Numerical series in poetry

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I have been looking at underlying number sequences in relation to laying out artwork.

The Fibonacci sequence is of course really famous and of course is in about everything, and you probably all know about it. In case you don’t, I found a brilliant site with examples on it, and some really high quality work and image.

I gt quite bored, because coloring stuff is like painting houses, so I wondered if anyone had tried writing poetry using PI or Phi as the base of their poems. Not surprisingly some poets have had a go at this.

Here an example of Pi ( Piku) which is rather good.


The Storm: by Mike Rollins

3 Flash, Rumble
1 Rain
4 Awesome thunder
1 Wind
5 The wind will plunder
9 As did the pirates from on yonder
2 Raid, fall
6 Damn! My ship is sinking
5 The water stinging
3 Quivering
5 The storm moves onward
8 I'm tired, I'm cold, I sink, I die.


Here's one using Fibonacci by Suresh Venkatasubramanian,

I
like
to blog.
Frequently.
Theory matters.
Computer science (theory)
is my home and geometric algorithms are
sublime. Let P be a set of points in general position in the plane. Amen.

I also found one 13th Century Monk had devised employing Mandelbrot ( yes you read this right) as a theme for counting the souls to heaven. This is more about meaning rather than form.


- Luck / like the moon / changeable in state / We are cast down / like straws upon a ploughed field / Our fates measuring / the eternal circle -

I found this fascinating because there's all sorts of imagery based on these series but much less is known about literature. There must be tons more out there.

Now here’s the thought what if there is series/sequence and formula underlying literature that has yet to be abstracted and understood but certainly translatable from one form to another?

http://classes.yale.edu/Fractals/MandelSet/MandelMonk/MandelMonk.html

I don't write number based poetry, but I do like to pick a key and then play a bunch of the digits from pi on my violin. It's really beautiful. i admire composers who have written pieces based on it.

I don’t think there is a series, sequence or formula underlying literature as a whole (unless, perhaps, one uses chaos theory). I think the only exceptions are specific sub-genres that are intentionally structured with a mathematical motif, like pi-ku or piphilology.