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Understand the poem

1. Why is the poet grateful for eyes and ears?

2. How do lips and mind help a human being?
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3. What does the poet use his hands for?
4. Why does the poet place the heart above all else?

Read and appreciate
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1. Pick out the rhyming words from the poem.

Here are a few for you.

see-me, speak-seek

2. Which stanza do you like the most? Why?

3. Try and translate the poem into your mother tongue.
Know about the poet

Joseph T. Renaldi, originally from Windber,
Pennsylvania, has spent forty years in the field of
education. Since his retirement he spent much
of his time in the visual arts, especially writing,
painting, drawing, and woodcraft.

His popular poems are ‘A Binding Relationship’,
‘A Birthday Greeting and A Bountiful Harvest’. He
is the author of ‘The Willing Wind’, A Tale of Love and Obsession
and an assortment of poetry. His poem ‘Graduation Day’ is the
most read of all the poems he has written.

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