6 poems

Poems About Sisterhood

Original poems about sisters by birth and by choice, with humour, friction, loyalty and shared history.

Sisterhood is not one mood. It includes borrowed clothes, old rivalries, emergency phone calls and the relief of being understood without a full explanation.

The poems below include biological sisters and chosen sisters, keeping affection specific rather than polished into slogans.

playful·reading

The Witness

You remember the kitchen before the extension,
the dog’s real name,
why nobody mentions the green suitcase.

When childhood edits itself,
you arrive with dates and evidence.

My sister, inconvenient witness,
keeper of the unflattering truth.

playful·birthday

Borrowed Jacket

You took my jacket in 1998
and deny it in every recent photograph.

The sleeves are too short for you.
The pocket still holds my cinema stub.

Keep it. I have spent twenty years
using it as proof that we remain sisters.

warm·card

Chosen Sisters

No shared surname. No childhood hallway.
We met after the hard parts had names.

Still, you know which silence means stay,
which joke means I am frightened,
which train to take without asking.

Some families begin late
and arrive exactly on time.

quiet·reflection

After the Argument

We do not apologise elegantly.
You send a photograph of the cat.
I reply that the plant needs water.

By evening we are discussing the roof,
then our father, then nothing.

Peace returns through the side door,
carrying groceries.

tender·message

Three in the Morning

At three in the morning
you answer before the second ring.

No greeting, only: what happened?

That is sisterhood sometimes—
not wisdom, not rescue,
just someone already awake
inside your fear.

hopeful·message

Different Cities

Our windows face different weather.
Your buses run east; mine cross the river.

Yet each Sunday we make tea
and place our phones against the sugar bowl.

Distance learns our routine.
It sits between us quietly
and does not get the final word.