Ovi Poetry Challenge: FREEDOM is your inspiration.

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Thinking about FREEDOM, my first consideration was the SOCIAL IRONY theme of OVI POETRY. But, there are several other ways to go. LOVE is definitely one, as in the freedom to love or the freedom of being rid of a love gone bad. HEROIC FREEDOM is probably the most obvious. But there is also a freedom of spirit, mind, from stress.

OVI POETRY

Ovi is a syllabic/metre poetry form. In this case, Ovi is from India, originating in the Marathi language. The Ovi  has been in use in written form since the 13th Century, but the women’s ovee/ovi predates the literary form by at least the 12th Century.

The Ovi are in general, lyrical folk songs expressing love, social irony, and heroic events. They are written in the following scheme.

4 line stanzas, as few as one stanza and up to as many as you like.

8 syllables or less per line

Rhyming is AAAb. The second stanza would be CCCd. The third, EEEf. And so on. Meaning nothing in one stanza must rhyme with anything in the previous stanza. The fourth line does not rhyme.

Example:

Roly Poly by Judi Van Gorder

The big toothed tot with golden hair
picked up a bug on Sister’s dare,
it rolled into a ball right there
and won her springtime heart.

Notice the rhyming pattern is AAAb or
A
A
A
b

My Attempt

Blue flowers continue to grow,
with the shadow’s making them glow,
giving life to darkness and woe,
dying each year to yet return.

 

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17 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge: FREEDOM is your inspiration.”

  1. Freedom’s Ring

    Is freedom just a sometime thing,
    a wasp bereft of its sharp sting,
    a bell that can no longer ring,
    or is freedom’s reach so much more?

    How do we take freedom’s measure?
    Does it equal times of leisure,
    an easy life full of pleasure?
    Or, is it less clear to the eye?

    My freedom rises with the sun,
    a sleep filled night, till night is done,
    where truth is woven, never spun,
    and honesty is each man’s prize.

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