Ovi Poetry Challenge 87: FOCUS is your inspiration.

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Through everything, if you stay focused, you can find something good to hold on to.

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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9 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 87: FOCUS is your inspiration.”

  4. A Clear Eye

    As time moves on, one loses sight –

    though the end is nigh, left and right,

    right and wrong, contretemps take flight,

    positions freeze, compromise fails.

    New players prance upon the stage,

    agendas shift, we try to gauge

    the playbook, and even the page,

    and wait and wonder what’s the game.

    The wise pay heed, pinpoint focus,

    the choice of words that provoke us,

    the flimflam, the hocus pocus

    of diplomats and charlatans.   

    Ukraine, A.I, a bag of tricks,

    Economies tossed in the mix,

    the worlds poor will take their licks-

    the oligarchs will have their way.

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