Ovi Poetry Challenge 20: HAPPY is your inspiration.

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Time to get a little Happy.

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 20: HAPPY is your inspiration.”

  3. Hell, Yeah, I’m a Happy Camper

    In our dark fuliginous state,
    where we are crushed by the world’s weight,
    our destiny, our very fate,
    laughter’s a rare commodity.

    It exists in many a form.
    We have weathered many a storm ―
    be happy, a clarion norm ―
    laugh and the world will laugh with you.

    Yet there are times when one can’t laugh,
    when war signs its vile autograph,
    leaves its prophetic epitaph ―
    I will be with you forever.

    Thoughts like these are a poet’s bane,
    rattling bones in a weary brain,
    landscapes of loss, nothing to gain,
    as war’s machinery grinds on.

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