Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26886981-20160916022150/@comment-25477067-20160930163048

What would be really cool, and might help a bit,would be to make a free-form poem as practice. I've found that after writing some free-form, focusing more on the descriptive quality of the work rather than the rhymes, I can much more loose in my rhyming poems, and still make them fit. You can easily space out a rhyme three lines before coming back to it if you know what you are doing. One of the pitfalls to writing poetry is you get it in your head that it must rhyme every time, or every other time. A poem that perfectly illustrates my point is Gary Soto's "Oranges"

http://edhelper.com/poetry/Oranges_by_Gary_Soto.htm