“Think of some famous poems, think of the best poems of all times. How many of them don't rhyme?”
D. Rudoy.
The rhyming poem is a dying breed: if you don’t specify the rhyming part withing a query, the search engine may offer you only free verses. Does it mean that modern poets have abandoned the hard and rewarding quest for the mesmerizing rhythm and perfect rhyme? “Love Is Poetry – Rhyming Poems About Love Life”, a brand-new collection of love poetry by Danil Rudoy, suggests that the land of exquisite rhyming still does welcome the daring literary connoisseur.
“Love Is Poetry – Rhyming Poems About Love Life”. A Tribute to the Best Poems of All Time
Classic love poetry takes you on a journey to your best self. For that, three ingredients are required: a poetic talent, a rhyme, and a rhythm. Combined, they form a magic solution that delivers the soul to a beautiful place where wisdom reigns over the hearts and deep awe is the best proof of the validity of your experience.
The difference between love and life is illusory: those who loved once know it best. In “Love Is Poetry – Rhyming …” Rudoy demotes this barrier with vehement determination of someone who's seen the truth and wants to share it with fellow humans. His love pivots around evolution: the lyrical hero is painfully aware of how fragile we are and pushes himself to an extreme searching for happiness that will outlast a transient desire. He boldly wishes for his beloved “to have a lucid dream tonight”, or to wake up to the immensity around that likens the human soul to a brave candle flickering in infinity and looking for kindred flames.
Magical themes and images are fairly common in “Love Is Poetry – Rhyming …” as the poet explores the human potential. Consequently, love plays the role of a catalyst that prohibits giving up. And, much like the free verse is an alluring trap for those without a clear vision of their literary path, it is tempting to indulge in weakness and give in to destructive egoism that is especially detrimental in love affairs.
To Rudoy, a rhyming poem about love is therefore a quintessence of power, a magic key that opens the hearts of the lover and the beloved, making their passion mutual and everlasting. And the poet’s hope is that, by reading “Love Is Poetry – Rhyming …”, people will become not mere observers but active and conscious participants in the building of their own happiness with those men and women who once captivated their souls and opened their eyes to the beautiful shine of eternal love.
Danil Rudoy on Rhyming Poetry
“The rhymed verse is the only literary form deserving to be called poetry. The rest is, at best, aphoristic prose. And most of the time it's mediocre prose with clumsy line breaks in unexpected places.”“One cannot simply blurt out some nonsense and call it poetry. Poetry is never trivial: it is aware of itself, and of the impact it has on life. The rhyme helps to maintain and polish that awareness to sublime states; it is the great filter of thoughts turning raw words and phrases into immortal memory.”“They will tell you that rhyme and rhythm were removed from poetry to arrive at new, modern, contemporary forms. It's true, but only in part. The rest is: bad poets realized that, if they didn't have to rhyme, they could sell their writing to the same readers who'd have puked at the authors had the “poems” been rhymed.”“The right to write poetry that doesn't rhyme is earned by showing that you can write poetry like the famous classics used to. If you can't, you are but an impostor. And, no matter what you call the pile of your "poetics", it'll remain what it is: crap.”“Naturally, among non-rhyming poems there also are true masterpieces of literature; although it’s hard to remember the last time a poem like that came around.”
