Challenge
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).
WWJD?
“What would Jesus do?” used to be the catchphrase du jour,
asked before every decision, big or small,
but now I can’t recall when last I heard it at all;
so what, has everyone suddenly turned pure?
Or are we no longer concerned with doing what's right,
our consciences lost, our guilt complexes gone?
Verily I say it looks like a new age has dawned,
an age where it now often seems to be night.
Behold, 'tis now the age of just doing what seems right;
but is rightness in our own mind, no measure,
no ultimate ruling on what, or who, to treasure?
Alas, power is king and power is might.
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I also could not find info on the number of couplets permitted, so I put 3 together, to comprise one poem, *shrug*.
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