Structure

Usually I don't force my poems into any set structure, it just kind of happens. It is fun, however, to pick a rigid structure and try to tell a story or convey an emotion within it. I heard about the Fibonacci sequence and poems based on it and just had to try one. The Fibonacci sequence is like this (0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,...) The way it works is that you take the previous two numbers in the sequence and add them together to get your new number. So 1+1=2, 2+1=3, 3+2=5, etc. I heard about poems that used the sequence to create the number of syllables in each line. I thought that was a great idea and wrote a poem taking it as far as I could. The challenge was immensely entertaining. I later found out that the 'official" Fibonacci poems were shorter, like haiku, with the maximum syllable length being, I think, 5 syllables. Frankly I think my way is more fun, just how many syllables can you take it to before it becomes too unwieldy. It this poem I maxed out at 55.

About the poem itself. I love the winters here in Colorado. This is part of my drive home.