Friday, April 22, 2011

A Poem About. . . Math?

I wrote this poem in Fibonacci sequence. Happy math!


                                                          Fibonacci’s Secret

One
one
two, it
starts small but
grows large, like always. 
Numbers line up like toy soldiers
dancing rows down the page, a scramble of leaf petals
and multiplying rabbits- his complex world simplified to a ratio.  He loves
to wrap his mind around like a skein of yarn, twisting over the digits as if in a restless sleep.  The lucky son of Bonacio,
blessed from birth as the genius of Pisa.  Numbers move, fluid as melting ice in spring.
Raucous crowds pass beneath his bedroom window, but they
don’t hear him whisper:  “Only I
know the formula
for the true
secret
of
life.”

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