Today Ron from Ronovanwrite’s has changed our Weekly Wednesday Challenge he said : “The Sijo Prompt Challenge has come to an end for now. It’s difficult to come up with good prompt subjects and rather than try to make it to 100 and give mediocre ideas, we’re moving onto another form of poetry. And I didn’t really do it with it what I wanted to. So here we are, a new poetry form to learn about and try.”
OVI POETRY
As is the case with this blog’s prompt poems, 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.
Notice the rhyming pattern is AAAb or
THE BELLS

The bells ring out loud and so clear
Calling to all from far and near
Uniting all souls without fear
Together we can grow as one.
Bells gather the congregation
Joining in prayer the nation
Raised spirits in contemplation
Together we can grow as one.