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

[Barbara HAMMEL]

Thank you, Jackie. I like yours as well. Triolets are rather new to me and I'm discovering what a grand form it is. Maybe someday I'll write a poem that uses the triolet for the stanza form just for the fun of it.

Barbara Hammel

On Nov 26, 2020, at 17:33, jacqueline Williams via Stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:


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

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.

This was published  in the ASPS contest in 2010, a third place, I think.

Jackie.

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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
<My Fingertips Braille You to Me.doc>
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