First, remember, YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE THE WORD of the CHALLENGE in your poem, but use it if you like.
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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The Debate
We came together one fine night,
positions frozen, no thin light
of compromise, the oral fight
commenced in the darkened town hall.
Facebook had been our sparing ground
where wit and weariness abound,
sharp verbal thrusts, a proving ground
for pointless prattle in the void.
A public airing seemed just right,
a taste of democratic rite,
leavened with humour, and a slight
nibble of crow in humble pie.
Alas, though the notion was great,
we could not arrange a debate,
for aversion would be our fate,
ill feeling ‘til the end of time.
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