When creating a poem, I often find that first choosing a pattern of syllable counts can be very helpful in guiding me into careful word choices. I have used the Fibonacci numbers as a guide to forming the following lines. Information for these lines has come from a frightening story by Marcus Eriksen (March 23, 2021 in the Washington Post).
Save
the
world from
plastics, Now!
Don't allow more deaths
of desert camels, painful deaths
caused by eating humans' trash within its plastic bags --
chewed plastic not digestible --
causing ulcers and
lots of pain,
leading
to
death.
After a pair of 1's to start the sequence, each succeeding Fibonacci number is the sum of the preceding two numbers: Above we have (climbing and then reversing): 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1.
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