[Stylist] My liking Braille poem fit yesterday's "explanation" theme

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Yesterday's theme, in my November quest to write a poem a day, was an explanation poem. It was the perfect npportunity to complete the "What I Like About Braille" poem for NFB's Education week challenge that Shelley posted about last week. Here's what I sent in. (A forewarning that it doesn't quite format correctly for you but it's supposed to end up in rhyming couples with double spaces between them.)






HERE's WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BRAILLE
by Barbara Hammel

A through j is like k through t
But the second ten add dot 3.

A through i plus a special sign
Become the numbers one through nine.

Some terms and symbols may have changed
But the same six dots get arranged

B will always be 1 and 2,
2-4-5-6<x-apple-data-detectors://0> is w.

Letters are words like d for do,
H for have, l for like, y for you.

Contractions like and are always and
Android, quandary, backhand.

We use 1-4-6 in bush and shone
But it's shall when it stands alone.

But some in words can only appear
Like 3-4-5 in dare and fear.

Dot 5 before which becomes where,
4-5-6 before the makes their.

No matter who writes, it can be read.
In the dark, you can read in bed.

Braille is beautiful and who'd disagree
For these six dots spell literacy.



Barbara Hammel



Barbara Hammel
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