GAAH! I've never even met someone else who's SEEN the movie Heathers! My favorite part is when the football players' dad is like, "I LOVE MY DEAD GAY SON!"
Doing forced poetry isn't fun. I had to do some in English last year. It was funny because I didn't take it seriously but it had to be one of the most boring things I've ever done. There's nothing to it.
Sorry about your friend Amy. As for the issue of rhyming, you can use a website I use. www.rhymer.com
It's a rhyming dictionary. You write a line and, if you have trouble with a rhyme, use the dictionary. And, if you need to, rearrange the sentence order. For instance, in "Relentlessly Ending", in the first stanza, it says:
No mercy for the blind
Salt into wounds we always grind
With that second line, I took "We always grind salt into the wounds" and turned it into "Salt into wounds we always grind". It still remains gramatically correct.
Also, poems do not have to rhyme. Look at Even In Death; it does not rhyme.
Rhyming isn't the focus in poetry. The focus should be to bring it from your emotion. From your pain... from your hate... and from your love. Poetry is very dynamic.
For me, poetry comes from anger and hate and pain. Like when I was going through some religious difficulties, I wrote "Relentlessly Ending" and "Sins of the Father, Atoned By the Son". "Relentlessly Ending" being the first, describes a messiah (in my case, Jesus) abandoning his promise of salvation and leaving everyone to die a miserable death. "Sins of the Father, Atoned by the Son" was about the messiah's death and his resurrection which he failed in and was unable to regain his angelic status.
I find it much easier to concentrate when I do not concentrate on other poetry. I concentrate on the things happening in my life. I channel it into poetry. So, to answer your question, no, I do not have a favorite poet... other than a few lyricists from whom I get inspiration in poetry style (i.e., violent, romantic, etc.) My main inspiration for lyrics is Randy Blythe of Lamb of God.
Try to just concentrate on your life to channel your happenings (and, yes, me using that phrase is further proof of me being actually from the 1930's) into poetry.