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About 10 or so years ago, Tennessee, Georgia, and many other Southern states were in the middle of the worse drought in years. The area lakes were dangerously low. We didn’t have to ration water at my location, but we were told not to wash our cars and to avoid other large water use activities. Everything seemed so dry and crunchy that we thought the drought-like conditions would never end.

Until the last couple of years. Sudden rain and thunderstorms are almost a daily occurrence. The ground stays drenched. We have a house full of ants that have escaped to the surface because their homes have been flooded. Groundhogs, chipmunks, and yes even snakes are being displaced from their homes. We’ve had straight line wind in Cookeville that caused record breaking damage and loss. Fortunately, during the recent straight-line wind storms (not tornadoes) no one was seriously injured. Which was a…

In this challenge prompt, “To Fib or Not to Fib!”

Join our 1st challenge prompt, “the fibonacci poetry challenge” where you can have the chance to be in my poetry eBook and win, win, win, an opportunity for one of my designer coffee mugs. Follow the instructions below…

Today, we are going to create what is called a “Fibonacci Poetry.” In clearer or a shorter term, it’s called “Fibs.” With Fibs, we join poetry and numbers.

From the math geeks point of view, it’s where math and poetry collide. If you want to read more information on this unique form of poetry, look here… Fun With Fibs 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,now granted the slang for fibs is to tell a lie or string of lies. But that’s not what we have here, do we?

The Fibonacci sequence works like this. “The number of syllables in…