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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Romance/Love · #1009335
An old person responds once more to the touch of love.
Rejuvenation


Your warm embrace
yesterday,
Refreshed my aging heart
And made
My tired, weary bones crackle and shiver alive
and begin to desire you again.


Poet's note:

This poetic form is called "Archimedes' Pi". To understand what that is, please read on:

Please look up "Pi - Archimedes'" Open in new Window. in "Poetry Forms" Open in new Window. to know what this form of poetry is.

In short, "PI = 3.14286 -- Archimedes' estimate;
So the Pi according to Archimedes is built up in this way:

line 1: 3 words
line 2: 1 word
line 3: 4 words
line 4: 2 words
line 5: 8 words
line 6: 6 words.
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