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

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.

Re:Too Cool Even for Geeks!

[stymyx]

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

Re:nice!

[archeopterix]

Yeah.
Right.
Breaking
A sentence
Into syllables
Does not a poem make - how pointless

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.

Damn

[abscissa]

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

Fibonacci

[Zog The Undeniable]

Did
You
Know That
The Sequence
Originally
Described The Humping Of Rabbits?

Re:Mandatory (with HTML this time)

[rewinn]

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

Cutting it off at the pass

[BinaryOpty]

Before anyone else does a "OMG Tool did it first!!" and then someone responds to them with "No, [insert older reference here] did it first!", the blog author acknowledges this in his post (linked to in the first, longer link). I quote:

and, as much as I'd like to say I invented a new form of poetry, these sequences have been part of various poetic structures since before Fibonacci's time.

As such, now anyone who brings up the Tool/etc thing in such a way that they're implying the blog author is claiming credit for inventing this can be marked a troll.

Palindrome version

[Chapter80]

Palindrome version. (It's early, best I could do...)

God,
all!
It's fib,
version A.
Edit idea...
No! Is rev B, if still a dog.

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.

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:Oh no...

[vandon]

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