Roses Are Red Poems · Funny

Roses Are Red (A Toast to My Worst Best Friend)

by The QuillOak Editors

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1Roses are red, your advice is the worst,

2you laugh at my downfalls (and always laugh first);

3but when it all crumbled, you showed up by nine

4with snacks and no questions. You're awful. You're mine.

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Poem: Roses Are Red (A Toast to My Worst Best Friend)
Poet: The QuillOak Editors
Length: 4 lines
Form: Roses Are Red Poems, Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
Themes: Funny, Friendship, Short

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Roses Are Red (A Toast to My Worst Best Friend)

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