This idea came from China more than 2,000 years ago. When people made friends they held a friendship ceremony and recited a promise of friendship aloud.
Write your own poem of friendship. Use the same basic pattern and put in your own ideas, such as:
I want to be friends with you
till ...
If we are friends,
I will ...
I will give you ...
I will like you more than ...
Promise of Friendship
I want to be friends with you
till we are
over a hundred years old,
till the sky turns green
and the mountains melt.
If we are friends
I will lend you my 13-colour biro,
and let you stand
in front of me
in the dinner queue.
I will give you
the freshness of the first-picked
apple,
the wisdom of the moon’s beam
and my last square of Toblerone.
I will like you more than
the first day of the summer holiday,
the way the wind whispers
and orange Smarties.
Pie Corbett
