First Fibonacci Poems

Facts

can

have their

own beauty,

but of themselves lack

a sense of purpose or meaning:

diamonds waiting

to be cut

and set

in

rings.

One

of

Satan's

favorite

tricks is to convince

people that he does not exist,

so they'll then conclude

that therefore

nothing

is

sin.

Fibonacci poems are based on the mathematical Fibonacci sequence in which the next number is based on the previous two number added together. The poems count syllables. We start with one syllable, add that one and what came before, (0) to get a line with one syllable, then you combine that line's count with the one of the previous line (1 +1), so the third line has two syllables. Then the next line would be 1 +2 (three syllables), the next line would five syllables (2 + 3), and so on.So you get 

One

One

Two

Three

Five

Eight ....  

you can go on, but 13 syllable, then 21 syllable gets really hard, so many poems only go as far as the eight-syllable line.

Some poems end with the longest line, some go back in the reverse direction. So you get:

One

One

Two

Three

Five

Eight

Five

Three

Two
One 

One

My first attempts used this format for my first two attempts at Fibonacci poems..

Pax et bonum