One or two of the blogs I visit have started exploring the fun of the Fib. Gave me the idea that it might be fun to have a Fib Fest of Bible Stories. Would help to keep your mind active and attentive to more serious things than the usual Christmas pastimes. If there are enough it would be fun to compile them into a Collection of Bible Fibs – to go alongside the Haiku Introduction to the NT. (If you missed this you can view it on the September 8 posting. )
Just to be clear, a Fib isn't an untruth! It's a poem of 20 syllables in which the number of
syllables in each line is the total of the two previous lines – thus
1,1,2,3,5,8. You can of course continue upwards so that the next line is 13, then 21, after which it gets too silly I think. Fib poems are based on the Fibonacci mathematical sequence and you can find a fuller explanation here.
The rules for this Fib Fest of Bible Stories are simple and three:
The Fib
- can only have 7 lines, on the pattern explained above, the last being 13 syllables.
- must encapsulate a story from the Bible.
- leave your Fib in the Comments Page.
To illustrate I've chosen two of my favourite stories. Try to choose a story no one else has attempted so far, so that we can have a wide range of biblical stories. A later Fib Fest may focus on one story, from the multi-perspectives of the contributors. Cumulatively that would be communal exegesis!
Oh and have fun – much in the best Bible stories makes for laughter, food for thought – even prayer!
Sarah
Sarah
laughed!
Why not?
So would you!
Old age child-bearing,
even when announced by angels
with straight faces; a cruel joke, or God’s promise. Which?
…..
Jacob
Dark
night.
Jacob
fast awake,
conned into wrestling
for his life, then hirpling into
the breaking dawn, learning to lean on integrity.
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