Ovi Poetry Challenge 61: SUCCESS 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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11 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 61: SUCCESS is your inspiration.”

  1. Chasing the Golden Ring

    Success for me is poison fruit,

    less a goal, more like purloined loot,

    and in any case, somewhat moot –

    I am not chasing Golden Rings.

    While I believe that more is less –

    It’s seeking can cause real stress –

    the end result, anyone’s guess,

    for our final outcome’s the same.

    Still, I appreciate the gleam,

    that many have to be the cream

    of the crop, their Olympic dream,

    the devotion, the skill, the heart.

    I balance the pleasure of sport

    against the dark, rampaging court,

    flood, war, disease, events that thwart

    others of even simple joy.

    This yin and yang, a circus tent

    of pleasures sought, of ethics bent,

    may have left us all weirdly spent –

    struggling, or not, with how we live.

    FYI: The 1940 Olympic Games were scheduled to be staged from 20 July to 4 August 1940, initially in Tokyo and, later on, in Helsinki. They were suspended indefinitely following the outbreak of World War II (the Winter War in particular) and did not resume until the London Games of 1948.

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