Ovi Poetry Challenge 24: REST 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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14 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 24: REST is your inspiration.”

  5. Dream Writer Terrors

    In the shank of the night, when sleep
    should be not anything but deep,
    terrorist thoughts begin to creep
    into the disturbed writer’s brain.

    Countless horrors layer the land,
    Hatred spewed, fueled, and fanned,
    truth, less clear, and, now and then, banned,
    as the writer tosses and turns.

    The writer’s angst is not mankind’s,
    his twist and turns and lost plot lines,
    the threads he dredges, slowly mines
    within his tortured cleverness.

    Yet we all share the larger pain,
    the real world we can’t explain,
    wars and deaths, the runaway train
    that will not let our children live.

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  12. Playing from morning to evening
    Children not believing
    Or even imagining
    That they need to rest for some time.

    After a long and busy day
    Most of us would long to play
    Or remain at home and stay
    Relaxing on the easy-chair.

    Thank you Ronovan for the prompt 🙂

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