Piku, I believe, are an American invention, a spinoff from the Japanese poetry form known as haiku. Instead of the 17 syllable structure of haiku, piku are based on the infinite number 'pi' (rounded off to 3.14 in the most simple piku format). The first line has 3 syllables, the second line has 1 syllable, and the third has 4. Below is an experimental attempt at a piku, which I wrote on 'Pi Day', 3-14-2012.


were we two
thou
sand years apart?