The Fibonacci Poem

Gregory K. Pincus founded Fibonacci poetry (The Fib) in 2007. It’s a six-line poem that follows the Fibonacci sequence of plus one extra syllable for each line so that the number of syllables in each line equals the total number of syllables in the preceding two lines.

In a mathematical form, it looks like this: 1/1/2/3/5/8.

I’m working through Robert Lee Brewer’s “Smash Poetry Journal.” * 

Today’s challenge was to carry the Fib further and write a poem of 8 lines, which finishes with the last line being fifty-five syllables long. I’ve enjoyed writing several poems using his book but was tempted to skip this page!

The mathematical form for this is 1/1/2/3/5/8/13/21/34/55.

However, I persevered, and I think I got it right. Please feel free to count the syllables and let me know if I slipped up anywhere. (A sneaky way to gain extra read time there).

I further challenged myself to write it as a continuous sentence. My apologies to editors everywhere.

Here goes.

The Big Fib

The

prompt

today

was to write

a longer poem

using the Fibonacci style

which adds one more syllable to each line that’s written

so that by the time you’ve written the tenth line, you will have a line that has fifty-five

syllables in total in a sequence of an elaborate poetic style that has driven you slightly insane trying to figure

it out and leaves you wondering why you ever made a pact with yourself to do this crazy thing in the first place and what idiotic kind of poem you will end up with when all is said and done — tell me, how did I do?

’Til next time — remember you are loved by the One who created you in His image.

~ Lynne

This post was originally published in Writer’s Blokke on Medium.

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Research for this article included the original Fib by Gregory K. Pincus.

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