| Blog Entry - Monday, April 17th, 2006 | Add / Read (3) |
As long-time readers know, Rocky and I have had a long-running Haiku relationship. Reading today's NYTimes, I saw not one, but two articles that link to a fun kind of related poetic form that sparked some interest in my brain: the Fib, which refers to a poem that uses the Fibonacci sequence to determine its syllables.
Apparently, blogger, poet, and children's book writer Gregory K. Pincus started the current Fib craze with a post about his use of the the Fib as a writing exercise. It happens to have sprung to even more widespread popularity thanks to a post on Slashdot.org. And so, in honor of the intersection of National Poetry Month (something we celebrated quite late around here last year) and Mathematics Awareness Month, here's my post linking you all to the fun. :-)
According to the NYTimes, here's how the Fibonacci sequence (mathematicians should feel free to elaborate) and the Fib form work:
The Fibonacci progression is a mathematical formula that starts with 0 and 1 and then continues to add numbers that are equal to the sum of the previous two numbers. Thus, the first seven numbers in the sequence are: 0-1-1-2-3-5-8.
To write a Fib, a more complicated version of the classic, highly constrained haiku, the poet composes a six-line poem that has the correct number of syllables in each line corresponding to each digit in the sequence. (The real first line of each Fib is silence.)
So... here's my first crack at a Fib:
Crack
Whoosh
The ball
Flies over
His outstreched glove. And
Suddenly, the game is back on.
(hadn't talked much about the starting
baseball season, but that doesn't mean I haven't been paying attention!)
Must get a newsletter out now, but more
to follow --
PS - Hope everyone who celebrates it had
a happy Easter. My weekend was filled with family and friends as I visited
with my god-daughter, went to birthday parties, colored and hunted Easter
eggs, cooked and ate, and just had a busy but happy weekend. I hope you
did too.
Author: Libby
Posted at: 09:43:35 AM
