In the United States right now we have some crazy things happening with our political system. Justice, revenge? Both. Politics? Definitely.
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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Justice
“Life is not fair,” the poet said,
a cliché, perhaps, something read
more than once late at night in bed,
musing on times journey to death.
Caught in a swell of failing sleep,
thoughts at once shallow, rarely deep,
the darkest of notions that creep
into the hearts of old lost souls.
And then the dawn rose yet again,
and hope returned to his chagrin.
“I must again pick up my pen
and pursue the unfindable.”
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Very clever 😄
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Thank you. I have to say that Ronovan’s prompts are incredibly useful…and perhaps are keeping my ever diminishing brain cells active…
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I do know exactly what you mean 💜💜
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