Fib Fever Infects AlienQueen
I must admit I’m hooked! I’m a Fibber. I’ve caught the Fib Fever!
Ever since I heard about the Less Is More ~ Micro-Flash Contest being sponsored by FlashQuake, and clicked on the link there to Gregory K. Pincus’ blog, Gottabook, I’ve been intrigued and challenged.
Being a number-cruncher for years, I was immediately fascinated with the concept of combining math with poetry. Gregory K. deemed his new, experimental form poetry the Fib. Fibs resemble haiku, but their format is based on the Fibonacci Sequence, a numeric sequence repeated in nature, and once recently mentioned in the recent movie, The Di Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard, and staring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou.
The format rules, using this sequence, are simple:
Each poem is six lines long and is comprised of 20 syllables, with a syllable per line count of 1/1/2/3/5/8.
Gregory K.’s example of a standard Fib is:
One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.
And fibs are popping up on the web, in blogs all around the world. They’re quick, slick, and unique, though not necessarily as easy as they look.
Try it out. But I warn you, Fibbing is Very Addictive!!!!!!
Now that I’m Fibbing, I can’t seem to stop!
Oh, and there’s a neat site online that helps with syllable counting. I use it all the time, instead of relying on my, often addled, brain cells when I’m tallying syllables in my newly created fib. This fabulous little gem of a site is simply, The Syllable Counter.
Another site I’ve found handy that I’ll pass along is Thesaurus.com.
I finding my Fibs tend to have a morbid bent. What’d you expect from an avid horror lover?
Enough said, go Fib! Catch Fib Fever.
