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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets
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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1894)1/7/2000 11:26:00 PM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (1) of 2095
 
COuldn't think of a grammar poem, but remembered a Seamus Heaney about Alphabets from The Haw Lantern

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A shadow his father makes with joined hands
And thumbs and fingers nibbles on the wall
Like a rabbit's head. He understands
He will understand more when he goes to school.

THere he draws smoke with chalk the whole first week,
Then draws the forked stick that they call a Y.
This is writing. A swan's neck and swan's back
Make the 2 he can see now as well as say.

Two rafters and a cross-tie on the slate
Are the letter some call ah, some call ay.
There are charts, there are headlines, there is a right
Way to hold the pen and a wrong way.

First it is 'copying out', and then 'English'
Marked correct with a little leaning hoe.
Smells of inkwells rise in the classroom hush.
A globe in the window tilts like a colored O.

THere are II more sections, my favorite line is the first in the second section.

Declensions sang on air like a hosanna

I love that line.
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