Roses Are Red Poems · For Kids
Roses Are Red (Broccoli's Green)
Roses are red, broccoli's green,
and I have a question (don't shout, don't be mean):
if flowers are plants, and my veggies are too,
why don't YOU eat roses? I'm just asking. (Do you?)
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Roses Are Red (Broccoli's Green)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Roses Are Red Poems, Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Funny, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABB — couplets.
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- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalRoses Are Red (Broccoli's Green), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 ff0f7961d33e1fcb…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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