Ovi Poetry Challenge 38: SCHOOL is your inspiration.

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When I think of the school, the word, I’m taken back to my high school days. For those elsewhere in the world, high school encompasses the last four years before we go to university. I had an interesting four years, three different high schools. I graduated from a school I’d only attended for a year, after having been at my other school eight years. It was not fun but I suppose a needed change. The change was from a country school in Mississippi, to an urban school in the Greater Atlanta area of Georgia. The two could not have been more different. (The other high school I attended was in Athens, GA where the University of Georgia is located and probably where my love of the school and its football team, the Bulldogs, or as we locals call them, the DAWGS!!!)

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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10 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 38: SCHOOL is your inspiration.”

  5. The School of War and Other Stuff

    Each day has a hard lesson learned,
    seminars echoed, sorrows burned
    into our brains, and ever churned
    into the mix of tragedy.

    High crimes and misdemeanor days
    unfold in most curious ways –
    all within an ethical haze
    that baffles small children and pets.

    We have a wealth of grotesque wars,
    grievous deaths, escalating scores,
    countries governed by dinosaurs
    determined to swallow us whole.

    I do believe we’ve had enough,
    warmongers with their evil guff,
    their jingo feuds and other stuff –
    the earth deserves a time of peace.

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  10. Entering the school gates
    Always thinking what awaits
    Freedom or constraints
    Thoughts of children and adults.

    The ringing of bells
    Was a sign for farewells
    Shouting goodbye to friends
    End of a school day.

    Thank you Ronovan 🙂

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