Using syllable counts to help to craft poems has been with us
since the sonnet and this blog has often presented square poems and Fibs
and Pilish and . .. and today we again focus on the digits of π. On
Pi-Day (3/14) Australia's Cosmos Magazine opened a Pi-Ku Contest which
asks for brief Haiku-like poems whose syllables-per-line are counted by
the first six digit of the decimal value of π. (Contest information is available at this link.) Entries must be submitted by 2Pi-Day, or 6/28.
Here are two mathy samples from the Cosmos contest-information site:
Learning STEM
is
necessary.
Do
remember science,
technology, engineering, maths. by Jennifer Chalmers
To say safe,
Keep
an area
of
Pi times one point five
metres squared around yourself always. by Lauren Fuge
Other poetry forms shaped by the digits of π include π-ku and Pilish.