Poem: "Oxrows"

Nov 04, 2009 10:49

This poem came out of the November 3, 2009 Poetry Fishbowl. It was prompted and sponsored by janetmiles.

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ladymondegreen November 4 2009, 16:59:38 UTC
As a reader of both Hebrew and English, I really like this one.

My father taught me about boustrophedon when I was little, and frequently when I was learning to write backwards as a teenager I would write backwards between the lines.

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Yay! ysabetwordsmith November 4 2009, 19:33:51 UTC
I am intrigued by languages that read from right to left. I think they would be fun to try writing -- although I might switch to my left hand for those. (I'm ambidextrous, leaning to right-handed. I suspect if I'd started out writing Hebrew or Arabic, I'd be leaning leftward.)

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Re: Yay! ladymondegreen November 4 2009, 20:12:45 UTC
I find that sometimes my hand does feel like it's getting in the way when I write. I haven't trained myself to be able to write with both hands, as I would really like to do. Mostly I just move my hand across the paper in a way that feels inefficient to me. This largely disappears when I'm writing in Hebrew, though I do sometimes get disoriented.

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