,
The vivid colors, painted with a swirl
Of wit and charm, of personality,
With tender care, you added comfort, warmth,
And images that line the now bright walls.
I look upon them fondly, bringing forth
A thankfulness that you walk in these halls
With me; our friendship has become a part
Of my world now; it has its special place,
Within my being, life, and in my heart,
Your name hangs right beside your smiling face.
Rememb'ring just how drab these walls had been,
I have to thank you for the light, my friend.
162 Visitor Comments (from the Voting form)
  • senbagam
    very nice.
  • lora
    this poem was really touching you should write more pomes
  • reynu
    this poem touched me
  • Lisa
    it is a good poet and i wish i could write poets. i have a best friend who is always there when i need her
  • Hevinnah
    I LOVE IT! GUYZ!
  • Debbie
    This poem brought a tear to my eye's. It's so Beautiful! Thank You for Sharing. Debbie.
  • tay-tay
    this is so cute i sent it to my bff andever and ever and ever and ever.
  • Diana
    I found the words I wanted to share with my best friend. I think it is awesome. Diana
  • Victoria
    I love your Poem
  • jamal
    the poem is good i like it
  • Roselaure
    AS I was reading this poem, I couldn't hold back my tears. This poem says so much. really really loved it.
  • Donna
    This poem mede me think of how much me best friend chubbs did for me and i never really thanked her like i should have. now i have that chance through this poem. thank you
  • Nina
    " this poem was helpful to me"
  • jojo
    this poem touched my heart bcuz it reminded me of a very good friend of mine we meet on the first day of year 7 we both turned up an hour b4 we should as we was worrying our selves about a new start we both knew we had each other and even tho we've left school now we're still the best of friends i want to say thank you for this friendship i will always remember you in my heart trust if your friend is as good as mine you don't want to lose him/her love jojo (thinking of you always ryan and thanks for a gr8 friendship)
  • Tansy
    This was an awesome poem!
  • agustin
    Very good, it touches me so deeply.
  • whella
    it so nice i really like it. u
  • benison
    i like this poem bcoz it remind me of those who help me bfore. keeep goin.
  • heather
    i loved the poem. It was a very good poem to write to a ver good freind.
  • tony
    I love this poem very much. it's like just how i feel for alot of peeps that i have been knowing for some time . Great work , Happy thanksgiving !
  • Brianna
    i love this poem it is very touching and true it is so easy to understand and is one of the best i have come across
  • sarah
    i really liked that the words are so true!
  • Kirstin
    Very nice, I can relate which is really cool.
  • stacy
    this poem ish reallie nice. and it reallie touch moi heart. and i'll invite all moi good friends toi come and read. i love dis poem.
  • jane
    My special friend has been with me throughout many traumatic experiences in my life & your poem says all i wanted to say. Thank you for writing such a beautiful poem.
  • keerthi
    excellent,, jus the right poem for my friend
  • Kathy
    Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your poem and sent it to one of my church friends. She lost her husband earlier this year and I lost mine 2 years ago, so we find special poems and jokes to send to each other.
  • Aryan
    Good poem,desribed his feelings in a good simole way.
  • IRENE
    this is a cool poem hope you dont mind me using this an example for my class to see for my assignment. we have to make all different peoms and find some that kinda go with them add me in my e-mail and lets talk about. stuff. kk. cya!
  • Nica
    This poem was really heart-touchy! cause I wish I do whatever this poem tels cause I really want to thank my friends but I couldn't make it. But you encourage me. to thank the two closest friends in my whole life I'm very proud to tell the whole world that it's "ELIZA & DANICA".
  • Nasreddeen
    A simple thank you;an appreciation goes along way to lift us in life. This is a beautiful poem. i like it.
  • Jillian
    This poem is very touching to me. I have a friend that is moving away, and I guess reality has hit and now its getting to me more and more as the days get closer. So, I sent this poem to her to just let her know how much she has impacted my life and how she will be dearly missed! What a very sweet poem that sums pretty much everything up in very few words!
  • Demetria
    i so this peom
  • yasmin
    thiz poem iz tite
  • justin
    id just made some new friends and this poem really touched me
  • MARIE
    Loved it very much. sent it to a friend. Keep up the wonderful work you are talented. Marie in MA
  • Patricia
    I really enjoyed reading your poems. Some of them are heart warming, but true. I was really touched by this poem.
