My Journey with ‘D’: A Doha*
You’re a wrong turn that i always wanted to avoid,
—but will always melts once i smell your sweet steroids.
I walked in rushed ragged brisks till my feet fin’lly hurt,
—then i looked side to side and saw you again, dessert!
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Note: This is non-fiction! 😀 😀 😀
©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer. All Rights Reserved.
Photo credit: Mantra Media
In response to Daily Post: Street and Napowrimo Day 6.
Today, I challenge you to write a poem about food. This could be a poem about a particular food, or about your relationship to food in general.
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*Doha
The Doha is a Hindi stanzaic form employing a rhyming couplet with long syllabic lines.The Doha is also used in Urdu verse. This form steps away from the Hindi tradition of romantic verse and is often written as didactic or used in longer narrative verse.
The Doha is:
- stanzaic, written in any number of couplets.
- syllabic, each line is made up of 24 syllables and is paused by caesura at the end of the 13th syllable, making the line two phrases of 13 and 11 syllables. The couplet can be arranged as a quatrain breaking the line at the caesura.
- commonly used for proverbs and/or for longer narratives or didactic poetry.
Oh My, Marvelous poem, Rosema!! Dessert is so hard to resist!
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Indeed! My fats are begging me to stop but, hell no. HAHA
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Today I bought a bag of Hershey’s kisses…hopeless, I am 🙂
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aww! give me some! 😀 😀 😀
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Wish I could!!
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yeah! 😀
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Maybe I could just eat some for you? I’m quite willing 🙂
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go! 😀
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Okay!
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The flow of a Doha in Hindi is beautiful. I can certainly imagine your Doha in Hindi.
It would be great if you had the benefit of narration because half of the charm of the Doha is in its narration and strategic pause between words and verses.
All in all, a nice post. Thanks.
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Oh. thank you for sharing that with me, Raj. If it’s not to much to ask, feel free to translate this poem in Hindi. 🙂
Thank you very much!
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Losing myself in the presence of a desert so delightful is a sin i’ll happily commit any day 🙂
Wonderfully written Rosema.
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HAHAHA! You got it so right. Oh, dessert!
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I have much. Thanks!
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Thank you!
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Haha
Good one
Yummm
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YAY! Thank you! Will be reading yours soon!
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Love it! 🙂
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Thank you! 😀
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I can relate =) I lose myself and my common sense when it comes to dessert
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Hahaha. Me too!:)
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Oh well one Rose. I love how you have done this and there are a fair few of us that can relate to your love of desserts! 🙂
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Yeah. Thank you. D is just irresitible!
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mmmmmhh, yummy doha 🙂 cheers, Rosema ❤
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Yay! ❤❤❤
Thank you!
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Mmmm.
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Dessert? 😀
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I am craving some of that dessert right now thanks to your post! 🙂
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HAHAHA! Let’s get dessert! 😀
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sure! 🙂
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I am salivating for a fresh fruit salad. 😀
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that would be delicious right now…hold the melons please!
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and grapes and honeydews!!! 😀
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Grapes yes, you can have the honeydews…I’m not a melon fan.
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that will be noted! 😀 😀 😀
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🙂
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LOL! “This is non-fiction!” I feel the same way about desserts! They are hard to resist!
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Haha! Thanks, PJ! Got to highlight that this is my real thoughts towards ‘D’! 😀 😀 😀
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Why oh why does there have to be such a thing as sugar. Hahaha!
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HAHAHAHAHA! I thought it was a song, PJ!
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Hahahaha! You should write a song! LOL!!
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hahaha! i might because you are the… second or third person who have told that to me already! 😀
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Oh wonderful! I look forward to reading it! 🙂 🙂 🙂
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yay! thank you! 😀 😀 😀
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Desserts are so irresistible. The bane of my life.
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Haha! I agree, Jacq! Bane of mine, too!
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Sweet and terrible 😉
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hahaha! true!! 😀
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Haha! Oh this is so cute! I know very few people who can resist dessert successfully. But if they read your poem, they are doomed 😀
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HAHAHAHA! doomed! 😀 😀 😀
I know none, actually! Most of my friends are like me, a sucker for anything sweet! 😀
Thank you, NJ!
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The phrase “sweet steroids” is clever and appealing. Enjoy dessert!
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yay! thank you! desserts are like sweet steroids, just irresistible! 😀
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thank you very much! 🙂
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thanks again! 🙂
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