Rejuvenation

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'"  in "Poetry Forms"  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.