Poetry is great but everyone thinks it has to rhyme. Well I’m here to tell you it does not. In fact, at times, Rhyme can get annoying. It creeps into your head And that can get boring.

A poem can lift the spirits and nourish the ... if you know it sounds like the other words around it. Rhyme, alliteration and rhythm are not only pleasing to the ear; they’re sticky.

I discovered that some shiso, which a kind neighbor offered me last spring, and which seemed a failed experiment by fall, had only been fooling me — it is not ... of a poem can offer models ...