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.
possession
a legal point that seems to shine,
that twirls upon the fishing line
of those who never stand in line:
possession is clearly 9/10ths.
What’s mine is mine the story goes,
a tough nut to crack, I suppose,
but a universal tableau
of land, lives, wars, language, revenge.
Is there a means to untangle
these threads that are bound to strangle
each riposte the Earth might dangle
to end these tragic bloody wars?
Oceans are slowly gobbling land,
our healthy earth is a dreamland,
and the rock we stand on is sand ―
and time is quickly running out.
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Thanks for the prompt!
https://theversesmith.blogspot.com/2023/11/my-broken-heart-ovi.html
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Ovilicious work. Thanks!
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Good prompt. Thank you. https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2023/11/17/ovi-poetry-challenge-22/
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