A poem doesn’t have to rhyme.
In fact, it doesn’t (most the time).
The ones that rhyme frequently please
and put the reader’s mind at ease
but make no challenge to the form
and thus are not as memorable
as the first bite of a ripe strawberry
red like nail polish
the kind your mom used to wear
when she would go in and talk to your teacher
about the times you would daydream
about things that had a sense of poetry to them
and both of them
(your mother and the strawberry)
could be both sweet or tart
depending on who you talk to.