Ovi Poetry Challenge 14: LOVE is your inspiration.

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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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8 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 14: LOVE is your inspiration.”

  4. Wither

    I do confess a shadow falls
    across the path, late winter squalls
    of doubt abound, the loss of all
    the harmony that youth once claimed.

    I journey there from time to time,
    the distant past, my far-flung prime,
    days of yore, a lost paradigm
    of hope, of truth, above all…dreams.

    Tis the poet’s duty to tell,
    to convey both heaven and hell,
    to cast a mandatory spell
    of quizzical sorrow and awe.

    And in the gloom of love’s twilight,
    a world amiss in tragic flight,
    humanity awash in spite,
    we tumble into the abyss.

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