A Fibonacci Poem Of Love And Hate

    I would like to thank Montovani for the idea of writing a poem in this format.  I read his poem, then did a little research on what a fibonacci sequence is before writing this.

    I think anyone who's seen 'The Da Vinci Code' will remember the main character talking about the fibonacci sequence.  I did a little checking about that idea, and found that it's pretty simple.  The first number is a zero or a one, the second is then a one, the third the sum of the previous two, the fourth the sum of the previous two, and so on.  So in writing a poem, the first line would have a syllable count of one, the second line also one syllable, then the third line two syllables, the fourth three, the fifth line five,,,, you get the idea.  So I decided to write a fibonacci poem with eight lines in it, meaning the eighth line would have thirteen syllables.  But then I thought of reversing it, so the ninth line would have thirteen syllables, and count down from there the same way I counted up in the fibonacci sequence.  This is the result of my 'experiment'.

A Fibonacci Poem Of Love And Hate

Love
Hate
Feelings
People have
Seems it’s all we know
Yet there is so much more, although
What would my life be, if it weren’t for love filling it?
Without this in my life, does this mean that I’m unfit?
Could I be complete while empty?
No, I’d be edgy
So alone
A crone
Cold
Old

Jim Dorrell
12/11/10