Rhythm and Rhyme Workshop

Hi everyone. I have a question. I love to write rhyming poems but sometimes I am at a loss for what word that will rhyme and still fit in the poem. Is there a book I could use that has rhyming words? Right now I write the complete alphabet at the top of my paper with the vowels just below. Any other suggestions?

Am in need of literary gurus to hone my skill in the line of poetry.

I have got a question. Read some Sheakspeare recently and found a sequence of rhymes that goes ab ab bcc. Excuse my ignorance but does anybody know the name for this construction?

Hey people i'm chinwe from Nigeria.l will love to have as much friends read my poems and post a comment on them.thanks

This one is not quite finished, but does any one have thoghts?

Upon Reading Popes' Illiad: A Broken Digression

Oncemore I go to Troy's Unforgotten shore,
Where Fame n' Glory are found evermore.
Illustrious deeds impress upon the mind
Of any and all who may be inclined

To set forth upon that line Heroic,
Versed in style: a sense wholly Homeric;
Penned with rhyme, metered-out in time—Inspired;
Even tho' with pay was sought and hired.

Eight years in translation spent, with dangers fraught;
Neither negligent, nor careless with thought
...

hello guys i am from Indonesia i want to share you about my first poem
could you give me a clue or critic about it please

To the goddess


You Lived on Heaven

Yet it provide you everything

All kinds of food you want to eat

Every clothes you want to wear

Every single place you want to visit

It's free you only ask



Somehow a prince with the white horse come

He asked

'Come with me my beautiful princess'

you fascinated by him

you lend over yours hand to him

both of you go to the far place together



they passed the golden bridge

and passed the universe

together and together

this is the long way journey



finally you recognize something weird

when you close your eyes for a while

suddenly your prince gone along with his white horse

His Gone, His Gone



You felt into despair

that despair become dark

totally dark that you want to think about it



Finally you pray

GREAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME YOU PRAY SINCE YOU LEAVE YOUR KINGDOM! !

'Give it back my prince' you said

'Give me my prince back' you said



it's been a month since you pray

your eyes become red

your voice become hoarse

your body become thin



somehow you see a hand

but it's not your prince hand

this is a human hand



You laugh

You split the hand

with proud you said

'I Don't Need You'

but the hand still remains there



several days it passed

the hand still remains there

several months it passed

the hand still remains there



Now the hand gone

Now your alone

fall into darkness

Forever and eternity

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'Concrete Kid'

The need to feel my difference
Is a siren's song unsung
Has been urged by my indifference
To being black and male and young.

I was raised to brush the idea of
Being something off my shoulder.
Only street lights gave me love
And brightened every year that I got older.

It's so hard today in this everyday
Man made much unneccessary battling
Between my heart and yours. So love now bores?
Pray the streets do hush their rattling.

Kyle S. Hamp

hi, i've just joined the site and posted my first poem. i have plenty more (which i'll put up as and when i type them out) but i haven't really let anybody read my stuff before. so if anybody has any tips as to how to gain exposure on the site and get feedback i'd appreciate it. i'd obviously reciprocate by reading and commenting on others' poems as well...

my first offering...

When I feel in the dark, I use my hands like eyes
When in truth they're just hands, there's no actual disguise.
How then does the world look to the visually blind?
What should really be heard, missed by visual minds?

Knew I couldn't quite see still I looked very hard...
Bang our heads, but we still trust our eyes in the dark.

Be all of me. When all senses connect they can spark
self-encompassing energy, realisation stark
Like a magic eye picture, the whole scene appears,
In that perfect spot between far-sighted and near.

Through a consciousness channeled, a quick glimpse of the light,
Epiphanic and global and blindingly bright!
Almost too bright to take in, but blink and it's gone...
In a flash it unravels, quick and sharp as it shone.

As we clutch in the darkness listening out for clues,
Are the things we look out for the reasons we lose?
Like magic eye photos they drift in and out,
Vision's 20/20, but focus in doubt.

Could we really cope if we could see, hear and feel
What we really could be, or would life be too real?
A step towards insanity or true mental health?
Real awareness engaged through acceptance of self.

please rate or comment if you liked it, i'd like to know what it means(if anything) to readers

So today is your birthday
and theres something worth knowing
i thought long and hard
about your birthday poem
God created heaven then earth
in just seven days
but took twice as long
on the mold for your face
He created the stars to place in the skies
sent a recipie to cadburys
and they made your eyes
then he went to da vinci
and he stayed for a while
the sculptured your body
and your B-Utiful smile
Then he travelled to Agra
and hired the finist tailor there
he worked for a month
as he braided your hair
So god went to venus
and she gave you passion
an abundence of love
and aphrodite's eye lashes
Then Ralph lauren
sponsored your skin
used peaches and cream
and mixed it all in
He winked and he smiled
as he gazed at your face
he added a kind caring nature
and filled you with grace
Then he stood back and admired
at all he'd achieved
unprecidented beauty
that has to be seen
to be believed
...R4R
my favourite poem please vote if you liked it...