Rhyme and Rhythm

So, I just got the email inviting me to read my poem Rhyme and Rhythm at the Pre-Professional conference coming up next week.  I submitted Rhyme and Rhythm along with two other poems, Insomnia (which is on here somewhere) and Psalm of Resolve - which I wrote in seminary years ago.  Rhyme and Rhythm was written in high school for a class.  I had to create an anthology of 30 poems - ten from the text, ten from outside sources, and ten of my own.  

Rhyme and Rhythm

Poetry from the heart

doesn't have to rhyme.

All it needs is an easy flow,

a little Rhythm to push it along.

But if you're uncomfortable 

With a free-verse ditty,

You can put in a word

To make it quite Witty.

Then again I know some people

who prefer not to rhyme.

They like the beat-nick Feel,

like the pound of a drum.

But others, I know,

Would like it much better

If the poem could Rhyme

With a word or a letter.

-February 5, 2003

Wish me luck!