Sunset of Memory for The Sunday Whirl Wordle

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Sunset of Memory

This lack  of memory plagues my world:
words I can’t remember,
Ideas that once fired my life
have faded down to ember.

It is a cruel injustice
that my thoughts have been arrested.
They escape me daily
as my memory is bested.

So, although throughout my life,
my strength has been the word,
suddenly they desert me
and my life’s become absurd.

My faith in unity of words
and mind has come undone,
and, I fear, is fading
with the setting of the sun.

 

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 730 the prompt words are: ideas remember words plague escape faith strength unity through arrest cruelty injustice

And, for Times Change prompt, as well.

23 thoughts on “Sunset of Memory for The Sunday Whirl Wordle”

  3. Unknown's avatarAnn Garcia

    nouns are the first to sneak off and disappear. I heard that somewhere but of course do not remember the source. It is appalling as the words spill out of your ears and race off. Come back. They used to pop into my mind some time later in the day. Well.

    There’s Life in the Old Dame yet !!!

    luv, Ann O’Neal Garcia

    ps You still write good. 😃

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Names are the worst to forget. I will start out introducing people and in the middle of it, forget one of their names. It is so embarrassing. Sometimes they fill in their own names without commenting–such a graceful and generous act.

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      1. shaun tenzenmen's avatarshaun tenzenmen

        I am really tested, being a high school teacher of six or seven 30+ student classes, and many with names that I am not familiar with. Plus the kids all wear uniforms and have a strict hair style policy rendering many to look similar to each other.

        But I think that it is keeping my brain exercised. I hate it when I forget their names too, especially if I don’t see them for a semester. They are offended when I forget (half-jokingly) and I kick myself. I want to tell them that they need to stand out more! But then they will be offended again!

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          I was an English teacher for 10 years and at the beginning of every semester, I played a “game” with each class. I said it was to introduce them to each other but it was really to help me memorize their names and it worked. The first person in the first row introduced himself/herself: “Hello, I am Joe Blow.” (only he/she gave his/her real name) Then the person behind that first desk said, “Hello. I’d like to introduce you to Joe Blow and I am Cindy Smith.” The third person would say, Hello, I’d like to introduce you to Joe Blow, Cindy Smith and I am Tim Thomas….and so on until the last person had to recite everyone’s names. It wasnt’ so hard for them as they were young and had probably been in school together for at least 9 years, but it sure did help me, the new teacher in town, to remember their names!

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  5. isaiah46ministries's avatarisaiah46ministries

    You are so right, Judy. It is tough to lose the preciousness of memory that connects us to our pasts. The other day, I tried to remember the word, promenade, because I was thinking of how it would be wonderful to walk on the promenade in Quarteria, Portugal again. But, praise God for Google. I looked it up. In the past, it would have kept me awake until I remembered it. So, technology isn’t all bad, but, oh, to have the memory of my twenty-something self!

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      There are sometimes words I just forget for years…like the name of a favorite flower. Literally for 5 years or more I cannot remember it. Actually, the flower I’m thinking of I still can’t remember after 24 years! I once knew it. I can see it. But the name? Blank. Or I remember a word at the beginning of a sentence but forget it before I can get to it.

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