Ovi Poetry Challenge 80: TREASURE 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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8 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 80: TREASURE is your inspiration.”

  3. From the West Coast of Canada on Christmas Day:

    More Reflections: Christmas Day 2024

    Daybreak, nineish, sleep a treasure,

    then yogurt, my Wednesday pleasure,

    life in balance, how I measure

    the passing of this quite odd year.

    Poised on the edge:  two oh two five,

    a caricature felon’s jive

    steering the ship. He will contrive

    to take the world into the void.

    I tire of echoing his name,

    but it is always there, the same

    vulgar artless thug, quick to blame

    yet with no joy, nothing but ire.

    Our revelries will start to wane –

    these few final days, endless rain,

    wind – will I seek a higher plane,

    a refuge of hope portending?

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