What the intercourse ? Poems?

[Zovistograt]

Why would you need to rhyme at all? If you're not good with rhymes, don't use them. I generally find rhyming in poetry to be highly pretentious anyway.

rhyme schemes add to the flavor in a work with a certain rhythm (not in crappy couplets), like sonnets.

Yes, that's certainly true. I however usually don't bother with creating poetry using strict meter like that, so rhyming doesn't work for most of my stuff.

I have a few exceptions though.

like freeform stuff?

I wake up
The light streams in on me
I stretch
Limbering my branches to weather another day
My hands are like leaves
embracing the sunlight
I cup my hands as the rain falls on me
And then I realize
I'm sleeping outside in a ditch.

[Kaz]

Why would you need to rhyme at all? If you're not good with rhymes, don't use them. I generally find rhyming in poetry to be highly pretentious anyway.

rhyme schemes add to the flavor in a work with a certain rhythm (not in crappy couplets), like sonnets.

Yes, that's certainly true. I however usually don't bother with creating poetry using strict meter like that, so rhyming doesn't work for most of my stuff.

I have a few exceptions though.

like freeform stuff?

I wake up
The light streams in on me
I stretch
Limbering my branches to weather another day
My hands are like leaves
embracing the sunlight
I cup my hands as the rain falls on me
And then I realize
I'm sleeping outside in a ditch.

If you want to call it "freeform," then yes.

I personally don't like the cheeky element of surprise you seem to be using in those last two lines. I'm also not particularly liking the way you start each line capitalized and ignore places where punctuation would really help to stop at pivotal points to ease the flow.

I wake up.
The light streams in,
and I stretch,
limbering my branches to weather another day.

My hands are leaves
to the sunlight.

I cup my hands;
the rain falls.

That's how I would've written it, but even then, it still seems really shaky and unrefined to me. But that's probably because it's your poem, not mine. It's really hard to imagine how to make someone else's poem smoother when you focus too much on your own style.

[Zovistograt]

Why would you need to rhyme at all? If you're not good with rhymes, don't use them. I generally find rhyming in poetry to be highly pretentious anyway.

rhyme schemes add to the flavor in a work with a certain rhythm (not in crappy couplets), like sonnets.

Yes, that's certainly true. I however usually don't bother with creating poetry using strict meter like that, so rhyming doesn't work for most of my stuff.

I have a few exceptions though.

like freeform stuff?

I wake up
The light streams in on me
I stretch
Limbering my branches to weather another day
My hands are like leaves
embracing the sunlight
I cup my hands as the rain falls on me
And then I realize
I'm sleeping outside in a ditch.

If you want to call it "freeform," then yes.

I personally don't like the cheeky element of surprise you seem to be using in those last two lines. I'm also not particularly liking the way you start each line capitalized and ignore places where punctuation would really help to stop at pivotal points to ease the flow.

I wake up.
The light streams in,
and I stretch,
limbering my branches to weather another day.

My hands are leaves
to the sunlight.

I cup my hands;
the rain falls.

That's how I would've written it, but even then, it still seems really shaky and unrefined to me. But that's probably because it's your poem, not mine. It's really hard to imagine how to make someone else's poem smoother when you focus too much on your own style.

I don't know, I wasn't actually trying to write a good poem >.>;;

But I don't know about your rearrangement of the rain thing.  I guess it's not my style.  Style should be unique from person to person.

[jnfs2014]

good luck.

lol, for the link, I put silver, it rhymes with quicksilver.