Shh!
Hide,
Fairies!
Hold fans high
Pretend we’re cabbage,
Think ornamental vegetable!
No more chorus line once music stops and fae-folk hide.
Slowly, as night dons its purple, starry cloak, the fae ball resumes, with pipe, fife and song.
Copyright 2013 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: A Fibonacci Poem is one in which each succeeding line is equal in syllable length to the syllable length of the preceding two lines added together, or one, one, two, three, five, eight, thirteen, twenty-one, thirty-four, etc.
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Haha!! So that’s what it is – fairy fans – very good! 😀 But if it had been cabbage – it’s the prettiest cabbage I’ve ever seen! 😉
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Thank you, it did come out nicely in the pictures.
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Thank You for admiring my water color painting !!! 🙂 *Cynthia
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My pleasure!
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Congratulations. I have nominated you for the Sunshine and Versatile Blogger Awards http://quirkybooks.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/sunshine-and-versatile-blog-awards/
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Thank you! I could use a little sunshine! 🙂 I’ll come visit soon. Warmly, Brenda
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Thanks Brenda. The dark nights can make one feel a little blue, so I guess the Sunshine is a great breakthrough. (It rhymes lol!)
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LOL, You’re a poet!
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I always used to love writing poetry and still do if I get the chance. I went to a poetry workshop once and they were talking about the correct rhyme and rhythm and I don’t use that, I just go by whatever I think sounds right but apparently that’s not always grammatically correct.
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I love to write poetry, and controlling the number of syllables can be maddening. 🙂
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Yeah! I am just not into that at all, as I feel it takes the pleasure away.
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Very cool with the “Think ornamental vegetable!” Got a laugh imagining faeries telling one another that!
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Excellent! Gave me a laugh writing it. 🙂
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so, so cute )
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Thanks!
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Beautiful.
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Thanks!
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Pretend we’re cabbage! I think that’s a line I’m just going to have to try and incorporate randomly into everyday life.
The photo if beautiful.
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LOL That really made me laugh. Thanks for commenting and making me live longer. 🙂 Warmly, Brenda
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My pleasure! Thank you for the poem. And I’m quite serious. I will give it some thought. But there are ways to randomly incorporate that in conversation – I’m sure of it!
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You’ll have to let me know if you swing it. LOL
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Promise. I’ll be sure to properly credit the author.
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Excellent! LOL
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Check out her poem, she’s fabulous, and she has two others as a bonus, including one by Robert Frost.
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I’d never heard of another poetry format with a strict syllable structure besides haiku, until I read this last night. As I am such a fan of the Haiku structure, I think I will try my hand at the Fibonacci structure! Thanks for sharing this, and also, I like the poem, and the photo you paired with it, really lends an ethereal fairy-feel to the poem! Pretty creative! 🙂
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Is it ok with you if I copy/paste your note of what a Fibonacci poem is, into the post that I’ll post my Fibonacci poem in? I’ve looked online for definitions of what it is, but none of them are as clear as yours in explaining that the sequence count goes up continually, while listing the count as clearly as you have. I intend to link to your poem as well, as I found out about this format from you 🙂
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Feel free to crib my definition. I phrased it myself, based on independently knowing the Fibonacci sequence (via hubby). I actually invented it myself, since I had never read one before, and got all set to post, then I googled to check the spelling of Fibonacci, and found I was not the first to apply the sequence to poetry, who knew! Anyway, help yourself. Link away, I would be pleased and flattered. 🙂
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I’m so happy you like the form. It’s not incredibly common, and I probably would never have realized it existed if I weren’t married to a math-obsessed man. I like the way it crescendos. I look forward to seeing yours! Warmly, Brenda
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The colours in that photo are beautiful. And the words fit the pic,perfectly 🙂
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Thank you! It looked like a magic veggie. 🙂
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When I look at nature, I am starting to “see” your little fairies’ hiding places, Brenda! I appreciate this so much, it gives me fun while walking to and from the library, along with nature hikes. The fairies could all don the different tones of fuschia, (oops, sp?) pink and purple gowns, too! I can see their lovely dancing, too. Take care, Robin
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I found my heart warmer this Thanksgiving from reading your stories and your loving way of talking about the people around you. So thank you, too. I’m so happy you are seeing fairy hiding places, too. 🙂 You gave me a giggle. Warmly, Brenda
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Brenda, I appreciate the photo and the blending of the poem, thank you for sharing it. Take care, Bill
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My pleasure, I’m glad you like it! Warm regards, Brenda
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I like your”Slowly, as night dons its purple, starry cloak, the fae ball resumes, with pipe, fife and song.”
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Thank you! I like the expanding nature of the Fibonacci poem, because it creates a momentum toward a crescendo with the last line.
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Lovely!
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Thanks!
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What fun:)
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I finally used one of my cabbage pictures. 🙂
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This answers my question why my cabbage always seem to be dancing. 😆
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🙂 That’s right, just come to me for all the answers. LOL
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VERY NICE NIKOLAUS……SINCERELY ANDREA:))BLESSED
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Thanks and blessings to you, Andrea! Warmly, Brenda
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I would not like to be a vegetable, just to hide from a few goblins
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Better a squash than squashed. LOL
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Maybe so, although I am taller than they
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Well, the fairies were the ones hiding after all. 🙂
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I guess so
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How do you do it, and on such consistent basis?
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LOL I have no idea.
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AnElephant has never heard of the Fibonacci Sequence being applied to poetry before now.
But it merely allows you to demonstrate your talent in yet another way.
And you know how AnElephant feels about magical creatures, so this is just all-round wonderful!
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I’m married to a math-obsessed person, which is how I originally heard of Fibonacci. It gave me a giggle to use a math term for my fairy tales.
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Lovely. The fairies are having a ball!
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I could just see them there. LOL
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Brilliant! I hadn’t heard about this type of poem either, so thankyou for teaching me something new as well. Beautiful picture and fantastic words to match 🙂
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Thanks, I had fun with this one.
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I love this tale!!! But of course I love anything with fairies. 🙂 whimsical and wonderful.
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Thank you!
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Drear Brenda,
This is a lovely colorful picture! Very nice – words and picture.
Elephant
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Thanks, Elephant! I loved the way the colors showed up in the photo, I don’t know why I thought of the chorus dancers in vegas, but that’s what I thought of. LOL Have a magical weekend! Brenda
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Cool! I didn’t know about this type of poem. I love to learning something new. Thanks,
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I’m so happy to share a new form with you. It’s a fun one, I like how it builds. 🙂
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Awesome! So whimsical and colorful, the picture and the words both 😀
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Thanks! I enjoyed writing it. 😀
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Love these! 🙂
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Thanks!
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