Ovi Poetry Challenge 19: TRUTH is your inspiration.

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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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10 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 19: TRUTH is your inspiration.”

  3. The Telly News of the Day

    The air near me is autumn cold,
    as I watch the news, fresh and old,
    parse the truth of what I am told,
    and eat my yogurt and raisons.

    I see the world through the wide screen,
    filters that allows me to glean
    the wheat from the shaft of what’s seen,
    seen, unseen, the eyeball horrors.

    Veracity is Gaza town,
    is Israel as it clamps down,
    as death on both sides wears the crown
    of victory and human loss.

    Poetry does not serve war well.
    Poets feel, but they cannot tell
    of terror and the endless hell
    beyond the television set.

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    • We are all taken up by the many wars going on at the moment, and there are many most forgotten and out shone by the two big ones.
      In WW1 and WW2 there were many poets up to their necks in the action.. even their words were not heeded. I fear there’s no hope for the world… I pray I am wrong. 💜💜

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  5. Truth can sometimes be bitter
    It shows clearly to the listener
    That life would have been simpler
    If they had kept to the straight path.

    But twists and turns on the road
    Without fail have exposed
    Our minds are often uncontrolled
    When we face a dilemma.

    THANK YOU RONOVAN 🙂

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