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Phi and Poetry
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:
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Inspiration Comes (Fibonacci)
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| 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
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Investors:
Apply
Phi and
Fibonacci
principles
to the
stock market |
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