Ovi Poetry 90: OPPORTUNITY is your inspiration.

Ronovan Ovi Challenge, , , , ,

It’s been an… interesting… week. Interesting can give one a chance to think about choices made, and what can be made out of what has happened. What positives can come out of a disaster. Maybe a learning moment that opens eyes that were once blind.

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 90: OPPORTUNITY is your inspiration.”

  5. Strong and Free

    The message, clear, we’re strong and free –

     patriot’s opportunity –

    and though a few may disagree,

    I find it rather heartening.

    We’re on a tariff Ferris Wheel,

    a shyster’s overture to steal

    our soul, our land, his artless deal

    that deserves a robust rebuke.

    Trump seems at war with the world wide,

    save his role as a Russian bride –

    Putin’s Puta – a patsy’s ride

    that has been years in the making.

    How it will end, that’s quite unclear –

     repercussions will be severe –

    but there will be our new frontier,

    a border that is STRONG AND FREE.

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  7. Thank you for the prompt Ronovan.

    The yearning to see places

    Opportunity graces

    And my glad heart races

    Thinking of the plans to make.

    Reading about what to see

    And we all have to agree

    That we have to be carefree

    To be fully satisfied.

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