My memory's not what it used to be
Not ev'rything is crystal clear, you see
Each episode is stored some place in there
Much of the time I'm just not quite sure where
Our mind can make use of some little tricks
No need to look for miracles to fix
It, for a well-known phrase or word
Can aid our recollection, though absurd
One little clue can clarify it all
No doubt, these aids can help with our recall
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Author Notes
mnemonicon (n.) a device to aid memory.
This word would appear to be just an alternative form of mnemonic, but why settle for one word, when we can have two almost the same, which mean the same thing?
This poem takes the form of an acrostic, which is, of course, a form of mnemonic.
I'll be away from home for a couple of days, and as my remaining time for this project coincides with our trip away, it will be more difficult to spend time online. For this reason, I've posted twice today, to try and get a day ahead. That means just one more poem in the next two days, and we're all done!
Thanks for reading.
My much-treasured Christmas present for 2017 is a book by Paul Anthony Jones: "The cabinet of linguistic curiosities". Each page contains a descriptive story about some obscure or archaic word. It occurred to me it would be a fun exercise to try and write, each day, a poem featuring the "word of the day" from the book.
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