Ovi Poetry 99: FLIGHT 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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14 thoughts on “Ovi Poetry 99: FLIGHT is your inspiration.”

  3. A Flight of Fancy-No Excuses, It’s Just a Hobby

    This Wednesday morning I may choose
    some levity, my humour muse
    is kindled by the wealth of news –
    revived wars and papal conclaves.

    That’s just for starters, hor d’oeuvres –
    Trump and Carney, a swag of nerves,
    tariff tête-à-têtes, ego curves –
    soothing the brittle bumptious one.

    Alas, though humour has its place,
    absurdity has little grace,
    bearding the lying won’t save face –
    the devil’s in charge of most facts.

    So there I am this drizzly morn,
    a poet with his humour shorn,
    and never to my manners born –
    ‘tis time to get to Pickleball.

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