Ovi Poetry Challenge 57: WISDOM 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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10 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 57: WISDOM is your inspiration.”

  1. Assassination Imbroglio

    I recall nineteen sixty-three –

    assassinations guarantee

    that murder is not liberty,

    nor is an unchained arsenal.

    The darkness, America’s heart,

    wisdom’s divide, its racial chart,

    its politics, more sport than art-

    and we are left/right in shambles.

    This poet reflects from afar,

    the ever-escalating scar,

    the cult, the scam, a shyster czar

    burrowed deep in the nation’s soul.

    No matter where the scales stand,

    the failures remain. They command

    the fires to rise, the flames fanned,

    and there seems no way to turn back.

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