Another Fibonacci Poem: 1.618
By S M Chen, posted 9-8-2016 by D Kovacs
Here is the first response to my challenge to send me more Fibonacci poems! Thank you, Sam Chen! He made it all the way to 55 syllables–anybody care to try to beat that? Whether you do or not, do send me yours at artseditor@atoday.com. DLK
A Fibonacci poem, in which the # of syllables per line = the sum of the # of syllables in the 2 preceding lines.
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Who
would
have thought
that one man
would be inspired to
come up with a numerical
sequence that depicts so many things found in nature
such as leaf arrangement in plants, pattern of florets of a flower, bracts of pinecones,
spirals of seashells and whorls of galaxies and hurricanes? This Golden Ratio, symbol for which is ‘phi,’ one point six one eight, is a
fundamental characteristic of the universe. Can one, by searching, find the divine? The question vexed Job, but Fibonacci, if he did not, may have come close, for has it not been said that nature is God’s second book?
photo from Pixabay; public domain
S M Chen lives and writes in California.
I didn’t know that bit about the symbol being phi, or 1.618–which is somewhere near half of pi. See what you learn on this site? 🙂
I have you to thank for posting ‘Cosmos,’ a prior Fibonacci poem, a charming group effort. In trying to come up with something and reach 55 syllables – the next step in the increasingly daunting process – I was forced (not that I’m complaining) to learn more about the sequence. Please do continue to challenge readers; helps keep the synapses firing.
Oh my, there are books and books of Fibonacci poetry … just search in Amazon. There seems little interest in creating the Fibonacci poem with the most lines. Rather, it is something of a discipline like Haiku, and as such, the collection often has the same number of lines for each poem.
Very nice!
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