Ovi Poetry Challenge 34: LOYALTY is your inspiration.

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Loyalty. It’s harder than some may think. Sometimes being loyal may create serious conflicts. You’re loyal here but you’re loyal there, but at some point those two are opposite. Who are you loyal to them? That’s one example of loyalty that’s more real life than one considers when seeing the word.

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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8 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 34: LOYALTY is your inspiration.”

  3. The Loyalty Test

    Our character reigns us supreme,

    the person we are, that we seem,

    and more than that, the things we dream,

    how we stickhandle all our days.

    As the years move along, unfold

    in ways designed, and unforetold

    as well, we measure what we hold

    dear, friends, lovers, our very soul.

    It is not smooth this life we sail,

    remaining true to those who fail

    to measure well, the ethics scale,

    who seek their own harsh majesty.

    Yes, some aspire to be like God,

    pathetic souls, mightily flawed,

    cruel soldiers bedecked in fraud,

    and other sins of commission.

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  5. Being loyal to ourselves

    Helps us to delve into depths

    And understand our strengths

    To face what comes our way.

    We can then be true to others

    Not just for appearances

    That is one of the wonders

    The best of human nature.

    Thank you Ronovan 🙂

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