For Valentine’s Day, ELIXHER is excited to team up with PassionRoses, fresh flowers from the fields of Colombia, hand-picked by the farmers, and flown overnight to the U.S.
We’re asking our readers to tweet, Facebook, Instagram or comment with their personal twist to the classic love poem, “Roses Are Red,” for a chance to win 24 stunning stems of roses!
Whether your take is romantic, a call to action, or absurd, tag ELIXHER in your rendition and use the hashtag #PassionRoses. We’ll be reposting your poems and one lucky winner will be randomly selected to receive the prize, just in time for Saturday, February 14. The contest will run through Wednesday, February 11, so get your creative juices going!
Plus, all ELIXHER readers are eligible for 15% off their PassionRoses orders. Enter the discount code ROSE4LOVE at PassionRoses.com to get a deal on a beautiful bouquet for a special someone…or keep these breathtaking blossoms all to yourself!
Here’s #TeamELIXHER’s take on the popular poem:
Roses are red,
Black queer and trans love is revolutionary.
Our self-love is pretty radical too,
ELIXHER honors all three — and we celebrate you.
Tell us your version in the comments or on social media! Be sure to tag ELIXHER and use the hashtag #PassionRoses. We’ll randomly select and announce a winner on Wednesday, February 11.
Roses are red,
Wine can be too,
Poetry is hard sometimes,
Wine.
#PassionRoses
Roses are red,
My bank balance has me blue,
I need to win these flowers,
To send to my boo.
#PassionFlowers
Roses are red
Violets are blue
True love is rare,
Which makes us the perfect pair
#PassionRoses
Red lips, rose tinged tips of tongues met and danced, as violet rays of passion hues infused the air dispelling myths of queer love causing Lady to perpetually sing the blues. Following clues left like rose petal trails, we trip lightly down delicate paths of spun sugar, sweet with the promise of not me and you… But us. #PassionRoses #Deconstructed
Red violets, blue roses, red go lights, stop green. Her touch leaves me addled, no sense can I glean. #PassionRoses #NikkiGInspired
blushed rose red bowed lips
kiss love’s fragile nature as
Violet sings the blues
#PassionRoses #Haiku
Red roses, blue violets, prose well known of love, sweet sighs and kissed eyelids, this gift from above #PassionRoses
Roses are red, her eyes brown and green, J’aime son beau sourire, it frequents my dreams #PassionRoses
Roses are yellow
Violets are pink
When it comes to writing poems I stink!
Roses are red
They Grow in my yard
When I think of you
the stem gets real hard
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
There’s no better sound
Than your lover whispering ‘I love you’
#PassionRoses
Thanks for entering our giveaway! We’re loving your submissions. Keep them coming!
Roses Are Red,
Our fire & passion equals it too,
our love grows where many can’t bloom,
so strong,
we would grow from a dune,
and even on the moon.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Everyone deserves love,
And that includes you.
A little different, but here I go
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Our bodies are wrapped in Transparency,
But you can’t see inside of our hearts,
Look inside my mind — it tells ALL,
And that’s a lot more than my parts.
Roses are red.
Loving our Black queerness is long overdue.
It’s time to embrace our beauty.
Let us face the sun and bloom.