Ovi Poetry Challenge 59: LIGHT is your inspiration.

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Okay, so LIGHT might sound kind of like a hippy thing from the 60s or something. A touchy-feely thing. Last week was CHAOS, which we all experience inside, outside, and all around. Sometimes good can come out of that chaos. Not complete good. Heaven knows right now that would be practically impossible. For me, it’s been incredibly chaotic inside the old noggin about everything happening here in the US. I know why, but then I realized that sometimes we can’t do anything to help others see past their own blind passions so I decided to dust off the chaos of those matters with those who are too hard in the head and heart to be open to other ideas and move on. In other words, the recognition of the chaos showed me why it was chaotic to me and then… poof… it was gone. At least inside my head. I can just let others be.

So LIGHT. I saw the LIGHT. Yeah, I said it.

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 59: LIGHT is your inspiration.”

  4. Lighten Up

    I wake in the vanishing night,

    the dark disappearing from sight,

    jumbled thoughts, an intrusive blight

    on sleep, on vulnerable earth.

    It seems a natural response

    to wars efficient renaissance,

    and peace talks, filled with nonchalance,

    a dance that leads to nowhere much.

    But I have had enough dark views,

    thoughts driven by a wizened muse,

    whose suckered in by breaking news,

    truthful newsflashes but broken.

    Clearly I need to lighten up,

    try to comprehend Donald Trump:

    No, that would drain my half-full cup –

    best to just grab a few more winks.

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  12. There is a lot of darkness
    And troubles that seem endless
    Which may lead to our weakness
    But there is always a dawn.

    Problems may try to strangle
    And life may seem fragile
    But the light of a small candle
    Extinguishes all darkness.

    Thank you Ronovan for this prompt.

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