Poetry Challenge

Ovi Poetry Challenge 58: CHAOS is your inspiration.

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Chaos. Now there is a word for you. As I was trying to determine what word to use for the challenge, and no, I don’t have a list somewhere I pull from, the jumble was happening. I usually try to use a word that goes along with something happening in life. Well, I think chaos works. But maybe not why some think. For me, chaos is all around me and inside. I can’t spend five minutes trying to do one thing before I’m interrupted with something else. And I don’t even go to an office or anywhere for a job. I’m take care of my mother and still try to write and create. Then we have a, now, 2 year old Sheltie who thinks he’s still 2 months old. The two combined don’t make for the most peaceful environment. Then there is the crazy of the world which some think is new but is really just a continuation and a cycle of what has happened and will happen again. Yeah, I really like having studied History in college, then watching people talk about politics and the world when they don’t actually understand what they are actually referring to means. Then there is college football here in the US. Then the MCU movies. And the Star Wars Acolytes series. I realized the other day I just need to know that some people enjoy just hating everything they don’t like and tearing it down and in most of those cases there’s nothing that can be done about it. All you do by trying to correct things is bring more chaos and less joy in your own life. So let it go. Go your own way. And any other songs you can think of.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 57: WISDOM 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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 56: ACCEPT 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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 55: JOY 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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 54: DAD is your inspiration.

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Dad or Father? Some say there is a difference… and there is. I had a father by accident, then a few years later I ended up with a Dad by luck. But you can’t always blame the Father for how they are. Doing ancestry research, over the past however long I’ve been doing it, I’ve seen patterns along that paternal side. I think as the years pass, as the generations pass, we’ll have more Dads. There was a time when men who became fathers didn’t always have good examples to go by, sometimes by circumstances. My, what I call, donor was born back in the 1930s… my mother wasn’t, she came along a decade or two later. His parents were farmers during the depression and basically all their time was spent surviving, and before that their parents were doing the same after the Civil War. They had a lot of kids to do a lot of work, and let’s be real… there wasn’t exactly TV back then to pass the time. They had to do something for entertainment. I feel sorry for the women of those days. It seems as though that’s all they were for… a baby at least every other year.

My Dad grew up on a farm during the same time, but he was fortunate that his grandparents at the time were at an age they could focus on nurturing their grandchildren rather than working quite as hard to survive.

Most people, when they would see us together, would think my Dad and I were biological. When had the same speech patterns, same mannerisms, and things like that. Nurture of nature is a thing, if it begins early enough.

So did you have a Dad or a Father? And did it matter which one you had in the end?

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 53: MOTIVATION 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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 52: TOMORROW is your inspiration.

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Looking ahead, is it a good thing or bad? I guess if you’re planning for retirement… yep. How about a date? Of course. Maybe you’re one of those people who live today as if there is no tomorrow. Whatever floats your boat might also sink your ship.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 51: STEPS is your inspiration.

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Steps. One at a time will get you where you’re going and where you need to be. Walk away from where you’ve been and what’s holding back.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 50: FOOD is your inspiration.

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Ahhhhh… FOOD, glorious food… so guilty and delicious. Yeah, my own take. There’s more but it’s very random. For some food is just fuel to live. Zach’s mother eats it to live because she’s allergic to MSG and reacts to soy. Try to eat a lot of easy things in the US without finding one of those in it. I cook, but after my concussion I wasn’t allowed to cook, at least until I had to take take care of mother. Now I cook every day. Before… they were worried I would burn down the kitchen or hurt myself. I only set the stove on fire once. But grabbed the salt, put it out and kept cooking. They loved it and never knew until Zach told them. Such an honest child.

But food means so many different things. For some it’s a cultural thing. Others have memories. For me there are certain foods that remind me of my grandmother, but food reminds me mostly of my step-father, the man who I called my dad since he had me since I was like 6. He introduced us to foods we didn’t even know existed. Not fancy or anything. Just not what a lady who worked as a sewer in a factory could afford to feed me, my mother, and two other grandchildren.

I made one of her staple holiday dishes this past Christmas and it turned out great. I don’t think I’d had it for over 35 years. Happy moment. I stumbled across the recipe in my mother’s recipe box, in my grandmothers handwriting. It’s likely 40 years ole A nice find.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 49: DANCE is your inspiration.

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Dance. An act or an event? Or for some the act itself could be an event. I’ve only actually been to one dance in my life and had one dance. Now that doesn’t mean I don’t or haven’t danced. You can ask my son about that. I’ll walk through and randomly start dancing to music on the television. He really loves it when I dance in the car. Especially at a red lights. But hey, a man has to take his fun where he can get it and embarrass his son when he can.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 48: PROMISE is your inspiration.

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I promise there is more promise to this promise prompt than you think at first.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 47: THRIVE is your inspiration.

