about rhyme.

[Aish]

ask some of the haters what their favourite poem is and they'd say;
the charge of the light brigade
she walks in beauty, or a multitude of other rhymed poems.

My two favorite poems are "Sun Artery Rupture" by Peter Diaz and "Tantra" by Sumeet Panigrahi (even though it shouldn't be) and neither of them rhyme.

While I concede that rhyme can be done well, and I have stingily expressed gratitude for those that do (some of which I have found here), I do not personally embrace it. I am guilty of ceasing to read rhyming pieces simply because the kiddie song immediately produced in my head grates on my nerves. I am guilty of rhyming myself, a fair while ago, for a comp. Didn't like it then, either. Personal bias.