…in which we tackle the short, very tautly structured syllabic forms of either the shadorma or the Fib. We have worked on shadorma in my creative writing Zoom workshops and I cannot say that I am terribly enamoured. The Fib, however, has a basis in natural science, not in alternative facts. Though imagination does enter into it. So I chose the second (optional) prompt for today’s flexing of the poetry writing muscles.
Our second syllabic form is much more forthright about its recent origins. Like the shadorma, the Fib is a six-line form. But now, the syllable count is based off the Fibonacci sequence of 1/1/2/3/5/8. You can link multiple Fibs together into a multi-stanza poem, or even start going backwards after your first six lines, with syllable counts of 8/5/3/2/1/1. Perhaps you remember the Fibonacci sequence from math or science class – or even from nature walks. Lots of things in the natural world hew to the sequence – like pinecones and flower petals. And now your poems can, too.
Napowrimo.net, Day 7, 2021
The Fibonacci (Spring) Sequence in Dowra One branch unfurls catkin's fuzz that defies hail stone snow flurry, sleet, overnight frost Unlike nipped tulips that bend faces down to the ground stamina tested this Spring Spring coils ready to slither like the sly serpent out, around, following the sun
Happy poetry writing! Despite a think layer of snow on the ground yesterday at dawn, and hail pellets and sleety rain drops, it all melted away by 10am. But the daffodils and tulips have taken a bit of a battering.
Sojourning Smith 
This is a lovely form! It looks beautiful on the screen. I’m thinking of writing a fib, too. My garden is full of them!
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The poem form is one of those where the line creates the overall effect.
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