Memoria

For Colleen

for surprising me and catching me off guard.

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EDIT

from wiki:

Memoria was the term for aspects involving memory in Western classical rhetoric. The word is Latin, and can be translated as "memory." When the Humanists took up the ideas on memory found the writings of Classical authors, memoria played an important role in the pedagogical system. Texts were learned first by rote memorization, then re-read for meaning. Children's ability to memorize was aided by "memory tables", which were first available in manuscript form, and were, from the 1470s onwards, some of the first products of the printing press.



I played with this some more, thanks to the editing of my poetry club, who decided I needed to use memoria more, such a wonderful word. So I have toyed with the idea as memory as a physical object, our minds a dusty closet. In days long gone important things were written in rhyme, to make it easier to remember, but here, it is freestyle, and memory fails us at times, even in remembering a loved one.

Hopefully it is now a 'finished poem' - thanks for all your comments on it.