a
flaw
sleeps in
the framework
creaking above you
while a minor tilt tilts some more
amid relentless shuddering of rusted spines
the geometry of denial can no longer contain the pandemonium
Fibonacci, 1-1-2-3-5-8-13-21
The form, according to Robert Lee Brewer, was developed by Gregory K. Pincus in 2006 based on the mathematical Fibonacci sequence.
“There are variations where the Fibonacci expands even further with each line, but to understand how to accomplish this, you need to understand the Fibonacci math sequence of starting with 0 and 1 and then adding the last two numbers together to add to infinity.
0+1=1
1+1=2
1+2=3
2+3=5
3+5=8
5+8=13
8+13=21
13+21=34
and so on and so forth…”
Since 21 syllables or more are increasingly unwieldy, one can use other variations such as a Fibonacci poem that ascend and descend in syllables: 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 8 – 8 – 5 – 3 -2 – 1 – 1
wow!
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🙂
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The last line is particularly brilliant!
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I meant the last TWO lines. ☺
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thanks much. 🙂 🙂
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☺😁
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Is a bit like : it is as strong as its weakest link…Very good, food for the mind! Good photo to illustrate the poem too.
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thanks…the weak link determines the destiny, indeed…
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This is really, really good, Douglas – the layers of structure – within, without, and a photo to boot. In Swahili they have a word for a master craftsman – ‘fundi’. I think that’s you. You know how to use form to make the component parts sing beyond their boundary limitations. There’s something quantum physics-ish here.
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thanks for the kind words. 🙂 the quantum is always lurking in language…
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Brilliant way of putting it. A lot of people don’t know this though 🙂
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This is alchemy. Brilliant.
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thanks…maybe it’s time to pull out the old chemistry set. 😉
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Wow!
I’m impressed by the form, but that last line is brilliant!
(And I think Ethel would appreciate it, too.) 😉
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🙂
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Brilliant, I like the increasing complexity the sequence allows.
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yeah…some day maybe one that ends with 55 syllables. 🙂
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That may be pushing form a little too far 😉
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i’ve been known to be too pushy some times. 😉
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Occasionally, that is a necessity for progress 😉
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Well done. Thanks, too, for the explanation.
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thanks. it is one of those structures that if one doesn’t point it out the details, the reader wouldn’t be aware that a particular form was being used. 😉
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Your poem is brilliant. I love it. The form is based on the Fibonacci sequence––that’s so clever. 🙂
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when i stumbled upon the form, i immediately took a liking to it…don’t know if the sequence has a particular effect under the surface of the poem, but i like to think it does. 🙂
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Thank you for introducing me to this form.
I think it’s great, that the intensity of the words increases with the sequence, while seeming to describe the complexity inherent in the sequence.
Well done.
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thanks…i found that engaging the need to have a sizable number of syllables in a particular line can focus the mind on what is trying to be said as engaging the need for only a few syllables in a line (e.g. haiku).
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fascinating …
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🙂 🙂
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Oh my word! Gorgeous poem. Bit of a show off there with that complicated formula, eh? 😉 😉 😉 You amaze me…
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and for my next trick, i will need a unicycle, a pitcher of water and volunteer from the audience. 😉
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A Fibonacci poem! What a great idea. The poem was lovely too.
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Thanks 🙂
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