Im not a poet and I know it

I have been studying, writing, hearing, and reading poetry since probably the 1st grade when I started learning nursery rhymes. Since then I have failed at the one thing a good poet must have, Rhyme. I am a horrible rhymer (is that a word?) it is one of the reasons why in my poems I use a technique that I learned in the 8th grade, to end each line with an important or impacting word, and it has gotten me pretty mediocre grades so maybe rhyme isn't so important. But all the famous poetry seems to have rhyme so I guess its an art i have failed to master. In the poem "The Possibility" the first thing I noticed, you guessed it the rhyme!  In each stanza the second and fourth ending word rhyme, they make the poem flow in the direction the poet intended it to be. The rhyme is not the only thing that was noticed, in the second to the fourth stanza the same word in the beginning of each stanza is also in the last line of the stanza before it. For example, stanza 2 line 4 " It was not beautiful to me"  Stanza 3 line 1 "I know that work is beautiful" Stanza 3 line 4 "Of squandering my solitude"  Stanza 4 line 1 "And solitude was beautiful"  These two things stood out to me because everything written in this world has a purpose every word, punctuation point and space has impact in the authors eyes so there must have been reason for this to have occurred, but my literary knowledge is short lived, so any thoughts? :)

Yea what she wrote!

When we read a poem, its just kind of a automatic though that the speaker would be the author. But for some poems I think the poet writes these poems to give the thoughts other people have a voice. It is like how we can hear a song and decide that that song fits us or our situation at the moment, well poems are the same way. The poem "The Writer" I believe was written for my mom, or at lease for her thoughts. I have been writing this story for my best friend back in Texas and I send her chapters when i get around to finishing them, my mom has never asked to read it or see what I am writing but I just kinda know that the poem reflects her thoughts.  This poem fills in the things I know she wants to say to me but just doesn't  say it, and I think that alot of poems are like that, they give us an outlet to portray our thoughts both good and bad.

Have faith, easier said than done

"For the sleepwalkers"  was a delightful imagery packed poem. I could see every stanza play out in my head, which means alot because if I cant "see" I won't be able to fully understand the poem I am reading.  Another thing I enjoyed was how the author spoke about one subject yet his  message was projected to all. I am thankfully not a sleep walker ( that I am aware of at least) but I do know of times where I loose faith in myself and this poem is about people like me. We loose faith in us, in what we are doing and in our actions, we forget to trust ourselves and if we cant do that then what else is left to trust? The poem "spoke" to me in a sense by saying " We have to trust our hearts like that" like the sleep walkers trust they will make it safely around and back into bed. I do not know  how many of us do that, as a student we doubt everything in fear it may be incorrect, when do we ever just know we are right and have faith in our answer? ( and if you say you are one of these students that just knows you are always right, then you are lying ^_^ )