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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. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Nov 26, 2020, at 17:33, jacqueline Williams via Stylist <stylist@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jackie.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<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>
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<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>
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HERE's WHAT I LIKE ABOUT BRAILLE <br>
by Barbara Hammel <br>
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A through j is like k through t <br>
But the second ten add dot 3. <br>
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A through i plus a special sign <br>
Become the numbers one through nine. <br>
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Some terms and symbols may have changed <br>
But the same six dots get arranged <br>
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B will always be 1 and 2, <br>
<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://0">2-4-5-6</a> is w. <br>
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Letters are words like d for do, <br>
H for have, l for like, y for you. <br>
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Contractions like and are always and <br>
Android, quandary, backhand. <br>
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We use 1-4-6 in bush and shone <br>
But it's shall when it stands alone.<br>
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But some in words can only appear <br>
Like 3-4-5 in dare and fear. <br>
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Dot 5 before which becomes where, <br>
4-5-6 before the makes their. <br>
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No matter who writes, it can be read. <br>
In the dark, you can read in bed. <br>
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Braille is beautiful and who'd disagree <br>
For these six dots spell literacy. <br>
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