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I have been thinking long and hard, how to come up with this sensitive topic without hurting anybody with my sincerity, so please while reading this, don't forget, I am here as a gentle, nice critic, not somebody, who wants to be pain in your ehm… a** :-)

Well, like you all have noticed, we had really awesome poetic challenge here on My EC, which came viral and many active bloggers participated. Big applause to Onee for her idea!!! Many poems were composed and published. I read them almost all BUT I hardly left a comment. The question is… WHY? You know, guys, I am sincere and not somebody two-faced, who will tell you, wooow – awesome poem but will think something totally different. I just simply can't do that, so this all was my inner, personal fight.

Anyway, back to the topic. Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that many posted poems I read had NO RHYMES. I hope, you all know, what rhyme means and that it is the main characteristic feature of the poem as we were taught at school. I also know, there is something called free verse poem but even this style has its own rules, therefore I am personally against it and would like to share with you a quotation from one American poet:

To sum it up… Do you really think it is such a big deal to compose an easy rhyme? I am not anybody special, my poem is just average and I bet full of mistakes, however I just kept the main idea of the poem - to compose it with the rhyme. If you don't know, how to do it, I would like to be helpful, so here is my short "poetry guide".

1. You must have an idea, what you want to write about. So let's say I want to compose a poem about Foggy Forrest.

2. Imagine this foggy forrest and now brainstorming part is coming. Don't forget, you should turn on your fantasy on maximum :-) 

3. Suddenly, I got first line of my poem in my head.

I am lost, trees are everywhere AROUND…

4. Now, it is time to think, what can rhyme with around. Usually I come up with some own ideas but when it is something hard – the word, you can use rhyme makers, you look up on the Internet – but please, try to use them as less as it is possible – it is kinda cheating, nah? :-D

So, let's continue and finish the rhyme… I am thinking .. "what the hell can rhyme with AROUND"… and there are on my mind words such as, WOUND, SOUND, FOUND, etc. I like the word SOUND and now it is my task to transfer it to the second line… so here I am thinking about the second line…

there is no wind, no shining sun, no sound…

You see? I got first two lines of my poem with the rhyme:

I am lost, trees are everywhere AROUND,

there is no wind, no shining sun, no SOUND.

By the way, I know this might be a bit silly but I am not able to make awesome sophisticated rhymes in few miutes, while writing this all. Let me also add that there are different kinds of rhymes etc., so I showed you the easiest one on my exmple above.

So I hope, I was little bit useful and this blog maybe gave you different view on poems  and you will try to compose something interesting :-) I am of course not against your posts, where you express yourself in ten lines that are full of nice emotions but I am not sure, if we can call it poem.. Thanx for reading it all and I hope, I won't be eaten alive :-D