Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry

Gregory K. writes "April is National Poetry Month (and, it turns out, Math Awareness Month), and on my blog, I decided to get people writing poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence. The poems are six lines, 20 syllables long with the syllable pattern 1/1/2/3/5/8, though they can go longer, obviously. I've been calling 'em Fibs, and people have been writing them on pop culture, politics, math, and more."

Comments

First Post!

[afaik_ianal]

First
Post!
I bet
nobody
can beat me to it
with a Fibonacci poem!

Re:First Post!

[abscissa]

Some
troll
you are.
First posting
is such a bad thing
But, I will say, yours was funny.

Re:First Post!

[afaik_ianal]

I
hope
the mods
can have fun,
or I'll get modded
as a troll for my "first post" gag

Re:First Post!

[Anonymous Coward]

Let me guess... You're a subscriber and you were working on it fervently for the last 10 minutes?

Re:First Post!

[Tragamor]

It is only a pity that 23 is not part of the Fibonnacci sequence.

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55.....

Re:Wasting time

[gameforge]

(lets try that again, w/out HTML formatting hehe)

I
thought
Slashdot
Readers had
More important things
To write about; but I was wrong.

Obligatory...

[Perdo]

aich
tee
tee pee
colon slash slash
slash dot dot org poem

I
Wait
For The
Beowulf Hot
Natalie Grits Goatse
Signal Eleven Penis Bird

Poem

[neoshroom]

Math,
Makes,
My head,
Quake with pain.
Writing a poem based
On Fibonacci does the same.

Re:Poem

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it just me, or are all these fibs a little Shatneresque?

Damn

[abscissa]

Damn!
This
Will be
Tough for the
Mods, if they count all
the syllables in every post!

to 21

[fithmo]

deb
i
compiz
wtf
compile mother bitch
and something about the seasons
no, wait, i am probably thinking about haiku
damn this package! it has me all confused to the point that i can't even write a poem.

Re:Mandatory (with HTML this time)

[rewinn]

Well
I
For One
Will Welcome
(It's Mandatory)
Our Fibonacci Overlords!

Re:Tool- Lateralus already does this.

[fithmo]

"What took Tool so long?"

Being born?

Re:Too Cool Even for Geeks!

[stymyx]

That would be great, if PI were 3.1315...

Re:Tool - Lateralus

[starwed]

"doesn't use all twelve tones of the chromatic scale as has been encouraged since Schoenberg"

But on the other hand, I actually enjoy listening to Tool.

Fibspam

[EmagGeek]

Cheap
Drugs
Call Now
We're Waiting
Do Not Hesitate
Lincoln Building Tether Pineapple Goat

Must... stop... fibbing

[mrogers]

Unfortunately no matter what the subject matter, the poems sound like they're being spoken by a superhero through gritted teeth.

Must...
stop...
fibbing!
Got to get...
back to my haikus!
So many syllables... wasted!

A Presidential Fib.

[m487396]

Bush
said
that the
weapons of
mass distruction in
Iraq posed an imminent threat.

Re:Tool - Lateralus

[CRCulver]

There is only one rule about music, and it's a subjective rule. That rule is that the music must sound good.

No, the only rule about music is that it must be complex, not that it has to sound good or bad. I'll repeat Xenakis' statement from Musiques formelles:

Le son beau ou laid n'a pais de sens, ni la musiqe qui en découle; la quantité d'intelligence portée par les sonorités doit être le vrai critère de validité de telle ou telle musique.

(The concept of "beautiful" or "ugly" sound makes no sense, nor does music written thereby; the amount of information carried by the sound is therefore the only true criterion for the validity of this or that music.)

Re:Too Cool Even for Geeks!

[under_score]

Imagine my chagrin when about 20 minutes later, lying in bed, I realized that not only am I not a cool geek, I'm stupid too! I can't believe I missed that. Must be the fact of being awake at 3:15am in my time zone and trying to write matematical poetry. Really it's the best time to do it, but it's also a pretty bad time to do it too :-)

Conformity

[Limbo Socrates]

Ugh.
Rules.
Structure.
Makes me wince.
Perhaps I should try...
Running around naked with my hair on fire screaming, "ANARCHY! ANARCHY! Take that Fibonacci, you wiper of other peoples bottoms! go away and I shall taunt you no more!"

SPAM Filters Blocking Poetry

[refriedchicken]

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Bob
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Re:Fibonacci Sequence Memonics

[cpeikert]

Eight and five will make eleven.

Really?

Another try...

[Chapter80]

OK, now I am addicted.

One.
One.
Then Two.
Three is next.
Five, of course, comes next.
Then Eight. It's getting hard to do.
Next is 1D. We're counting in Hex - this is slashdot!

Gotta love the surprise ending!

Re:oblig too

[Arthur B.]

html formatting bug..
In soviet Russia
fibs poems
always
write
you!

another one

[Anonymous Coward]

young
geeks
waxing
pathetic
math and poetry
go outside, it's a fine spring day

Re:Oh no...

[vandon]

We
Get
Signal
All your base
Are belong to us
Somebody set up us the bomb.

Ode to the slashdot poet.

[Chapter80]

Po-
et-
ry real-
ly should nev-
er be written ex-
clusively by geeks on a for-
um such as slashdot. They tend to really sound horrib-

Starting with a different number

[Flyboy Connor]

You can start Fibonacci sequences with a different number.

Here's a fib that starts with zero:

Last one?

[Chapter80]

Next Challenge, a fib that's a rectangle.

Deutsch
through
Balkans
Germany
UKandUS
WWIcrap

That one was really tough to have it make any sense.