ask them to pronounce "unionized"

ask them to pronounce "unionized"
As part of my practice I’ve been trying to memorise poetry. I definitely feel like reciting something from memory is a totally different experience than simply reading it from a book (or from a phone screen). Your mind finds little nooks and crannies is the words that aren’t always apparent from a cursory read. Anyway I thought I would start posting poems here once I’ve finished memorising them. If anyone has any suggestions for good poems/poets (especially something with a nature theme) I’m always looking for good ideas!
Here’s my first memorised poem, by William Blake:
Hear the voice of the Bard,
Who present, past, and future, sees;
Whose ears have heard
The Holy Word
That walked among the ancient trees;
Calling the lapsed soul,
And weeping in the evening dew;
That might control
The starry pole,
And fallen, fallen light renew!
'O Earth, O Earth, return!
Arise from out the dewy grass!
Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the slumbrous mass.
Turn away no more;
Why wilt thou turn away?
The starry floor,
The watery shore,
Is given thee till the break of day.
I like the concept of the small season. Originally, I think, it came from somebody noticing that in Japan the year traditionally had a rhythm that beat once every two weeks or so; they translated this list of "small seasons" into English and provided the traditional associations for each subdivision.
This is great, as far as it goes, but most of us don't live in Japan (and Japan itself has a diversity of climate regions). The rhythm of the year in Arizona is utterly different from that in Seattle, which is different from Victoria, BC. In fact, among the Coast Salish, the year was traditionally recognized as having thirteen "moons"; but exactly which moons depended on which group you were talking to and what kind of activities their traditional territories supported. Upriver (and inland) Stó:lo had different concerns from the Snuneymuxw of Penelakut Island, and the S'Klallam on the Olympic Peninsula lived differently still.
So: each of us should take the 24 Japanese small seasons as an inspiration, and come up with our own small seasons.