Roses Are Red Poems · Funny
Roses Are Red (And Violets Aren't Blue)
Roses are red, violets are — no.
Violets are violet. I checked. It's so.
This poem's been fibbing since 1784,
but you deserve honesty — that, and much more.
Original poem © QuillOak — personal sharing is permitted.
“Roses Are Red (And Violets Aren't Blue)” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/roses-violets-arent-blue
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- Poem
- Roses Are Red (And Violets Aren't Blue)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Roses Are Red Poems, Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- Funny, Short
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- QuillOak originalRoses Are Red (And Violets Aren't Blue), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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- Not recorded in the imported source
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- SHA-256 9cf78e9b13586bd3…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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