Where are you all Rhymers????

No for real, where are you all?
I've been reading a lot of prose
Take this thread as your call
Come on out, Teach me how is done!

I'm pretty new to this fierce game of rhyme,
never been the one to compete with such pros,
but I'll take my rounds and learn to climb,
until every poet pays to sit in on my shows.

:D

Now that's the attitude I sought to find
Come on out guys! Teach us how to rhyme
You have two ladies waiting to read your mind
But hey the clock is ticking, you are running out of time.

Ok...I'm not going to speak in rhyme because I'm taking this question as a serious one...??? Just using the last post as an example

Now that's the attitude I sought to find
Come on out guys! Teach us how to rhyme
You have two ladies waiting to read your mind
But hey the clock is ticking, you are running out of time.

You have abab which is rhyme but the meter is way off..I know you were just mucking around but...if you seriously want to learn about rhyme you need to watch that :)

The best rhymer on this site was Frank Maguire (gone now)...let me try to find a poem by him as an example....that is...if this was a serious post?

Oh the meter?
As in words per line? Or as in iambic, trochaic, etc ...

My best song
the one I would never sing
is resting beneath my tongue.

my tance of F.G.Lorca

^^ if not sung, then written?

Rhyme rhythm,
broken record
more offput than Joanna Eberhart
concerning Stepford.
Got a penchant for
busted rhythms call it hipster syndrome,
formed poetry makin me
feel older than Flintstone.
Go ahead, pencil in criticisms,
opinions, the big ones.
Won't ever stop writing free verse.
I break rhyme of my own will
'cause f*** volition.

There once were two from PnQ
who said to give rhyming it's due
some gave up the ghost
but others did post
I wrote about glasses of brew.

When he says singing it includes writing, reciting... ...you should read Lorca (your language)
but doing so you can not ask question because they evaporate.

Http://youtu.be/i8z7KzB16Ik

I'm sure Dylan's Visions of Johanna
would drive most all of you half bananas
singing some folk songs like old Susana
while the naive and freestyle Pollyanna's
think to hear a pro rhyme the first word
with the other three times is as absurd
as the first line rhyming well with the third
when it's natural as a mocking bird
Was Robert Zimmerman just a loner
before they ever called him a stoner
With a borrowed poets name like Dylan
He popularized slang while freeewheelin

Not fair Micheal is professional
==
My need for fun in this world is gone
O gosh I am done
Bring me a gun
On and on
Life
is like "buns on the run"
But if you drop your bun
if the bun and the fun are gone
you are only left
with your hand
burdened
with a loaded gun

Not talking about the brother
or father of a wannabe cop
I'm talking about no other
than the one that was on top
at least after a paypal went viral
and he sat in the courtroom like a potted palm
then things came out and began to spiral
to hypnotize me into the calm
before the perfect storm
That everyone was talking about
in some kind of form
Most, who have not, will no doubt
understand better my mysterious relentless rhymes
Your verdict will lie within
from the Miami Herald to the Philadelphia Times
If you watch much HLN

Jordan,
formed poetry makin you
feel older than Flintstone?
write a couple of new ones,
make us feel like the Rugrats.
This is a new era
But free style reads
like a journal
More like a diary entry
I think rhyme is a tough one.
This is general speaking
Not personal.

RM, Lorca... I like his poem Arbole, Arbole. The spanish version sounds better it doesn't allow me to ask questions.

So you know him

I am glad that you conceded,
sometime there is no understanding needed.
Sometimes the real meaning is seeded
where the understanding is unheeded!!

Free verse doesn't HAVE to sound like a diary. I've never read anything by Basho that sounded like a diary, and the only form he ever used was haiku.

What I like to do is use internal rhyme, off rhyme, alliteration, enjambment, and slight phonetic alternations to create my poem's sound. Check out my latest poem 'Le Soleil, La Lune.' It's a perfect example of this.

A rhyme scheme can be nice, that's a given, but it's a huge task to keep it from sounding archaic. I've read a lot of rhyming poetry on this site and I'll be honest - I could take it or leave it. Just as it takes skill to create free verse that doesn't sound boring and flat, it takes skill to write formed rhyming poetry that doesn't sound like it was written by a 19th century Dandy.

Check it out! Even greats like Whitman and Dickinson wrote in free verse from time to time!

http://www.thehypertexts.com/The%20Best%20Free%20Verse%20Poems%20of%20All%20Time.htm

True, free verse doesn't have to sound like a diary entry but I found out that it's bound to, specially the one that is written on the spot. I mean there's nothing wrong with them, they are vents and also poems. it's just that from time to time is refreshing to read good rhymes. That's why I was wondering what happen to those rhymers. . . How come I barely see ballads in this site?

As far as the haiku, I don't consider that one as free verse. . . per se
I think is a type of form poetry that has its own restrictions and those restrictions allow the poet to think through before writing every single thought that comes to their minds..

Let me check your poem and those others.

I can never forget
that month of June,
When I was in the rain
kissing my moon.

Dressed in white
(my only desire),
Cool winds were blowing
our hearts on fire.

I was no longer
on my feet,
Her love was enough
for me to breathe.

Depths of the rivers
and colors of the skies,
The world of my dreams
had come into her eyes.

I was under
the spell of my doll,
and the rest of it....
wasn't too bad at all.