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Around and Around | a fib poem

I wrote my poem, Around and Around for the W3 Prompt. Hosted by David, The Skeptics Kaddish.
The Poet of the Week, the illustrious D. Avery, challenges us to write a Fib.

What is a fib? I don’t have a clue (and never told one in my life)🤞

My poem, Around and Around is the first fib I’ve ever written. 😵‍💫

Around and Around

Spiral Staircase | Digital pencil sketch©️Lesley Scoble
Round
Round
Around 
and around
Spiralling downward
To the dreaded dark dank dungeon.


Lesley Scoble, June 2024

Time-lapse video (20 secs) of sketching the spiral staircase

Some spiral snaps…

I enjoy a wander down a castle’s stone spiral stairs.

Castle stairway | Selfie photo©️Lesley Scoble

This photograph below makes me think of the shutter of my camera lens.

I like the little green plants that are growing on these old spiral steps.

…and just to bring us up to date, here are a couple of modern day spiral staircases… and a pastry I ate this morning. I’m noticing spirals everywhere!

The Fib

The Fib poem is the creation of Gregory K. Pincus and is based on the Fibonacci Sequence. To learn more about the fib poetry form and Deanna’s Prompt Guidlelines click below.

Deanna’s Prompt Guidelines here

Deanna’s prompt guidelines

The Fibonacci Sequence is the series of numbers: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, …

This sequence gives the Golden Ratio, or divine proportion, seen in nature, art, and architecture.

  • FORM: Compose a ‘Fib’ poem (created by Gregory K. Pincus), which is a six-line poem of 1,1,2,3,5,8 syllables). 

VARIATIONS:

1.  Write as few or as many lines as you wish, as long as your syllable count is based upon the Fibonacci Sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, etc.).

2. You may write more than one stanza, repeating the amount of lines of your first stanza. 

THEME: Write about a spiral; spiral shapes in nature or art, or perhaps a more figurative or metaphorical spiral.

Around and Around | fib poem and graphics©️Lesley Scoble

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you, Deanna for putting my head in a spiral with your fascinating prompt.
Thank you, David for hosting your motivating W3 We’ave Weekly Poetry Prompt.

Post Script

I’ve had a play and created a spiral animation just for fun! Enjoy being hypnotised. 😵‍💫

Lesley lives in the City of London Square Mile. An artist, actor and sculptor (her first ceramic sculpture won the V&A inspired by… Award). Scenic artist & book illustrator, playwright (her musical play, Rapscallion performed in inner city schools and theatre school); TV dancer; Animator and illustrator for TV production. Set up Pinecone Studios Ltd and IIMSI Ltd drama and filmmaking workshops in London – producing award-winning films made by children.

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50 responses to “Around and Around | a fib poem”

  1. Have you been up the Monument at London Bridge, the steps are like that there….! And a pain au raison my favourite – and good to see the spiral in words, I had only said to David I wonder if someone would do this – I wanted to see it – wonderful 💞

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    • I went up the Monument steps when I was twelve and taking my cousin around town seeing the sights. When our boys were small I sat at the bottom while Andrew took them up 😂 My eldest ran up them recently to help him train for the Marathon.
      Glad you like the graphic. Thanks, Suzanne 💖 xx

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  12. Lesley ~ you created a ‘concrete’ poem when you wrote yours as a spiral shape!

    Excellent! 😀

    Much love,
    David

    P.S. I think you accidentally forgot ‘line 3’ which should have two syllables, but that doesn’t detract from how wonderfully rendered your imagery and words are!

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