How To Write A Poem, Version B

Today I'm going to talk about how to write a poem again. Following my silly cooking recipe metaphor used last post, we're going to again write another poem according to a... recipe and ingredients. Okay, that was a slightly-awkward sentence. Don't blame me, I've got Luna looking over my shoulder here and demanding that I write said poem about her.
So today let's do something a little more... free. No meter, no rhyme: we're going to stick to free-form poetry, and we're not even going to use stanzas. We're going to instead focus on building a free form poem using rhythm as the main component. It's a little tricky, but there's a lot of places you can go with this, and it overall often allows you to build a poem that has more impact and sounds more mature or professional. Even if, yes, yes, rhyming poems can still be very powerful in their own right.
Luna says I'm not using the recipe metaphor enough. Well, okay, fine. Rhyming poems are cookies, freeform poems are pies. Because it's pies that win baking competitions. And they're a billion times harder to make than they seem at first.
So, regarding the 'ingredients,' you get to pretty much set your own. But the rhythm must be consistent: no

"and I
then so said I
     I said this to him, when he didn't want to hear"

As a bad example of what I mean by that.
What we're aiming for is more like this:

"The rhythm of this poem is simple;
meter by meter, word by word;
It comes out to about the same length:
has a distinct beginning, middle, and end."

Look at me. There's meta-poetry right there. All hail me as poet-loser-king. Okay, okay, okay. Let's start this up, and see what we can do with the basics. And for this, yes, all of us are going to write a poem about Luna, or the night, or... something. Luna says so.
Since there's no set format here, and this is just practice, let's do something short. Let's keep it all one block, and make it a poem that illustrates an image or a scene. But because of the lack of format, I can't exactly give as many instructions as last time, but I can still drop a few helpful tips. For example, if you're just starting to learn to write with this kind of poem, don't worry about using fancy indenting or formatting right now. You can always play with that later to give your poem more of a distinct look. Right now, focus on the rhythm and length, to try and keep things regular.
Here's a few more hints, written in example and explained a little.

"A line, written like this, has rhythm, from commas." The commas divide the syllables: 2 3, 3, 3. Read it aloud and note both the way you speak it, and the way you naturally frame your words around the pauses, giving each word before the pause extra emphasis.

"Two lines, written in this format
will be read continuously like they are one." There's no punctuation at the end of the first line and no capitalization at the beginning of the second: these things normally cause us to take a slight, natural pause, or put emphasis on the next word. Without either, even though we recognize them as separate lines, we read it as one.

"Aesthetics appeal: alliteration aims at alphabetical allurement." In other words, alliterating isn't just for looking cool. It adds impact and also helps with flow; when I use a bunch of words that all start with the same letter together, even if the rhythm is really off, our eyes still tell us all the same there's some kind of hidden rhythm there simply because it recognizes everything starts with the same letter. About half of writing is all about lies and deception and looking good.

So let's see what kind of poems you come up with, with these things in mind. What, example? Fine. I'm going to do a short, six-line image poem, focusing on Luna.

beneath horn of plenty, glowing with
sapphire sunlight borne in shadow
as her ephemeral curtain wafts all around;
eyes the color of midnight's lush flora,
kiss me with your lips, soft and silky
giving the night's kiss beneath moon's light.

Hey, I didn't say it'd be good, I just said it'd be a short image poem. Okay, okay, that's enough. Hopefully this at least gives a few ideas about things. Maybe next week I'll try something more useful and write about... writing again. For now, Luna wants coffee, and I agree with her. Coffee time it is.

~Scrivener Blooms