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I'm curious to try out poetic form called doha. It is Hindi in origin and a self-contained (rhyming?) couplet, traditionally spiritual or sensual in nature. Each line is 24 syllables w/ a caesura (break) in between the first 13 syllables and the last 11 syllables. I THINK there's no limit to number of couplets. Confused enough yet? I know I am, so I'd love to see what cleverness Prosers come up with. Let's call it a #loosedoha. Pixie points for anyone who can do a sortha (inverted doha).
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She hides her body from my eyes with embroidered silk

In my heart she is naked with skin like milk

Pure and untouched like a new flower risen from seed

My love for her has turned into more it´s need

So much of my day is spent watching her from a far

She is as beautiful as a shooting star

Never to be held by arms as unworthy as mine

She is a Goddess vestal and exquisitely divine

-----------------Inverted Doha-------------------

I have known her since we were children at play

We are friends but she is the light of my dull grey day

Everything brightens as I sing out her name

Even though she will never look at me as the same

I watched her grow from girl into a vision

Never to see all my hopes and dreams come to fruition

Though she acknowledges me I simply exist

She is my one true love never touched or ever kissed

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