The poem
Hot Coffee = (Rust)(Savored Love) ⁄ Ageless Intimacy
The value of hot coffee is to the value of rust as the value of savored love is to the value of ageless intimacy.
The same poem, solved four ways
A similar triangles poem is a proportion, a ⁄ b = d ⁄ e, and a proportion can be rearranged without changing what it claims. Each arrangement is a separate poem and all four say the same thing.
- Hot Coffee = (Rust)(Savored Love) ⁄ Ageless Intimacy
- Rust = (Hot Coffee)(Ageless Intimacy) ⁄ Savored Love
- Savored Love = (Ageless Intimacy)(Hot Coffee) ⁄ Rust
- Ageless Intimacy = (Savored Love)(Rust) ⁄ Hot Coffee