Rhyme Thyme

It seems that some popular critique on this site is that the poem didn't rhyme, so it was hard to read.
Why do some people need a poem to rhyme to conclude that it is good.
The more it rhymes the better it is?
There are many different types of poems, and an odd critique is that it was not rhythmic.
Personally a lot of my poems I write quickly, and allow the words to flow from the pen (or keyboard). That is when the best verses are revealed. I'm not incapable of writing a poem that rhymes, it is just whatever comes out at the time...
Although nobody has ever critiqued me in this way, or at all for that matter...I was just curious to other's thoughts on this...

Sincerly,
Rhymically Challenged

rhythm and rhyme are different. rhymically challenged means you have problems with rhythm. Which one are you talking about?

I don't think that non-rhymed poems are difficult to read, it's just that a good rhyme scheme can help develop a good flow and rhythm.

A bad rhyme scheme can trip up a poem and mess up the reader. It can also obscure the message of the poem through the poet's excessive tomfoolery at attempting to fit the rhyme.

I think that poems without rhythm are difficult to read out loud, which is my favorite way of reading poems. Not all poems need to be read out loud, or are intended to be, however. When it comes to personal preference, I prefer poems with a rhythm, but I don't downvote poems that purposefully lacked a rhythm. I comment on poems that seemed to lack a rhythm due to an excessive and difficult rhyme scheme though.

Personally I like to "near" rhyme, sometimes trying to do a perfect rhyme comes off as being forced, and it can ruin the rhythm of an otherwise great poem..try it once, you might get hooked on it.

~I do find it easier to read poetry that rhymes, I don't really know why. But, I also enjoy poems that don't really have a rhyme scheme. I guess the reason is that whenever I'm reading a poem, I keep looking for a rhyme pattern when theres not one there...

I know they're different
I was referring to both
Just the assumption that a poem has to either rhyme or have rhythm to be considered good is strange to me. I guess this is because I tend to favor those poems that "mess up the reader" with "excessive tomfoolery"

poems that rhyme, always seem a little better to me, a poem with no rhyming doesnt make it a bad poem, or doesnt make it harder to read. I rhyme most of my poems but what i write comes from the heart so if it doesnt rhyme then to me, it doesnt matter

hehe.. yea, im the same as you jaynesloss, i cant make my poems rhyme.. it is just what i am feeling and the words that come to me.. and i have had a few people tell me that it would benefit from a rhyme scheme or such, but i just cant write that way.. hehe.. i do admire people that can though :)