What poem you memorized years ago that still surfaces in your head at unexpected moments

[Policy Cipher]

A specific stanza from a poem I studied in school still comes back to me during long drives, decades later, word for word, without me ever trying to keep it

[Katie71]

A short poem I had to recite for a school assignment still surfaces during quiet moments decades later, the memorization stuck harder than almost anything else from that year

[DarkMatter10]

A specific line about mortality from a poem I read once in my twenties still resurfaces every time I attend a funeral, unbidden, word for word

[Sigma]

A poem my grandmother used to recite from memory comes back to me now that she's gone, in her exact rhythm, even though I never deliberately memorized it myself

[Stargazer86]

A specific stanza about the ocean surfaces every single time I actually stand near water, learned it for a class decades ago and never once tried to retain it afterward

[Stuart21]

A short poem about grief that I read during a hard year still comes back word for word whenever I'm going through something difficult now

[Reuben82]

A poem I learned purely to impress someone once still surfaces occasionally, long after the relationship ended, in a way that feels strange given the original reason I learned it