The art and beauty of fibonacci poetry

[Julie]

One 
Small, 
Precise, 
Poetic, 
Spiraling mixture: 
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

by Gregory K Pincus

syllables and structure

line 1 - 1 syllable

line 2 - 1 syllable

line 3 - 2

line 4 - 3 

line 5 - 5

line 6 - 8

mirrored fibonacci

as above, so below eg

We Are

We

are

light worlds

magnetised

in movement always

planets spin forth and blaze their love

they will meet one day

knowing space

for all

is

God

Julie

August 2026

Poetry Foundation

Gregory K. Pincus wasn’t expecting to start a movement when he posted this Fib—his very first—to his blog last year. The Los Angeles writer, volunteer librarian, and dad was simply commemorating the opening of National Poetry Month

Pincus came up with Fibs while pondering a haiku writing exercise. A confessed math geek, he sought a form that offered added precision and was intrigued by Fibonacci numbers. In nature, the sequence is evident in the spirals of nautilus shells, waves, pinecones, and sunflower seeds, to name a few. The numbers have also popped up in all kinds of creative works since even before the birth of the mathematician for which the progression was named.