How Do You Write A Valentine Poem That Rhymes?
• Choose your Valentine. This technique can be used on anybody: long-term partners, someone you’ve been dating for a few weeks, or someone you’ve got a secret crush on. The main thing is to make it rhyme and to include plenty of compliments. • Change the old to new. The old cliché of ‘roses are red, violets are blue’ is too retro and not so original. Nevertheless, it’s a great basis for starting your own poem with; you just need to give it a modern twist. For example: • ‘Lilies are white, Daffodils are yella, I lie in bed at night, Feeling smug you’re my fella!’ etc. • You can pick any flower and any colour you like. • Oh Valentine! You make me rhyme! Find the rhyme. You can make anything rhyme; it’s not as hard as it sounds. Just think of a sentence you might want to write to your loved one such as: ‘You always make me smile’. Then just go through the alphabet trying out every letter that could rhyme with smile, for example: dial, file, I’ll, mile, Nile, pile and so forth, until you f
