Ovi 2 (England’s Shore)

I hanker after somewhere hot
But we just at this time cannot
So making do with what we've got
We'll stay on England's shore

Yes, back in June we had some sun
and it was good for quite a run
but then rain came and stopped the fun
Here on England's shore

It would be nice with constant heat
somewhere in the thirties, sweet
but weather here cannot compete
with that on England's shore

So we wait until next year
when in the winter with a sneer
to that heat we'll disappear
from cold on England's shore

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Photo – Jempics

[For detail about ‘Ovi’ poems, see ‘Ovi 1′ from 21st August]

Ovi 1

Long I've written as a poet
penned verse like this and didn't know it
wish I had as I would covet
an Ovi of my own

But now I realise what they're called
as over coals I have been hauled
and so here is (as never stalled)
an Ovi of my own

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[‘Ovi’ is syllabic metre poetry from India originating in the Marathi language. It’s been used in written form since the 13th century, but the women’s ‘Ovee/Ovi’ predates the literary form by at least 100 years. Ovi are traditionally lyrical folk songs expressing love, social irony and heroic events. They are written in 4-line stanzas (as few as one and as many as you like), have 8 syllables or less per line and have a rhyming sequence of AAAb, CCCd, EEEf etc. Nothing in one stanza must rhyme with the first three lines with anything in viOa previous stanza. The fourth line of each stands on its own but may rhyme with the fourth in a previous stanza and have an element of continuity].

Many thanks to Frank Hubeny for introducing me to this.