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

[Ericka]

I joyed both pubs quite a lot! Eighth or Jai Barbara Kaba is really 130.1 through died. But I bet really quickly. You probably said that it brailled correctly. I wrote a poem about the thugs by Kayde allows me to do. It was either Wisconsin Council of the Blind & Visually Impaired a while back. It  was written for White Kate day. I’ll look for it and share it another time.

Before Covid happened I plan to take the Hadley‘s poetry writing class. Do you know if it’s still offered? I haven’t seen it up on the website.
Ericka Nelson

> On Nov 26, 2020, at 5:33 PM, jacqueline Williams via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Barbara,
> I think your poem is a masterpiece. It almost brought Braille back to me as it was when I could feel the dots with my fingers in jumbo braille. Let us say ten years ago when I was 82. You have written a poem about the wonder of Braille, and I wrote one about using the fingertips. I will enclose it for anyone interested.
> Your poems are always so interesting and seem to push the boundaries out a little in subjects within form poetry.
> Congratulations
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> My Fingertips Braille You to Me
> My warm and sensing fingertips explore
> dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you—
> trace tenderness awaiting what’s in store
> when warm and sensing fingertips explore.
> My fingertips urge you to want me more.
> That lovers love with fingertips is true.
> My warm and sensing fingertips explore
> dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you.
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> This was published  in the ASPS contest in 2010, a third place, I think.
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> Jackie.
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> From: Stylist <stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Barbara HAMMEL via Stylist
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:54 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8 at msn.com>
> Subject: [Stylist] My liking Braille poem fit yesterday's "explanation" theme
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> 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.) 
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> HERE's WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BRAILLE 
> by Barbara Hammel 
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> A through j is like k through t 
> But the second ten add dot 3. 
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> A through i plus a special sign 
> Become the numbers one through nine. 
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> Some terms and symbols may have changed 
> But the same six dots get arranged 
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> B will always be 1 and 2, 
> 2-4-5-6 is w. 
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> Letters are words like d for do, 
> H for have, l for like, y for you. 
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> Contractions like and are always and 
> Android, quandary, backhand. 
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> We use 1-4-6 in bush and shone 
> But it's shall when it stands alone.
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> But some in words can only appear 
> Like 3-4-5 in dare and fear. 
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> Dot 5 before which becomes where, 
> 4-5-6 before the makes their. 
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> No matter who writes, it can be read. 
> In the dark, you can read in bed. 
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> Braille is beautiful and who'd disagree 
> For these six dots spell literacy. 
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> Barbara Hammel 
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> Barbara Hammel
> <My Fingertips Braille You to Me.doc>
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