Ovi Poetry Challenge 62: MOVE is your inspiration.

Ronovan Ovi Challenge, , , , ,

Stay or go? But does that mean location or maybe in career or achieving goals? Which of you plan to be in the 2024 Olympics and what event?

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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13 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 62: MOVE is your inspiration.”

  4. Four Nights in Chicago-My Slapdash Doggerel Take

    Viewed from my Canadian perch,

    the DNC is less a Church

    and more, perhaps, a raucous search

    for something aligned with promise.

    Exceptionalism’s a curse

    though what I have done may seem worse –

    POV squashed into slight verse –

    poetry fused with caffeine gall.

    That aside, there’s magic afoot,

    and truth – two did not pussyfoot –

    Barack and Michelle said ‘kaput’

    to Trump’s politics of discord.

    When Thursday night finally falls,

    Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,

    confirmed in United’s loud halls,

    will battle for America’s core.

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