Today’s prompt: try out a poetic form based on syllable counts. One is the shadorma.
Another 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 Un 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.
tickling delight at tip of tongue
cocktail parties are an art form
people meet exchange
in bottomless mud
sinks ever deeper can man help?
three white-haired men pull push in vain
try lassoos cords chains