Ovi Poetry Challenge 28: CHALLENGE 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 28: CHALLENGE is your inspiration.”

  3. Endgame

    As I move into my endgame,
    a year, ten years, my life’s quit claim,
    each day can often seem the same,
    and yet the challenge still remains.

    Whatever life is called, old age
    is frequently the final stage,
    and that writ tale is all the rage ―
    the test of how one handled time.

    The minutes mount, the hours soar,
    the poets write, the lions roar,
    the bored timekeeper keeps the score
    yet in the end, life is a draw.

    Genes help of course, and coinage too,
    and plain dumb luck, the human zoo,
    to live one’s life where one holds true,
    the simple virtues, trust, and truth.

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  7. Life may not give us what we want
    Dissatisfaction may haunt
    But we should not let them daunt
    Us from trying to make life better.

    Accepting what comes our way
    May take us many a long day
    And is a challenging way
    It may be the best decision.

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