Tetractys*
His Sonnet
the
bent bard
shepherds rhyme,
spilling desires
of love into smooth sounding poetry
Stranded
fear
stifles
creative
minds like anchors—
marooned, longing for the freedom to sail
*Tetractys—a
verse form Ray Stebbing based on a classical mathematics
sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 10 syllables
Fibonacci*
Forest Retreat
green
moss
carpet--
softness stretched
beneath sleeping fawns
*Fibonacci—also
known as Leonardo of Pisa (c.1175 - c.1240), was born in Pisa,
Italy. He is renowned as a mathematician. His mathematical
concept has been applied to the Fibonacci poetry form: the
syllables of each poetry line follow the Fibonacci sequence of
numbers where the next number is the sum of the previous two: 1,
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ...
