One of the joys of poetry for me is rhyme. I love Dickinson's slant rhyme. Bob Dylan the way he'll slide pronunciation for the rhyme. And hip hop -- it's amazing all the words rappers find to rhyme.
I like internal rhyme schemes just as much as end rhyme. Sometimes it's the act of discovering what the poet is up to with rhyme that's fun for me. Rhyme also provides a clue to form -- is it a sonnet, villanelle, or lullaby?
Our poet today is the best kind of rhymer. His rhyme is natural, not forced; surprising in pleasing ways; and fresh.
Eric McHenry ...
PUNKPOET.NET
- JOHN BURGESS
- PLACES: Grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan, lives and works in Seattle. IDEAS: Whitman, Dickinson, Kerouac, the Beats, Montana bars, punk music, haiku. POETRY: "Punk Poems" (Ravenna Press 2005), "A History of Guns in the Family" (Ravenna Press 2008), and "Graffito" (Ravenna Press July 2011)
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