  • Brenda
    Not given myself the credit I deserve, I have always taken the back seat in lfe. It took a very special friend to light my way. You don't find SPECIAL friends like this every day.
  • kelsey
    i loved it!
  • avi
    this nice poem!i like it!
  • brooke
    What your doin in this poem. how your thanking your friend. i think thats great, b/c not alot of pple do that anymore. we now these days take friends for advantage. we need to show our friends that were thankful. not just buying them expensive things. tell them how you feel, because you never know one day you can lose them just like that. they could die on you anytime
  • sue
    makes me feel good happy thanks to you
  • elpida
    hey it was great i sent it to my best friend!WOW.
  • angeline
    i like your it,very. it touches me so much.
  • Christina
    I think this poem is great! It related to me and my best friend and I think it can relate to a lot of other friendships
  • devika
    hi this poem is ausumn. it is very touching even the persons who are enemies of each other will become friends after reading this poem dats all about this poem. devika
  • farshana
    im so impressed!
  • Diana
    very nice
  • Jackie
    I really liked this poem. I'm making a small scrapbook for a dear friend of mine. This has touched me so, that I decided to include it in it. Thankyou sooo very much.
  • Michaella
    i loved this poem it really resembled how my best friend saved me from the walls of depression and i am a better person because of her and i can not thank her enough for what she did. im not great at poetry but this poem really truly reflects what happened. Thank you also for putting into words so other people and her can understand what she did for me
  • Kaylie
    i love this poem
  • punni
    The poem is great. It truely defines a true friend
  • john
    this is a great and best poem 4 my best friend named kristine
  • Amy
    This poem really touched me.
  • maria
    this poem is so touching
  • hazel
    i lyk d poem
  • Amy
    ok well done
  • Lorena
    It made me think about God.
  • hailee
    that poem is the best poem i ever heard. it really touched me thank you you made me relize that poems are just 4 winning but 4 caring
  • sharna
    this was a lovley poem and it reminded me of one of my beloved friends and i give this poem a 10 because it is speacial to me and is very real. thank you and keep up the beautiful poem writing
  • Tori
    This poem has indeed toutched me like no other. Whoever wrote this, you have incredable talent, and apparently a great friend. I hope the best for you and hope you contunue to write. God Bless
  • Petra B.
    This is a wonderful poem and says exactly how I feel for my family and friends who saw me through breast cancer treatment.
  • rhanny
    i was moved by the poem . it is really striking!
  • Tondra
    I voted for this poem because someone has entered my life in my time of lonliness and depression. I'm married and it's not going well at all. I haven't had anyone to talk to, to spend time with, or just put a smile on my face. It feels good to be able to laugh and smile once again and I owe it to this new friend. Thanks for the poem, it had all the right words and expressed everything that I am feeling right now.
  • Rissa
    Great poem. so relevant and just what I needed to tell a friend who has been there for me. Thank you.
  • akansha
    an excellent poem.
  • Harold
    GoOd PoEm!
  • Evangeline Tan
    it really touches me with the phrases the author uses and how precious friendship is.
  • Jeannette
    I really like this poem because I can assimilated with the way I feel about my best friend Daisy.
  • joanne
    this poem impresses
  • Lucas
    I think this poem explained really well on how good friends can help you through bad times and how they can give a new and better meaning to a borind and dull life just because they are ther to put a smile on your face
  • anurag
    i like this type poem. poem is myalone friend.
  • Erikson
    It is good. As I read it, I remembered my friend.
  • Jennifer
    this poem let me now that friends are foreverand that thay will all was help you out .
  • Tam
    This is what I wanted to say to two of my most special friends. One of them just moved away, taking her sweet little baby with her, and the other lives in Germany. Each of them, in her own way, painted my life. They each worked, separately, to draw me out of my little hermit cave, my self-imposed prison, the gilded cage of my own choosing. Each has forced me to *participate* in life, rather than lying and saying I am perfectly content to spend my entire time on this earth *observing* it. Thank you for saying what I could not.
  • Kristie
    I love the way this poem creates a metaphore between friendship and painting bare walls. I am an artist and I found this poem perfect to send to a close friend. Thanks!
