Violets are Blue, Roses are Red, This is more fun than breakfast in Bed!

There can't be anyone who isn't familiar with the original and old favourite to many a Valentine's Day Message!

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you,

Before moving onto showing you how easy and fun it is to create variations on this pattern, here's a variation on the above original i think you'll all enjoy:

Roses are wilting,
Violets are dead,
Sugar is lumpy,
And so is your head.

Looks easy hey, well it is. In fact it's so easy and fun and once you start you will be creating delightful, surprising and amusing variations all day long.

Write the names of colours that contain only one syllable and along side write words that rhyme with each colour. Eventually, given some time and effort you will have a list similar to this :-

Red	Wed, Said, Dead, Fed, Head, Lead and Bed.
Blue	Who, Too, Two, Through, You, Shoe, Stew, Do, Few, Flu, Glue, Loo, Zoo and Clue.
Pink	Wink, Rink, Sink, Stink, Drink, Kink, Link, Zinc, Blink and Mink.
White	Right, Tight, Sight, Fight, Fright, Height, Kite, Light, Sight, Bright, Night and Might.
Brown	Drown, Down, Town, Gown, Frown, Crown and Noun.
Gold	Told, Poled, Sold, Fold, Hold, Cold, Bold and Mould.
Gray	Way, Ray, Pay, Say, Day, Gay, Hey, Lay, Stay, Day, Fray, Clay, Bay and May.
Green	Teen, Preen, Seen, Keen, Lean, Bean, Glean and Mean.

OK, now you're ready for the fun and creative bit! Start off with a "fill in the blank" poetry completion exercise and recite the following stanza, and fill in the blank at the end.

If you pick "Red" say:

Roses are blue.
Violets are red,
If you think this is right,
You have rocks in your ____.

If you pick "blue" say:

Roses are red.
Violets are Blue,
I'm sticking with you,
Coz your made out of ____.

If you pick "Pink" say:

Violets are blue.
Roses are pink,
Did you just fart,
Or is that your feet that really ____.

If you pick "White" say:

Roses are red.
Snowflakes are white,
Please be my Valentine
Coz you're Mr _______.

If you pick "Green" say:

Roses are red,
Lizards are green,
Did you know you have the longest tounge,
I've ever _____.

Hope your getting the idea, your next step once you've caught on to the "fill in the blank" idea is to complete an entire poem on your own.

This is a quite a challenging exercise and one that can be worked on at anytime. Speaking of which, here's another poem for you :-

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
I made this poem up,
Whilst sitting on the loo.

The main thing is of course is to have fun, do it as often as you can and if you reckon you have a really good onesend it into us and if we like it that much you might just Win a Rose!