Ovi Poetry Challenge 73: DARE is your inspiration.

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Have you ever taken a dare or dare to do something? Are y0u a daredevil?  Okay, maybe that last one is pushing it a bit. Maybe to dare to do something is just overcoming a fear of rejection or failure? I guess if you have ever done that then you are a daredevil.

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 73: DARE is your inspiration.”

  2. A Putsch to The Gut; Trump 2024

    America has double dared,

    a curious result has flared

    above her skies: Who will be spared

    from this angry shift to darkness?

    Democracy seems to have spent

    her common sense in steep descent,

    a toxic flaw in the ointment,

    the salve of reason spread too thin.

    What to expect, his promised course,

    Deportations, likely with force,

    and a speck of voter’s remorse,

    spoken softly in the shadows.

    Oh, I suppose we will adjust,

    though Kamala Hopes have been crushed,

    women’s health rights consigned to dust,

    nuclear  finger back in play.

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