Fibonacci Dreamscape
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
In sleep, a voice heard.
Articulate with pattern.
My voice — while sleeping.
Captured by my wife — awake.
While I remained in deep sleep.
She heard this pattern.
Numerical register.
Uttered during sleep.
It’s: “1-2-3:3-2-1.”
A Fibonacci Dreamscape.
Geometric form.
With a repeating pattern.
Echoing to her.
This time with numbers “growing.”
And later “diminishing.”
More complicated.
With the pattern now “shirking.”
Numbers decreasing.
The sequence is then shifted.
From 3 to 2, and to 1.
Pattern detected.
Together in this sequence.
A math anagram.
Sacred Geometry shown.
Connected to number 5.
5 as a helix.
A geometric figure.
A metric unit.
Pointed like a pentagon.
With “Golden Ratio” angle.
Such an occurrence.
Is Fibonacci trademark.
That the number 5.
Is, in form, Spiritual.
Appearing like a spiral.
Sacred number 5.
Look at its shape and design.
As a Roman V.
Symbolically — It’s Phi.
A Holy Trinity sign.
Characteristic.
The Fibonacci pattern:
Multiples of 5.
Raised up to the fifth power.
Finite decimal is Phi.
Offering some link.
A “Golden Ratio” logic.
Fibonacci scale.
Between what is Infinite.
And what is finally known.
A “Golden Ratio.”
With Spiritual message.
In a sacred dream.
Visibly manifested.
The Invisible Divine.
Dreams are important.
As bearers of messages.
From the Underworld.
When filled with divination.
We seek interpretation.
This dream came to me.
With clear articulation.
Uttering numbers.
A Fibonacci pattern.
Of Sacred Geometry.
Still asleep in dream.
During the early morning.
In uttered numbers.
In uttered numbers — sleeping.
Numbers, like some equations.
In sleep, a voice heard.
Articulate with pattern.
My voice — while sleeping.
Captured by my wife — awake.
While I remained in deep sleep.
About this poem
Considered “the most talented Western mathematician of the Middle Ages,” Leonardo of Pisa, posthumously known as Fibonacci (circa 1170-1240 A.D.), an Italian mathematician of Pisa, Republic of Pisa, is renown for having popularized the Indo-Arabic numerical system in the Western world through his composition in 1202 of Liber Abaci, an historic Latin manuscript of calculations. The Fibonacci numerical series starts with the number one, adds one to give two, and from then on, the following number becomes the sum of the previous two numbers in the series such that, as example: 3=1+2; 5=3+2. Metaphysical research of Fibonacci number system and equations posits that the “Fibonacci numbers are [represented] in all of life” with a prime example as the double helix molecule with its spiral-like staircase winding upwards like sacred geometry embracing a central pole. Before composing this poem which emerged from a dream, I had never heard of the mathematician Fibonacci. I am also not a mathematician and not formally trained in mathematics. When I had learned that I had uttered what appeared to be a mathematical formula in my dream, and while fast asleep, I became, as Alice in Wonderland would have said, “curiouser and curiouser.” I desired to have a better understanding of what my dream portended, and what, by happenstance, I had tapped into. Having conducted post-dream research on Fibonacci as a mathematician, and having ascertained his metaphysical mathematical inclinations, I have entitled this poem “Fibonacci Dreamscape” because the word “Dreamscape” is suggestive of a ladder-like landscape or scene, with the strangeness of mystery that is characteristic of dreams in general with their powerful images of surrealism. Additionally, Fibonacci’s mathematical landscape presents itself to us in a similar symbolic framework . As an afterthought, I recognize that this most recent composition of mine, in Jungian fashion of synchronicity, serves as a twin companion to a poem that also emerged from the dream world, which precedes it in composition, and which I entitled ”ESOTERICA.” The symbolic dreamworld is indeed a chthonic world of archetypal creations where Chomsky’s “colorless green ideas sleep furiously.” more »
Written on April 11, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 11, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on April 23, 2022
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,794 |
Words | 367 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
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