15 of the Funniest and Most Romantic ‘Roses Are Red’ Poems

Poetry and Valentine’s Day are intrinsically linked, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the long-standing tradition of ‘roses are red, violets are blue’ poems, which people often write for their beloved on 14 th February. Indeed, it’s a poet, the medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who sometimes gets the credit for popularising Valentine’s Day as a day for lovers. Chaucer never wrote a ‘roses are red’ poem, however, since they didn’t emerge in literature until the eighteenth century: in the 1784 collection of nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton’s Garland , we find this anonymous poem: The rose is red, the violet’s blue, The honey’s sweet, and so are you. Thou are my love and I am thine; I drew thee to my Valentine: The lot was cast and then I drew, And Fortune said it shou’d be you. Here’s a popular modern example: Roses are red, violets are blue, Flowers smell good, and so do you. Of course, such poems are usually light-hearted and not taken too seriously. For a start, neither of those statements, ‘roses are red’ and ‘violets are blue’, is strictly accurate: violets are a shade of blue, but are technically, well, violet-coloured, while roses come in a whole range of colours besides red. Anyway, now that’s established, on with the poems. We’ve compiled some funny ‘roses are red’ poems for those looking for a lighter, fun message for their Valentine or love note; and some more romantic examples to finish. Disclaimer: these are mostly original ‘roses are red’ poems appearing for the first time here (though of course, please feel free to use them if you wish). Many that we found online were fairly lame efforts, although we don’t pretend that the ones that follow are any less so. But they’re new offerings to what is, after all, the cracker-joke school of poetic efforts: they’re somehow meant to be a little lame … Funny poems Roses are red, violets are blue, You may be annoying, but you’re cute with it too. This poem pokes light-hearted fun at those quirks and foibles we find in […]

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