Ovi Poetry Challenge 70: EMPTY 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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13 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 70: EMPTY is your inspiration.”

  2. The Desperate Poet

    Perhaps poets should have quotas,

    curbs on themes, lyric approaches

    yet that seems rash, an iota

    of nonsense to jump start this verse.

    Even at my most quiet time,

    in reverie, lost in the climb

    to inspiration, specks of rhyme

    regain their  rhythmic  way to me.

    Moments of emptiness instill

    a rebirth of the poet’s quill,

    and whether majestic or frill,

    the fullness of the end’s a win.

    Desperate poets intend to please

    even amid minor brain freeze,

    even if the result is cheese,

    grilled poetic snacks are filling.

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  6. A prompt which echoed what I am feeling now.

    It is so easy to brainwash

    And make people accept a cause

    Which always leads to chaos

    People killing each other.

    When a country is divided

    And religion is painted

    As that which spreads hatred

    There is an empty feeling.

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