Ovi Poetry Challenge 25: SURVIVAL 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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11 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 25: SURVIVAL is your inspiration.”

  3. Existence

    We, each of us, reach out to trace
    our steps, the life that we embrace,
    how we move to a state of grace,
    and perhaps be at peace again.

    Some of course have never known peace.
    their lives ever on a decrease,
    a sloping slide with no release
    from misery and suffering.

    I witness this from my soft perch,
    a rural world, and natures church,
    where my spirit soars in the search
    for flashes of tranquility.

    I cannot be but who I am.
    Life unfolds, there’s no diagram ―
    a test, then the final exam,
    an accounting of how it went.

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  10. The very poor living on the streets
    With nothing to meet their needs
    So many unfulfilled dreams
    Life is but daily survival.

    And there are the filthy rich
    Who live their lives without a hitch
    Always finding means to enrich
    Their world with wealth and power.

    Thank you Ronovan for this prompt 🙂

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