  • ROBYN
    YOUR POEM IS A PERFECT WAY OF TELLING YOUR FRIEND HOW GLAD YOU ARE TO HAVE THEM AND I ENJOYED READING IT. THANKS !
  • Jennifer
    This is a beautiful poem that I will share with my students. Thank you for sharing it with others!
  • Noemi
    This poem is great especially for some one who is always there to lend a hand no matter what
  • Ramprasad
    it was nice and i hope you sen,t me every day all the very best, take care
  • chantelle
    this was very sweet, that i actually wrote it inside my step-fathers card. Thank you for posting this. I am a poem lover & I also write them also! thank you, i would give you 8-10. very good! and probably a lot better than mine!
  • Beatriz
    this poem is very nice. it touches my heart. well what can i say. who ever wrote it might have a nice heart. i love it!
  • samaila
    wow. from ur poem u're a friend not to loss
  • Candra
    that was a very touchin poem
  • Christian
    A very special friend of mine gave me this poem to express how she feels - it touched me very much - it is a wonderful poem! Thanks for writing it!
  • hot chick
    I think it is just like my life! WOW!
  • Aolany
    This is a peom that can be dedicated to a special friend. Your friend must be a true friend. Friends like that person are hard to find in this world. This poem will mean a lot to that friend, for me personally, I would like to be written something like this that comes from the heart. This definitly is the best poem a friend could ever recieve.
  • whea
    OH! I LOVED THE POEM SO MUCH AND I APPRECIATE IT . IM TOUCHED OF THIS POEM SO MORE POWER ON YOU MORE POEMS TO MAKE GOD BLESS YOU
  • Michaela
    I thought your poem was awesome. I really liked it. It touched my heart
  • lauren
    this poem is truely magnificent
  • Arjun
    That's a really good job done by the author. it's a gerat way to show "Dolly Arya" (my best fiend) how i feel about her.
  • Lauren
    this poem is so good i really liked!
  • anita
    nice poem
  • Roseanne Joy
    Great Poem!
  • Dee
    Love grows where nobody knows, its only words and words are all I have to take your heart away, Well I thought all the words have found a place like the ones quoted above from famous artists, and writers, now I have found that there is still more. Nice work, thank you. Dee
  • Julia
    I really enjoyed this poem. It's an inspirational piece that is simple yet very heart warming. Thank you to the poet and please keep up the good writtings.
  • nolinda
    this is the best poem
  • kim
    Because it was so gorgeous and it reminds me of me and my best friend.
  • Cha
    its sweet
  • tosha
    I thought that this poem was great it really touched me. thanx
  • dipankar
    Its an excellent poem which i ever read in my whole life. It would be ranked in number poem. Great
  • josh
    this poem really touch me! please have more poems like this please!
  • sara
    this is a geart pome.
  • Sexygirl
    well i think it waz all good. Datz all i have to say
  • Michelle
    The perfect poem for a special friend. This sums up just how I feel about Dewey. His presence in my life is truly a God Send. My life was cold and empty, and was fast-approaching a bitter end, and then, there he was. Thank you for helping me breathe again .
  • guess
    WOW. WAT A WONDERFUL POEM. IM GOING 2 DO IT FOR MY PROJECT IF U DONT MIND ;)
  • Lucinda
    To have just a single friend such as this, would complete me.
  • Jennifer
    I like you poem.
  • Ana
    I loved this poem, I think it was really beautifull!
  • Alyssa
    This poem is truly one from the heart I loved it
  • Krystle
    Very nice, this poem touched me. you are doing good.
  • Derek
    WOW!
  • CHRONO
    I am asking myself. what i lack in this life. the answer is friendship
  • Dacquiri
    I really like this poem because it fits the way I feel about my best friend Ishela.
  • Adelyn
    A very lovely poem, I feel this way about my best friend.
  • Tom
    Well I just have to say that I really enjoyed this poem. I sent it to a best friend of mine and she love it. Thanks again, keep on writing :)
  • Maryam
    This is an awsome poem. It really ceered up my friend. It was just what needed.
  • Eden
    It was a very good poem, you are very talented.
  • C.J.
    Good
  • Kendal
    This poem is a great work of art. I really enjoyed it because it makes me remember about my friend.
