<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">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.<br><br>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.<br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 47px; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Ericka Nelson</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 26, 2020, at 5:33 PM, jacqueline Williams via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Barbara,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Your poems are always so interesting and seem to push the boundaries out a little in subjects within form poetry.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Congratulations<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a name="OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><b>My Fingertips Braille You to Me<o:p></o:p></b></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">My warm and sensing fingertips explore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you—<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">trace tenderness awaiting what’s in store<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">when warm and sensing fingertips explore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">My fingertips urge you to want me more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">That lovers love with fingertips is true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">My warm and sensing fingertips explore<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">dots 1,3,4,5,6, the “y” for you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%">This was published in the ASPS contest in 2010, a third place, I think.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Jackie.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Stylist <stylist-bounces@nfbnet.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Barbara HAMMEL via Stylist<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> stylist@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Barbara HAMMEL <poetlori8@msn.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [Stylist] My liking Braille poem fit yesterday's "explanation" theme<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.) <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br><br><br><br><br>HERE's WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BRAILLE <br>by Barbara Hammel <br><br>A through j is like k through t <br>But the second ten add dot 3. <br><br>A through i plus a special sign <br>Become the numbers one through nine. <br><br>Some terms and symbols may have changed <br>But the same six dots get arranged <br><br>B will always be 1 and 2, <br><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0">2-4-5-6</a> is w. <br><br>Letters are words like d for do, <br>H for have, l for like, y for you. <br><br>Contractions like and are always and <br>Android, quandary, backhand. <br><br>We use 1-4-6 in bush and shone <br>But it's shall when it stands alone.<br><br>But some in words can only appear <br>Like 3-4-5 in dare and fear. <br><br>Dot 5 before which becomes where, <br>4-5-6 before the makes their. <br><br>No matter who writes, it can be read. <br>In the dark, you can read in bed. <br><br>Braille is beautiful and who'd disagree <br>For these six dots spell literacy. <br><br><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Barbara Hammel <br><br><br><br>Barbara Hammel<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><My Fingertips Braille You to Me.doc></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Writers Division web site</span><br><span>http://writers.nfb.org/</span><br><span>Stylist mailing list</span><br><span>Stylist@nfbnet.org</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org</span><br><span>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Stylist:</span><br><span>http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/dotwriter1%40gmail.com</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>