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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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PhynneBelle

fun and games

because you are ash in

  my greedy palm,

    because you

can appease me, lull me

  into thinking

    red

means go. I never said

  sad motels spelled

    redemption,

I never said we were

  white picket fence

    dreams.

you will loathe me one day,

  just not now. pride

    is nothing

more than a shining word.

  time will make you

    see.