Roses Are Red Poems · Love

Roses Are Red (A Toast in Eight Lines)

by The QuillOak Editors

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1Roses are red, the aisle has been walked,

2the rings have been fumbled, the toasts have been talked;

3now comes the part that the cameras won't see:

4ten thousand small mornings of "you" and of "me."

5Roses are red, and the cake will be gone,

6the band will pack up and the guests will move on —

7but long after petals and toasts disappear,

8may you keep what you promised the world gathered here.

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Poem: Roses Are Red (A Toast in Eight Lines)
Poet: The QuillOak Editors
Length: 8 lines
Form: Roses Are Red Poems, Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
Themes: Love, Happiness

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