Roses Are Red Poems · Love
Roses Are Red (A Toast in Eight Lines)
Roses are red, the aisle has been walked,
the rings have been fumbled, the toasts have been talked;
now comes the part that the cameras won't see:
ten thousand small mornings of "you" and of "me."
Roses are red, and the cake will be gone,
the band will pack up and the guests will move on —
but long after petals and toasts disappear,
may you keep what you promised the world gathered here.
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Quick facts
- 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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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 9-12 syllables (median 11). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- The QuillOak Editorstoday
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- QuillOak originalRoses Are Red (A Toast in Eight Lines), 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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- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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