Help! Advice on non-rhyming poetry?

[ampoule]

It IS lovely, isn't it? It is why we (?) write poetry, I think: to say things that might be too painful to say otherwise. Thank you for your caring, but as Afro-Americans discovered long ago via the blues and their Spirituals, writing or singing about pain alleviates it, as if to assert that one has not been destroyed by it.

Do you know, for instance

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
I'm goingto tell God all my troubles
Another Man done Gone

sung (my preference) either by Paul Robeson or Odetta

Not meaning to break into your conversation but I have sung that many times. I taught an Advent study based on African American spirituals last year. Robeson, yes, but I really love Kathleen Battle.
Some of us write poetry to hide behind or to sort things out.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Not meaning to break into your conversation but I have sung that many times. I taught an Advent study based on African American spirituals last year. Robeson, yes, but I really love Kathleen Battle.
Some of us write poetry to hide behind or to sort things out.

Oh, Katherine Battle - Yes! And Jessye Norman! and Kathleen Ferrier! and Marian Anderson! And...and...and...