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Poetry

I don't write a lot of poetry, although I like poetic language in prose.  I wrote the following poems as part of the market-leading Years 7-10 mathematics textbook series, Pearson Mathematics, that I published in my day job with Pearson and co-wrote.  Each poem appears on the inside front cover and was written to describe the mathematics inherent in the cover image.  The poems are all Fibs, which means the number of syllables follows a Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...  A Fibonacci sequence is one where each term is the sum of the two previous terms in the sequence.  I based my Fibs on the 6-term Fibonacci sequence that starts with 1, 1.  Theoretically, you could start a Fibonacci sequence with any two numbers and have more than six numbers in the sequence.  In practice, after the sixth line in a Fib, the number of syllables starts to increase rapidly, so there's a pratical limit to the number of lines.  I like the aesthetics behind Fibs - which is similar to Haiku - where the structure leads to a stark simplicity.
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Space
Time
Explore
I am Maths
Communicating
And measuring the infinite

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Flip
Spin
Reverse
I am Maths
Capturing rhythm
Mastering the laws of motion

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Edge
Sport
Movement
I am Maths
Calculating risk
Climbing to ever greater heights

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Ice
Life
Frozen
I am Maths
Living in extremes
Sustaining the environment

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Base
Raise
Index
I am Maths
With super powers
A conquering superhero

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Play
See
Listen
I am Maths
Screens of vivid sounds
The colours of technology

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Height
Shape
Volume
I am Maths
Curves of construction 
And angles of architecture

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Tape
Length
Making
I am Maths
My occupation
Measuring what can be measured

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