  • Matt
    i like the choice of words
  • Natasha
    This poems is great.
  • Gabrielina
    This poem is so vivid and deserving of two hearts, truest friends that will shine forever bright.
  • Lemlem
    WOW! How can I tell you what I felt inside. It maked me think about all my good friends. I should say you deserve a big appreciation. You have such a good sense of frendship. Thank you for sharing this with us.
  • jen
    I felt that this poem was great and I'm going to share it with all my friends
  • Lisa
    beautiful and to the point!
  • Henry
    Just so beautiful. Words I needed to express thankfullness to a beautiful friend. Sincereity longing for expression. Only a beautiful heart can say words likw these.
  • amy
    This poem was very joyful to the person that had a great friend a best friend. Friends that are true are hard to find these days!
  • GABE
    hey! i got to tell you this, your poem was so good that i send it to all my true friend. you did a really good jod and i think you should be awared for all this good work you have done. ! GOOD LUCK and keep up the great POEM!
  • Trina
    I really love this poem. It clearly states how I feel about my best friend.
  • Lori
    I liked this poem and I send it to my good friend.
  • vikki
    I was very touched by this poem. It made me think of what i should ask to my friend 4 always being there 4 me in all my bad and good times in life. so to whom wrote this way to think of your friend!
  • Vitor
    I really love this poem. The person that wrote is a special one and maybe gifted with love for the others. I wish people could see friendship like that.
  • Jane
    i think this a nice poem. i would tell any one about it. =)
  • Karu
    This poem is goodddddddddd, Keep it up my friend
  • Hanna
    I think it was really beautiful and you deserve to do well
  • Kindness
    Bravo!
  • tash
    i found this poem very touchy and have been sending it to all of my friends
  • ala'a
    dear; i'd like to thank you for this poem you really deserved the best i hope that the faith gave me always the chance to read your poems
  • Rachel
    Your poam was really really good i like it alote and i sent it to my boyfriend and he loved it to
  • Nichole
    This is a great work of art! Keep creating!
  • Danielle
    I thought that it was a great poem! Ironically enough I think that each and everyone of us can relate!
  • crystal
    This is the most touching and beautiful poem I ever heard. Continue writing more poems and I will never stop reading it.U may definitely be a famous poet one day! Congratulations to u!
  • cops
    i like you poems very much. keep up the good work
  • Cindy
    That was a great great great great poem i loved it!
  • Jenny
    I just love your poem so much that I sent it to be friend and boy, he loved it very much. THANK YOU FOR YOUR WONDERFUL AND ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT YOU'RE THE BEST OF THE BESTS!
  • kalima
    This poem is a very touching and wonderful peice it has realy inspired me to read more of your poems as i take a great interest in poetry. keep up the good stuff.
  • Miriam
    I just loved how the words came together and said what I wanted to say to a very special friend. Thank you.
  • Miasha
    I think that this poem is really really good!
  • NicoleG
    I thoughht that this was a wonderful poem on how to descibe friendship I loved it
  • Juan
    I really like this poem. When I read it for the first time it gave me the feeling that the person who wrote at that moement it was crying. It sound really sad when you are reading it but at the same time is really beatiful that I just wanted to read and read it again.
  • Joe_B
    Well said, warmhrt... I sent this to a very special friend of mine, too. Thank you... Joe
  • chy
    This poem is just right for a new friend. I like it very much. I'm touch by the word. chy
  • Debbie
    To capture the depth of feelings of a friend and soulmate by speaking from within the heart and being able to put it into words is what makes poetry real for me. Thank you warmhrt for the gift of YOU!
  • Diane
    This poem had such a special meaning to my Mom during a stroke she had suffered. At her memorial service I am having the Pastor read it to thank everyone that visited her at the nursing home.
  • oldyeller
    Great poem on the subject of friendship,thank you, talented poet.
  • Rajesh
    simply good
  • Marget
    this is a really good poem.. keep up the good work.. peace, marget
  • barbara
    my dutch friend sent this to me and it expresses his feelings as it does mine towards him as a cyber friend thanks
  • kapri
    Your poem was beautiful. Keep up the good work.
  • Rose
    Beautiful. It expresses the words "thank you" when it comes from the heart.
  • Di
    very beautiful

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