Ovi Poetry 96: STRENGTH 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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12 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry 96: STRENGTH is your inspiration.”

  6. Those Who Survive

    Life is a bounty, I declare,

    a gift that one would hope to share –

    so many lost in sheer despair,

    yet incredibly courageous.

    Migrant journeys across the seas,

    cross many lands, and none with ease –

    Coyotes cruelly pillage, squeeze

    the life blood out of those with none.

    In my convenient sinecure,

    a bookish author, quite obscure,

    a privileged minor auteur,

    I offer pale sensitive words.

    I doubt that I could ever do

    what they do, escape toxic brews

    of wars, tempests, cunning coups

    and seek to reinvent themselves.

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  12. […] The Lord is my strength and my shield,through Him, my pain and angst are healed,with a promise He signed and sealed,by the Holy Spirit within.I rise up steady and secure,with a strong faith and courage sure,bolstered by God’s confidence pure,and a heart rejoicing in song.Poetry type: OviPoetry prompt: ronavanwrites […]

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