need help changing the way I write...

I always write poems that rhyme.And I am not wanting to do this anymore but I dont know how...I figure IF i can write what just is on my mind without rhyme it would help me more (mentallyand emontionally) But If i did and looked at it it just wouldnt look right is it just me that I am too inscure... Help!!!!!

I think you may be insecure. Just write. It doesn't matter how, just let your hands and heart do the talking....writing.

Hey...I write poems that ryme too....just write down what is on ur mind and then maybe u can find a way to arange it the way u want...might not start out the way u want but practice is the only way to improve....good luck
Love me.
Jennifer

Live youre life, don't care for things like that and wright!

whats wrong with rhymes? just keep trying if you really don't want rhymes, and you'll do great! so what if the first few of this style are cruddy? it's part of the process....good luck hunni!

"But If i did and looked at it it just wouldnt look right is it just me that I am too inscure... "

^Then close your eyes while you write.

Have you read many non-rhyming poems? If you haven't try it so you can get an idea of how others do it.

What I'd like to see you do is write a poem about your insecurity, rhyming it until the last coupled stanza.

I bet you'd hit it right outta the park.

Cheers
DM

I also write poems that rhyme. Except one (deep in my thoughts) for me its harder to write rhyming poems rather than unrhyming. My unrhyming poem, ws rather hard to write out on paper because it seems awfuly weird to write just sentences. The thing about unrhyming poems is, you dont have boundries or anything telling you you have to write a certain word that works with another word or rhyms. I think unrhyming poems will help you express more be cause you can elaborate more and write what you feel, not what sounds write. My advice to you is write like you would a diary. You could write and Etheree or a poem that has 1 syllable in the first line, 2 in the second, 3 in the third, so on until you get to ten, or it can be reversed.

Poetry is you. I write poetry for the therapy of it. The rate is an ego thing and I like my ego patted. But to be able to express yourself , especially if you do that through writing better than orally and in front of others; is a good outlet for ideas that might be bottled up and need or want to come out. It is healthy.