it's a journey for sure - you might also like what @tinajordan writes - there are many poets on steemit who never get noticed but they are writing lovely poems.
As for rhyming, most people come to poetry through listening to popular songs and they feel that a poem needs to rhyme to be musical. But what they don't realize is that poetry creates its own internal music and doesn't need a melody or a rhyme scheme to make it pleasing to the ear. Some effects are subtle and touch us and we're not even sure why, but believe me, there is a skill beneath the words that reaches us at an almost subconscious level :)