Ovi Poetry Challenge 81: SYMPATHY 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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10 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 81: SYMPATHY is your inspiration.”

  1. In The Year Twenty Twenty-Five

    A new year begins, the old one

    has stepped aside. It is now done,

    its mission complete and its sun

    now set, never to rise again.

    We hope that peace will be our fate

    for we need somehow to placate

    this failure to rejuvenate

    the calmness that we’ve never had.

    Against a time of awful wars,

    losses that crush our helpless shores,

    coxed by decadent dinosaurs,

    we  inflame the sky with fireworks.

    Our streets are full of drifting souls

    jam-packed safety nets rife with holes,

    change guided by pandering polls –

    we one step forward, and two back.

    the year is young I hear you say.

    give it a chance, some time to play,

    to find its footing, find its way –

    it will be whatever it is.

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