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

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

 

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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