Ovi Poetry Challenge 51: STEPS is your inspiration.

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Steps. One at a time will get you where you’re going and where you need to be. Walk away from where you’ve been and what’s holding back.

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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12 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 51: STEPS is your inspiration.”

  4. The Ethics of Poets and Poetry[i]

    A poet, this poet, takes note.

    Perhaps he will start with a quote,

    set the stage for what will be wrote:

    Did he sell my soul for a rhyme?

    How close is he to the abyss?

    he often opts to reminisce –

    there, danger is somewhat amiss

    and he land safely on the couch.

    Has this poem no worth to show,

    a sad word salad on the go?

    Ah poet, have you sunk this low,

    with a Wednesday mid-week trifle?

    He admits he walks a slim path,

    poor editing, a dull scythe’s snath,

    broken, deserving of your wrath –

    poets should know where they are bound.

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    [i]“There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff’s edge.”   Charles Bukowski

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