Free-form or rhyming verse

[Maine Finn]

Personally, I prefer rhyming verse, it's more challenging and it sounds prettier when read aloud.
Some of what I've written can also be viewed here:
http://www.fictionpress.com/~ladypatriot
*Warning* Most of my poetry is decidedly not happy or cheerful stuff.

This one is free-form because it wouldn't have made much sense with rhyme scheme.

Friends And Rainbows

Friends, I’ve heard it said,
are fleeting and few;
into our lives and gone again,
like passing rainbows, nothing more.

But to differ I do beg.
It is all about who you choose
to be your rainbows, and how
much a rainbow you are to them in return.

The brightest colours shine
in the wake of storms, and
so it is for a time that
they are appreciated most,
before fading into the mist of memory.

“Fade not, dear rainbows,
for I need you still!
Don’t leave me here,
to wander alone in the dark!”

True and lasting friends
shine long after the storms
have passed and
the need for rainbows is no more.

I wrote this senior year in high school because I was bored in detention.
;)

[farmgirl]

nicely done
I don't write much poetry... I have one at school that I'll share tomorrow.

[Haiw]

Too bad you guys don't know Dutch... :(

[Ichhabe]

I used to "perform" with something that I called Kamikaze poetry.
It is just my Nordig heritage kicking in. In the good ol' days a man had to be skilled with his sword and tounge.

What you do is that you make a poem from scratch there and then. Not sitting in a comfy room with a bootle of red wine and a sparkling sound from the fire place trying to write something neat down.

[Maine Finn]

That's what I did... it took me maybe two minutes to write that one.

I remember watching a movie about poetry slams in senior English that was essentially the same thing. Performance poetry. I'm nowhere near that skilled.