A Golden Ratio Poem

[Magpie]

Have 1
you   1
measured   2
my face? you   3
asked me last evening,   5
beholding   3
the sun   2
flow   1
er...   1
I   1
answered,   2
why would I?   3
The golden aspect   5
beneath your silken veil   6
destroys all need for rhythm.   7

I see 1,1,1,3,4,1,2,1,1,1....what's that? Besides 3.142 is only right to the second decimal place

I thought it was a Fibonacci sequence with a couple of reflections in it 1,1,2,3,5—3,2,1—1,1,2,3,5 and then 6 and 7 perhaps was there as a joke and fitting in with 'destroys all need for rhythm'.

Although I admit that Kate Bush and Pi was a bit of a distraction (obsession)

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Have
you
measured
my face? you
asked me last evening,
beholding
the sun
flow
er...
I
answered,
why would I?
The golden aspect
beneath your silken veil
destroys all need for rhythm.

If I hadn't of just counted them now I would not have noticed the 6 and 7 line because first time I read it I counted the first few lines then saw the pattern and presumed the rest.
If I may offer my Blake influenced edit,

beholding
the sun
—count,
test,
steps—
Flower,
why would I?

Hmmm, perhaps not, thanks for the read and more Kate Bush, I'm starting to fall for her I think.

Cheers,

Mark

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but
-
if we didn't know it
we
couldn't quickly approximate

miles to k's
k's to miles

Now there is real true useful genius—and the poem is not bad I suppose—but the Fibonacci method of miles to km and back again. If you've come up with that yourself then you deserve a medal... I'm stealing it and put it in my book of how to explain the world simpler than simply, somewhere in between the speed of light being 7 times round the earth a second—instead of some ridiculous amount of metres per second—and quantum entanglement explained as being just like a really long stick.

Anyway you'll get a credit 

Cheers for the read and the genius

Mark