It’s Day 4 of our month-long #WaterPoemProject. If you’re new to this project, please read the Introduction and FAQ.
Or you can watch this video of me describing how to participate. It’s on the YouTube channel Authors Everywhere.
I’m excited to welcome verse novelist Shari Green to our project. She’s got a great writing prompt for us today.
Shari’s poetry prompt is: A Fogbow Fibonacci Poem
Photo credit: Shari Green
Fogbows are like rainbows, caused when sunlight hits water droplets in the air. The water droplets in fog are much smaller than raindrops, though, and fogbows end up having little or no color. They’re sometimes called white rainbows, cloudbows, or ghost rainbows.
Create a Fibonacci poem about a fogbow.
Are you new to Fibonacci poems? Learn how to write one from the guy who created this poetic form, Greg Pincus! Check out Greg’s post “How to Write a Fib.”
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Your task is to draft a Fogbow Fibonacci poem before the end of the day tomorrow, Thursday, March 26, 2020. Alternate idea: try a fib poem on any water-related subject.
If you’re doing the #WaterPoemProject with a group, be sure to share or post your rough draft, read other people’s poems, and cheer for their efforts. Or leave your poem here, in the comments.
Shari Green is an award-winning author of middle grade verse novels. Her books have been nominated for multiple provincial and state readers’-choice programs and included on international “best of” lists.
Shari Green
In her non-writing life, Shari works as a Licensed Practical Nurse. Thank you, Shari!
Visit her at www.sharigreen.com
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#WaterPoemProject Series Posts:
Project Introduction
FAQ
Prompt 1: Irene Latham, The Language of Water
Prompt 2: Elizabeth Steinglass, What Would a Raindrop Say?
Prompt 3: Linda Mitchell, Found Haiku
Prompt 4: Shari Green, Fogbow Fibonacci
Prompt 5: Margaret Simon, The Taste of Water
Prompt 6: Heather Meloche, The Shape of a Wave
Prompt 7: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, A Water Memory
Prompt 8: Laura Shovan, Rainy Day Opposites
Prompt 9: Kathryn Apel, Silly Solage
Prompt 10: Buffy Silverman, A Watery Home
Prompt 11: Kara Laughlin, Frozen Fog
Prompt 12: Debbie Levy, Jump into a Limerick
Prompt 13: Joy McCullough, What Are Water Bears?
Prompt 14: Linda Baie, Frozen Water Skinny
Prompt 15: Chris Baron, The Hidden World of Water
Prompt 16: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Water Wordplay
Prompt 17: Susan Tan, The Sound of Water
Prompt 18: Mike Grosso, Waterplay!
Prompt 19: R. L. Toalson, Wishing Well
Prompt 20: Margarita Engle, Ode to the Shore
Prompt 21: Faye McCray, Poem in a Bubble
Prompt 22: Meg Eden, Surprising Connections
Please support the #WaterPoemProject authors by buying their books from your favorite independent bookstore.
Ghost
Cloud
Water
lingers on
sunlight spotlighted
by a bow of gossamer fog
Margaret
I love how my poem and word choices seem to be entwined with your choices, completely by random. Friendship poets ….
Kevin
Such rich language — “lingers” and “gossamer.” Both of these words cling to the air.
Oh, gossamer! Love that! Great poem.
Mist
Ghost
Rising
from rivers;
Fingers through water
break apart this surface tension
I can visualize those fingers. (Suddenly, I’m seeing the Lady in the Lake holding Excalibur!)
Lovely imagery; I especially like “fingers through water”.
What
does
it mean
this rainbow
stretched across the sky
bleached of all its promised color?
This feels like a wistful poem, Liz. I like that you open with “What does it mean?”
Wow, so great, especially “bleached of all its promised color”.
“feigning fogbow”
fog’s
free
faint face
fades so fast
but the faux film of
its ghostly fair flecks floats freezing
Wow, Mia! You set yourself an extra challenge today: A fogbow fibonacci filled with F words! (That ghostly hair gives me the shivers.)
Such skillful and thoughtful alliteration. I especially like “feigning” and “faux”.
lol. I’ve been out all day. And, in my haste to catch up on writing prompts (which I KNOW I don’t have to do by the end of the day) I answered 5 before 4. Bonus for me! I’m ahead.
Shari, I really love this photo and the fib poem is such a perfect form for it.
fog
bow
fogbow
a half-moon
opals tossed in snow
a tiara crowning just now.
Those last two images sparkle!
I love the image I got in my mind at “opals tossed in snow”. Really beautiful. Kind of perfect, really.
[…] I visited Laura Shovan’s blog for the inspiration for this poem. Laura’s host, Shari Green motivated me to write a Fibonacci poem, mirroring Fibonacci’s […]
Late to the party:
Cloudbow
bright
burst
random
pastel tones
floating snippets seen
elegant delightful vision
Posted with pix I took a few years ago https://iblessings.wordpress.com/2020/04/04/cloudbow-fibonacci-poem-nationalpoetrymonth-day-4-31/
Thank you!
Opening the poem with alliteration is clever. I especially like “pastel tones/floating snippets seen.”
I really like that you added your poem to a photo you took; both are delightful.
Fog bow
Rare
Dew
Droplets
Magical
Delicate crescent
Ethereal wavelength of light
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