This year’s Poetry Crisis Valentines:
ALLEN GINSBERG
Roses are red,
Mushrooms are crude.
I saw your great mind
starving, mad, nude.
ADRIENNE RICH
Roses are red,
violets are blue;
This is the oppressor’s language,
but I need it with you.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Some roses are red,
Some roses are pink;
We’re surrounded by water
With nothing to drink.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Roses are fed
by insects and worms.
Does Man love Art?
Man visits, but squirms.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
I told not my Love
& how my Love grew!
Roses are dead,
Violets are through.
I told you my love.
I no longer love you.
ALEXANDER POPE
Roses are red,
Shakespear’s a hack.
The hair on your head
Is under attack!
AMANDA GORMAN
Roses are red,
violets are blue.
Competent leadership
should not seem so new!
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