Fibonacci!

Internet culture is continually amazing and fun.

A couple weeks ago, a writer named Gregory K. Pincus wrote a blog post challenging readers to write "Fibs", poems based on a mathematical progression called the Fibonacci Sequence, which would dictate the number of syllables in each line.  A Fibonacci Sequence would go like this: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.

The post was referenced last week at slashdot.org, a website delivering "news for nerds", and the idea has taken off like gangbusters.  I read about it a couple days ago on a knitting blog, of all places.  This blogger challenged readers to write fibs about knitting:

I
wish
I had
a winning
lottery ticket
I'd have all the yarn I could want
...contributed by a reader named Carey in The Knitting Curmudgeon's comments.

This morning, the whole idea is anointed with an article in The New York Times.  Check it out and try your own hand at writing a Fib or two. 

What a fun and vibrant salute to National Poetry Month...

Comments

[Anna]

This
looks
like fun.
Writing and
counting syllables
to achieve the perfect sequence.

There!
Did
I do
it the way
I was supposed to?
I may be addicted to this!

[Gregory K.]

Looks good to me, Anna.

And thanks to the blog for a library shout-out (whispered, of course!).