Ovi Poetry Challenge 88: WONDER 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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11 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry Challenge 88: WONDER is your inspiration.”

  6. I wish I could switch to more lyrical themes, joyous, but the events of our world weigh heavy. Todays prompt is “wonder.”

    Don’t we all.

    The Day Trump Jumped Whole Hog Into Bed With Putin

    It seems now that there’s little doubt,

    the man is surely but a lout –

    Russian talking points – a fact drought

    and we wait, we weep, we wonder.

    This war has endured these three years,

    Peace talks in place, high-handed gears,

    victim barred, the abuser steers

    this revision of history.

    We witness this from worlds afar,

    befuddled by the blatant scar,

    a President, a pseudo-Tsar,

    in collaborators lock step.

    It’s the obviousness that pains,

    the brazen blasphemy of grains,

    of despotic sands meshing lanes –

    a third-rate circus clowns’ sideshow.

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  7. Thank you Ronovan for this prompt.

    Ovi Poetry Challenge 88: Wonder is your inspiration.

    It is the wonder of flowers

    That they have special powers

     Making precious the hours.

    That we spend with them.

    To see a flower in bloom

    Drives away all gloom

    And helps us to resume

    The daily routine of life.

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