20150621 (equinox)

Noon’s shadow is shortest on the solstice

In the summer though the light is longest

And the days start getting shorter

And paradoxically warmer

It’s the opposite in winter

When noon’s shadow is the longest

The days start getting longer and

Heterodoxically there’s plenty cold to come 

While at the equinoxes which 

Could as well be equidaysies      

The days keep getting longer

And the nights keep getting shorter

Until summer 

When the nights start getting longer

And the days start getting shorter

And we pass the other equinoxis 

Which could as well be equidaysis 

Where the days keep getting shorter

And the nights keep getting longer

Until winter 

And it starts all over again

Clearly what we need here

Is a new mnemonic much 

More like a pleasant tonic 

And less like a high colonic 

For this remembering

c. J.S.Manista, 2015