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<div dir="ltr"><span>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.) </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">HERE's WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BRAILLE </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">by Barbara Hammel </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A through j is like k through t </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But the second ten add dot 3. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">A through i plus a special sign </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Become the numbers one through nine. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Some terms and symbols may have changed </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But the same six dots get arranged </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">B will always be 1 and 2, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Letters are words like d for do, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">H for have, l for like, y for you. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Contractions like and are always and </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Android, quandary, backhand. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">We use 1-4-6 in bush and shone </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But it's shall when it stands alone.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">But some in words can only appear </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Like 3-4-5 in dare and fear. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Dot 5 before which becomes where, </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">4-5-6 before the makes their. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">No matter who writes, it can be read. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">In the dark, you can read in bed. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Braille is beautiful and who'd disagree </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">For these six dots spell literacy. </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Barbara Hammel</span><span> </span><br>
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<span>Barbara Hammel</span></div>
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