It's "around the world with Fibs" time here at GottaBook.
A video in Spanish (from someone who speaks even faster than I do).
A great thread in Greek on Alexis Stamatis' blog.
A shout out from the Dutch Cowboys.
And I've run into Fibs in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and a handful of other languages as well. I only wish I could read them all.
Again, for those interested in Fibbing here, please feel free to put your Fibs right in the comments. If you look to the right on the blog, you'll see links to various Fib related posts (look under the headline The Fibs). There are amazing Fibs in the comments of various posts here, so I encourage you to click around. You can also find all relevant Fibbery simply by scrolling down in the blog.
Finally, in NON-Fib news, I'm thrilled to see that early GottaBook supporter David LaRochelle has been awarded the SCBWI 2005 Sid Fleischman Humor Award for his first novel Absolutely, Postively Not. Wonderful news for a great book.
And as if David wasn't talented enough as a writer and illustrator, just look what he can do to Pumpkins!
from
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all life
created.
evolution, an
appropriate word isn't it
Two FIBOS in SPANISH:
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Cual
es
la razon
de su vida
sino la espera de la
muerte silenciosa en la banca de un parque.
2. With Syllabus
yo
soy
como
las flores
en el verano
esperamos el otoño.
Edgar Altamirano
Laws
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Our land
They're the code
by which justice thrives
So impeach President Bush now.
One
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Two Fish
A red fish
And a big blue fish.
My, what a lot of fish there are!
One,
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steaming,
cup of joe
fills me with caffeine.
Delightful at the early hour!
Truth
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How to
Separate
Facts of life and death
When our leaders are not honest
Have you seen the OuLiPo versions? I quoted this one in fixious.livejournal.com's (on which you'd also commented):
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1 A-
2 t-
3 on
5 écrit
8 pareille
13 fibonaccienne
21 hypergrammatextualité ?
Also, if you have syndication info anywhere, you can syndicate this to livejournal, which has a lot of highly literary readers and communities.
Cheers,
William
I
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Story
New York Times
On Sunday Morning
Fun Article with my coffee
Oops -- corrected:
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1 t-
2 on
3 ici
5 écrit
8 pareille
13 fibonaccienne
21 hypergrammatextualité ?
Think
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haiku?
Why don't you
stretch your mind writing
fibs (not lies) in a Fib sequence.
Fibs have been featured on
Fortuna's Favor Rites. That in turn has been picked up as a poetry challenge at The Zone Gazette.
hey,
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yes, you!
are you a
mathematician?
then tell me if this is a fib.
Following is a 8-line Fib in KANNADA (language spoken in India's southern state of Karnataka). The Fib in KANNADA script can be seen on my blog.
[1] bA
[1] bA
[2] ma-tte
[3] hu-TTi bA
[5] raa-ja-ku-maa-ra
[8] ka-vi-di-de aM-dha-kaa-ra
[13] he-cci-de a-nee-ti-ya a-dha-rma-da bhA-ra
[21] ka-li-su baa nee-ti-ya shAM-ti-ya sa-ha-ne-ya sa-ra-La-te-ya maM-tra
Great concept! I think I'll add an entry to my web site (www.world-class-poetry.com) for fibs. I even wrote one myself:
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War?
Yes.
What for?
Let me guess.
Feel a need to win.
If not less, then more. Let's begin.
Fibs
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Always
Things I shouldn't tell
If I want you to believe me
Correction
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Were
Always
Said to be
Things I shouldn't tell
If I want you to believe me
Kids
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with
bunnies,
baby chicks,
and eat chocolate.
They find Easter to be great fun.
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shall pen
perfect Fibs
that are arrhythmic
and then glow with a sense of pride.
Improved version of former fib:
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Oh
Freedom!
Ecstasy
Poetry's path is
Math's delight -- Choreography!
so,
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you can
do, is the
best best you can do,
unless you try a lot harder
Bush
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gee porge
gee pudding
and pie, winked at the
girls and took away their SS
do
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really
need more forms
of poetry with
haiku-cinquain syllable counts?
Jesse W.
I’m sorry, I must be the only one who thinks this form of poetry completely stinks. It annoys me to death.
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something
about leeks
That draws me into
The flavors in my bowl of soup
jh
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sound
comes now
slowly from
what preceded it
which was the nothing that is god
god oh god of no consonants and eternal sound
A fib (syllables):
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so
I
thought when
deciding
how to move with you
among our songs and deep rhythms
0 O,
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1 is
2 likely
3 the best thing
5 that’s happened to me,
8 my mathematician-lover—
13 chalkboard wizard loves me, with my awful math background!
Poems
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six lines,
syllables
are Fibonacci
with the result called Fibs.
Poems
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six lines,
syllables
are Fibonacci
with the pleasing result called Fibs.
I
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To see
A Holly Grail
In stale poetry
Weak Fibonacci lines seek tell
Stop.
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Listen.
Watch for cars.
Drivers go too fast.
The world does not need more road kill.
Temp
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Hardly.
Bring a book.
Answer the phone but
not questions. "Sorry-filling in."
I'm
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in my
cubicle-
sized dorm room. It costs
fifty-seven hundred dollars.
Perhaps a box would be more cost and space efficient.
(Those last two lines are supposed to be one line. Oops.)
My
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Baseball
The Red Sox
World Series Winners
Johnny Damon can screw himself
Here's one I wrote in German:
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Arm
streckt sich,
Atem steigt,
elf Rufe klingen,
ein neuer Morgen strömt herauf.
And then translated into English:
An
arm
comes up,
breath in steam,
eleven chortles,
a new morning is rising fast.
Leon Blumfeld
http://worldsowide.blogspot.com/