L-System Poems

I

The Garden

Fibonacci: A→AB, B→A

grow

grow rest

grow rest grow

grow rest grow grow rest

grow rest grow grow rest grow rest grow

grow rest grow grow rest grow rest grow grow rest grow grow rest

Each line is a Fibonacci number of words.
Each generation contains the previous as a prefix.
The poem grows but never erases.

II

The Mirror

Dragon curve: X→X+Y+, Y→−X−Y

I remember.

I remember — I forget —

I remember — I forget — but I remember but I forget —

I remember — I forget — but I remember but I forget — but I remember — I forget — but I remember but I forget —

The dragon curve of memory.
Each remembering spawns a forgetting.
Each forgetting, a remembering.

III

Constraint

S→SRC, R→CR, C→SC

the wall

the wall breaks into song

the wall breaks into song into song breaks the wall into song

the wall breaks into song into song breaks the wall into song the wall into song into song breaks the wall breaks into song the wall into song

By generation 3, creation (C) is 44%. Structure (S) is 31%.
The song is winning.

IV

Absence

Thue-Morse: A→AB, B→BA

here

here gone

here gone gone here

here gone gone here gone here here gone

here gone gone here gone here here gone gone here here gone here gone gone here

Aperiodic. Never repeating. Never settling.
The Thue-Morse sequence: presence and absence
in perfect imbalance forever.

V

The Wave

0→1[0]0, 1→11

light

dark (where light hides) light

dark dark (where dark (where light hides) light hides) dark (where light hides) light

Recursive nesting. Light is always hidden
inside an increasing depth of darkness.
But it's always there.