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."

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Too Cool Even for Geeks!

[under_score]

Some of the Fibs in the comments are astounding. So what about Prime's

A short Poem with Prime syllables is Just as beautiful as the Fib. But don't hold your breath for more in this one!

... or pi's

I eat pie . Please... Blueberry Pie... It's my favorite.

For You Tool Fans

[ras_b]

I copied the following directly from this website which has an interesting analysis of tool's lateralus album.
There's a Fibonacci in Maynard's lyrics, specifically the syllables:

  black [1]
  then [1]
  white are [2]
  all I see [3]
  in my infancy [5]
  red and yellow then came to be [8]
  reaching out to me [5]
  lets me see [3]
  there is [2]
  so [1]
  much [1]
  more and [2]
  beckons me [3]
  to look through to these [5]
  infinite possibilities [8]
  as below so above and beyond I imagine [13]
  drawn outside the lines of reason [8]
  push the envelope [5]
  watch it bend [3]

  I suppose it's not actually a true Fibonacci, since it does reverse itself.

Surprised no one came up with this:

[Chapter80]

Here's a Python program written in a fib...

try:
....foo
except:
....print "Display"
....print "Fibonacci"
....count = prevcount = 1
....while prevcount <= 7000:
........print prevcount ; count, prevcount = count + prevcount, count

The way *I* read the program (pronouncing each special character except for the quotes and colons), it's a fib. AND it does something useful. It displays the first twenty Fibonacci numbers!

Pronounced:
(1) try
(1) foo
(2) ex cept
(3) print dis play
(5) print fib on ac ci
(8) count e quals prev count e quals one
(13) while prev count less than or e qual to sev en thou sand
(21) print prev count sem i col on count com ma prev count e quals count plus prev count com ma count

Now that's *real* nerdy. Geeks should be proud.