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Poetry composition using Fibonacci and Phi

May 3, 2012 by Gary Meisner 8 Comments

 

Phi is not just the inspiration for art, architecture and design, but for poetry as well.  Some poets use Fibonacci numbers in the construction of poetry.  Others write poetry about phi itself.  And while not exactly poetry per se, you wordsmiths might also enjoy the following anagrams:

“The Golden Ratio” has the same letters as “The God Relation.”

“The Golden Section” has the same letters as “Is to encode length.”

“Golden Mean” has the same letters as “demon angel!”

Now on to the poetry…

Fibonacci style is a non-rhyming style that uses Fibonacci numbers in the syllable count: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

The poem should have a minimum of six lines, but could have more. The difficulty increases for each line, as each line has the number of syllables matching the next Fibonacci number, as shown in the following example:

 

 

Inspiration Comes (Fibonacci)

1 I
1 am
2 sitting
3 quietly,
5 listening for the
8 quiet noises in the darkness,
13 ghostly images flying between the tall pine trees,
21

illusion created by the mind, made by shadows, the brain playing tricks on itself.

34

It sits there, the raven, black as night, looking at me with its dark eyes in the dark night. Inspiration comes. Words form in my head. Evermore.

-Jim T. Henriksen

 


You
write
such sense,
Benjamin,
inspirational,
your poems are teaching the romance
of golden numbers fitting seamlessly in all things,
relationships between us and our precious environment reflecting love and life.

 

 

Chilliwoman


Golden

One one two, three five eight
Sounds so simple, nothing great
Thirteen, twenty-one, thirty-four
The hinges creak on an opening door
A repeating patter of the masters hand
Signing his work, the universal plan
Learn to look, the pattern’s plain to see
In the smile you flash, the dance of the honeybee
In the spirals of the pine cone and little acorn cap
In spiral arm galaxies and the ocean’s wave whitecap
In the swirl of the seashell, the air vortex of a wing
The hurricane’s eye and a thousand unseen things
Welcome to the mystery of the Greek letter phi
The measurement of beauty to the human eye
The golden ratio, one point six one eight
One, One, Two; Three, Five Eight

-Benjamin Moon

Note that the shortest line is the 6th, the longest is the 10th and the poem is 16 lines long.
If divided by two, this is a 3, 5, 8 relationship.


Aurea Mediocritas!

1.618 ad infinitum!
Never repeating, always intriguing
Fibonacci born; phi!

Golden Section behold!
Creation sequence, nature’s frequence
Mathematical phenomena; phi!

Heaven’s divine proportion!
Ancient mystery, living history
Infinite and eternal; phi!

-John Sarber

I think …

I think that I shall never see
A constant lovelier than Φ.
a+b is to a as a to b,
a ratio, gold, in harmony.

Its digits start: 1.618…,
but never ends; it is too great.
Φ is a constant, don’t despair
that it’s writ infinite; it doesn’t care.

And Φ is finite, let me explain:
’tis less than 2, no cause for pain.
It spirals onward, plain to see.
It was Mark Barr[1] who called it Φ.

Author unknown. Contributed by Comet.

Word Crunching

I

wrote

a poem

on a page

but then each line grew

To the word sum of the previous two

until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency

because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency.

-Brian Bilston

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Comments

  1. L.A says

    November 19, 2013 at 2:24 am

    And yet none of the best poems employ the Golden Ratio, in my opinion.

    Reply
  2. reff says

    September 22, 2014 at 12:36 pm

    omg lol youre so right!!

    Reply
  3. Gordon says

    July 21, 2015 at 6:47 am

    Oh
    I
    will
    reply
    to LA.
    All poems are beauty,
    That, you must truly consider.
    Believe that, if you are a friend of the universe.
    For you to utter anything else about the subject would be absurd, my lost friend.
    You are absolutely and undeniably a quotient of it all, ,and part of a mathematical and beautiful universe.

    Reply
  4. Derek Smith says

    May 31, 2018 at 6:39 am

    I found this on the web, the author didn’t leave a name, i thought it was funny and accurate!

    I am a ratio noticed by few,
    A pyramid, a flower, in math and in you,
    A golden mediocrity in planets and space.
    Fibbonicci’s forty in my fifteenth place,
    Though quite small, i stretch to infinity,
    The ancient Greeks raised me up to divinity.
    Fraternities exploit me without knowing my mean-ing,
    Some people maintain i have a mystical leaning.

    Reply
  5. John Sarber says

    January 17, 2022 at 4:03 pm

    The poems do employ the Golden Ratio by paying respect and love to phi and Fibonacci.

    Reply
    • Gary B Meisner says

      January 26, 2022 at 7:59 am

      I think we need to distinguish between poems written to ABOUT the golden ratio/ Fibonacci sequence versus poems that that actually use it in their composition, structure, meter, etc. A poem that does both though would be golden!

      Reply
  6. Dr.R.Chandramohan says

    January 5, 2023 at 9:12 pm

    Awesome. Nature is not erratic and is never full of Chaos. It has always a rule or a law may be emphirical and filled with symmetry. Wise are those who understood the symmetry in every field. Self assembly is natures choice and its a coincidence that the golden ratio is found in beautiful poetry as they are self generated in a lonely solitary place when they are in.unison with nature. So is love.

    Reply
    • Gary B Meisner says

      January 14, 2023 at 9:38 am

      And yet poems do not “self assemble” themselves do they? They are composed of letters and words that must first be conceived in the mind, and that express thought and purpose.

      If you truly understand our nature, you find that DNA is no different. It is not full of chaos, nor could it realistically self assemble. It is made of letters (A,T,C and G) and words within our DNA that express thought and purpose to create the complex machinery of life.

      Here’s a video I compiled that expresses this more clearly:

      Reply

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