Poetry Crisis Valentines 2024
Gil Scott-Heron
Roses are red,
butterflies are free,
the revolution will not
be shown on TV
Robert Browning
Roses are red,
violets are blue.
If I strangle you now
will you always be true?
Coleridge (Kubla Khan)
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
I’ll build you a pleasurdome
in Xanadu.
I decree you are my valentine!
Shakespeare
Blue is the violet,
red is the rose,
which, by some other name,
would still please the nose.
Carl Sandburg
Roses are red
Sugar is sweet
The fog rolls in on
Little cat feet
Douglas Adams
Roses are red,
Violets are Blue,
The ulitimate answer
Is 42.