Carpenters' rhyme is like a red, red rose. ... Two years ago, one of the guys brought in some poems by Mark Turpin, a carpenter who has published collections and won awards.

The roses are red violets are blue rhyme builds on poetic conventions traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queen of 1590, which goes: It was upon a Sommers shiny day, When ...

One thing to keep in mind is to have the last words of your love poem rhyme. But don’t worry if your roses-are-red poem isn’t perfect. If your rhymes end up being forced, ...

Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, this one doesn’t 14. Roses are red, violets are blue; TL;DR: They differ in hue 15. Lasers are red, lasers are blue, laser guns go pew-pew-pew ...

Poems don’t have to rhyme. Just ask William Carlos Williams. ... “Roses are red/Violets are blue/If your house has romantic ocean views, you’ve got swagger, playa. ...

Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems Rose Fyleman. Clarion Books, $16 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-618-38141-8. Previously released titles are brought to new life.

There pictures are posted with the rhyme: “Roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally, and we’ll deport you.” The post follows with a “Happy Valentine’s Day.

Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard.