Word-a-philes everywhere you need to check out this new poetic craze that’s sweeping the nation - Fibbing. A Fib - conceived by my pal Gregory K. - is a poem based on a fibonacci sequence, let’s call it a 21st century haiku with syllable sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. It’s precise. It’s addictive. It’s fun….everybody’s doing it.
Come on, it’s just a little fib….
A
play
may daunt
A novel
blocked, oh the horrors!
but so simple, one little fib
How fun!
Here’s what I came up with:
No.
Don’t.
Please don’t.
Don’t say it.
That thing you told me?
Now I’m a bit afraid of you.
It’s a great form– the staccatto opening lines, building to a final gush of language.
My favorite artifical form is the sestina
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina)
where you use six words in rotating order as the last word in each line. Apparently it goes back to the 12th century. I love this example by Elizabeth Bishop:
http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/03/ahead/sestina.html
Which I think is just lovely.
Thanks Julia.
Bryan D