Those two example skills are probably unrelated, like two aspects of the same what-are-your-brain-interconnects problem. I can place symbols and move them, but

Those two example skills are probably unrelated, like two aspects of the same what-are-your-brain-interconnects problem. I can place symbols and move them, but I can't imagine a realistic flower; if I tried hard enough I could memorize a chess boards, but the pieces wouldn't have exact shapes as such, everything would be just a representation of a thing, not comparable to a visual memory of seeing the layout. In programmer speak, I think in nodes, graphs, connections. I can imagine people moving in a room to great detail, but not at all their faces or clothing. I'm strongly spatial but not photographic at all. You're probably strongly tactile, and you learn a poem as if it was muscle memory of a movement.