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Sometimes you feel helpless but then you have those periods where you’re THRIVING baby! It doesn’t matter what that thriving is about or what area it’s in, thriving can make up for so many downs in your life. It’s made me feel like I can accomplish things. My life these days is trying to convince my mother that, yes she did do that or yes you were there when that happened. There is almost an argument every day, but I think she wants an argument. So those moments of thriving are less than they once were and now I grab hold of them whenever I can. I have four books that have been about a month away from being put out for over six months, but I just can’t get there. I’m looking forward to that thriving moment.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 46: HELPLESS is your inspiration.

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Who hasn’t felt helpless at some point? That isn’t a real question. In the end we make it through those moments and obviously somehow we turn out not to be helpless. Sure,  maybe we weren’t able to get to where we thought we needed to be… yet, but we’re still here. And that’s what matters. Still being here.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 45: SEASON is your inspiration.

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Who doesn’t like a little season? Well that’s one way to look at it. In the south we have seasons, and they are a bit more enjoyable, probably, than other parts of the country. We get the snow, but not the blizzards and rarely where it accumulates higher than a car door. Okay, so I’ve never seen that here. We get ice. Snow, the sun comes out, melts it, and overnight that snow turns into ice. Oh joy. I also like seasoning my food, another big time southern thing. The more the better. But really when I came up with SEASON it was about the seasons of life we all go through. I’m not certain which one I’m in but it sure gets cold a lot.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 44: RELIEF is your inspiration.

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Pain. Work weary. Family weary. World weary. What do you need relief from? Or is it some other relief you require? For me I need time. Or maybe I need relief from my own expectations or others expectations. There was a time I was very good at relief, but I kind of got away from that. It takes some focus and a bit of selfishness, sort of. But if we’re not selfish for ourselves, no one else will be.

 

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 43: MAINTENANCE is your inspiration.

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I began sharing some thoughts about self -maintenance but it sounded like I was feeling sorry for myself. When no one else has sympathy for you, give it to yourself. You don’t share all the details of your life with the people you know… relatives, church members, because it’s not what you do or even what I like to do. It’s my problem, not anyone else’s so why ruin their day with it? That’s where maintenance comes in.

This isn’t about cars or making certain your air conditioner is ready for the summer, although I recommend doing that. This is about self-maintenance. You need to take care of yourself; physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Okay, so maybe at least get two of those. I get maybe one a day if I’m lucky. I think that’s why I’m going insane.

 

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 42: OBLIVIOUS is your inspiration.

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As I mentioned last week, I’m a history guy, meaning being oblivious to our past and present has been an interest of mine, especially over the past decade or three. Being oblivious may sometimes be a good thing. It all depends on what who you are, what your life situation is, and what the obliviousness is about. For example, I don’t know if my neighbor is lactose intolerant… but I have my suspicions. Okay, so that’s a little trivial and easy.

Maybe as I’m writing this I’m rethinking things. Perhaps we do need to know everything that impacts our lives, from the smallest to the largest. But can we? Sometimes there are things going on behind the scenes in Washington that we don’t need to know. I don’t really want to know of the President is planning some rescue attempt of citizens at an embassy in another country. Does that impact my life? Yes, the reason for it being necessary is, but if I’ve paid attention the rest of the time then I am likely aware of the why. And it does impact me because of how those relations with that country affects how our country and economy and safety are affected. Lots of decisions we make each day depend on knowledge. Awareness.

Yep, that’s my mind at work.

 

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 41: HOPE is your inspiration.

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Last week it was tragedy. This week it’s hope. An odd thought went through this old broken brain of mine (those of you who know, know). If there was no hope, would accepting tragedy as just one more part of life be less tragic? There are places in the world like that, I think. Being an old history teacher and researcher, living in a tragic kingdom behind a curtain of stone and barbed wire… people learned to refuse the idea of hope of anything but what they had. They feared hope because it meant there was something else out there. Something out there that if hoped for it then their days would be that much worse.

Look at history. Remarkable things have occurred out of the bad. The darkest moments have ended in the brightest days… as long as we don’t forget and we keep hope.

But where I, as well as most of the people that might happen upon this site, live hope is an easy thing to have. I’m an optimist. Hope is never far from the surface for me even when it seems to have abandoned me itself.

 

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 40: TRAGEDY is your inspiration.

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Self-reflection has always been a purpose of this challenge. Giving someone a topic they can then either look inward or out into the  world, think about it, and then put it down in a poem. Tragedy is a tough one. Or is it? If you don’t want to look inward, the media gives you plenty to look at out in the world, because tragedy gets viewers and clicks. It’s a bit sad that happiness and positivity isn’t more of a focus or at least given equal time. Maybe if it were, people would feel like there is hope and good in the world.

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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Ovi Poetry Challenge 39: FAMILY is your inspiration.

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Recently I reconnected with a half-sister I have, I think she’s 2 years older. It’s probably been over fifty years since we last saw each other and it’s been a bit strange learning about each other but fun as well discovering the many things we have in common as far as our likes and dislikes. (Whoa, I gave a hint at my age.)

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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