Pi-ku for Pi Day

March 14 (3/14) is Pi Day! Here's part of a rhyme I learned as a mnemonic for remembering pi to the 21st place. The number of letters in each word represent a number in pi (sir=3, I=1, send=4, etc.).

Sir, I send a rhyme excelling
in sacred truth and rigid spelling.
Numerical sprites elucidate
for me the lexicon's dull weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piphilology

Now, what better way is there to celebrate Pi Day than to eat pie and write Pi-ku? A Pi-ku is a poetry form very similar to the Haiku but rather than following the 5-7-5 form, it follows the form 3-1-4: the first line has three syllables, one syllable in the second line, and four syllables in the last line.

Here is a Pi-ku to me from my husband:

                  Darling Wife
                  Oh,
                  How I love you.

Read more about Pi Day here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/03/pi_day.html