The good folk at The Aperiodical created a contest for poetry similar to the well-known Japanese format of haiku. Only instead of the usual 5-7-5 syllable arrangement, they altered it to 3-1-4 -- the first three digits of the mathematical term π or pi -- and called it "pi-ku."
A couple of them are pretty clever. The winner was not only mathematical in composition, but also in subject matter:
Statistics
Lies?
Or, perchance, truth
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