An article in the New York Times April 14, 2006 talks about a guy who asked for Fibonacci poetry submissions to his GottaBook blog. He was inundated with submissions.

Fibonacci refers to Fibonacci numbers (those of you who have read The DaVinci Code have heard of them.)

Fibonacci poetry then must follow the sequence 1,1,2,3,5,8. That is 6 lines with syllables in each that follow the sequence. Here’s the Google search on Fib poetry.

I thought I’d give it a go:

This
new
style of
poetry,
better than haiku?
Just different and int’resting.

So what do you think of my first attempt? Am I allowed to contract a syllable? Pronounce “different” in 2 syllables and the last line could be

Just diff’rent and interesting.

maryt