Shining
Sisters
Abyssal Night.
Alcyone casts starlight.
Glazed eyes seared with brilliance,
refuse to look down into the tombless grave.
Daughters of the Pleiades suddenly hide in the merciful cry of the canopy.
Tear drenching pain is buried with the corpse and rain as a spirit ascends beyond the stars,sailing into Heaven's Mystery.

08/08/2009

Author's Note: Time for a challenge! At least to myself. This is my first attempt at Fibonacci poetry.I choose words instead of syllables, but later on I plan to explore 6 lined and syllables instead of words. Fibonacci poetry is a literary form based on the Fibonacci number sequence. The sequence begins like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21. In order to find the next number in the sequence, you add the two preceding numbers. The sum of these two is the next number, which then is added to the one before it to get to the next number, and so on. This is how it works: 1 + 0 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 2 + 1 = 3 3 + 2 = 5 5 + 3 = 8 8 + 5 = 13 13 + 8 = 21 etc. The Fibonacci sequence appears often in nature as the underlying form of growing patterns. For example, conch shells and sunflowers follow the pattern as they grow in a spiral formation that increases as it moves outward. Fibonacci poems can embody the number sequence in two ways, either in numbers of syllables or in numbers of words. Some people write their poems so that each line contains the number of words of its place in the sequence, and some use the sequence to determine the number of syllables in each line. Both methods create very visual poems that display this naturally occurring growth pattern on the page (or screen). So far, the writing of Fibonacci poems seems to be more popular among mathematicians than among poets. There are other mathematical poetry forms that can create interesting results, like the Oulipo school where writers use complicated constraints and algorithms to generate creative writing. There are several Web sites dedicated to Fibonacci poetry where people post the poems they write; one such site is Fibetry.com. The math/art journal Hyperseeing featured an article about Fibonacci poetry in its April 2007 issue. *And what's the point, you might ask? It is good for brain excercise and development. It's a good exercise to encourage one to choose words that really matter, words that have to try and carry as much weight and information as possible.It is a challenge!