Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry

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Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday April 6, 2006 @07:17PM from the nerdy-haiku dept.

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."

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First Post! by afaik_ianal · 2006-04-06 19:18 · Score: 5, Funny

First
Post!
I bet
nobody
can beat me to it
with a Fibonacci poem!
1. Re:First Post! by abscissa · 2006-04-06 19:22 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Some
  troll
  you are.
  First posting
  is such a bad thing
  But, I will say, yours was funny.
2. Re:First Post! by afaik_ianal · 2006-04-06 19:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I
  hope
  the mods
  can have fun,
  or I'll get modded
  as a troll for my "first post" gag
Obligatory... by Perdo · 2006-04-06 19:39 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Poem by neoshroom · 2006-04-06 19:45 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
1. Re:Poem by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-07 00:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Is it just me, or are all these fibs a little Shatneresque?
Damn by abscissa · 2006-04-06 19:50 · Score: 5, Funny

Damn!
This
Will be
Tough for the
Mods, if they count all
the syllables in every post!
to 21 by fithmo · 2006-04-06 19:58 · Score: 3, Funny

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) by rewinn · 2006-04-06 19:59 · Score: 5, Funny

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

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--- Attorneys Assisting Citizen-Soldiers & Families -
Re:Tool- Lateralus already does this. by fithmo · 2006-04-06 20:04 · Score: 3, Funny

"What took Tool so long?"

Being born?
Re:Too Cool Even for Geeks! by stymyx · 2006-04-06 20:12 · Score: 5, Funny

That would be great, if PI were 3.1315...
Must... stop... fibbing by mrogers · 2006-04-06 23:28 · Score: 4, Funny

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!
Conformity by Limbo+Socrates · 2006-04-07 01:09 · Score: 4, Funny

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!"
Another try... by Chapter80 · 2006-04-07 01:32 · Score: 5, Funny

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 by Arthur+B. · 2006-04-07 02:01 · Score: 3, Funny

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

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\u262D = \u5350
Re:Oh no... by vandon · 2006-04-07 03:46 · Score: 5, Funny

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