Poem 4: Beauty
Poet: E-Yeh-Shure
Introduction: Beauty is not just what we see. It is also what we hear and what we do. Beauty is everywhere around us.
Summary
Beauty is Seen: In the sunlight, trees, birds, corn growing, and people working or dancing for their harvest.
Beauty is Heard: In the night, wind sighing, rain falling, or a singer chanting anything in earnest (sincerely).
Beauty is in Yourself: Good deeds, happy thoughts that repeat themselves in your dreams, in your work, and even in your rest.
Conclusion: Beauty is everywhere - nature, sound, and within our own actions and thoughts.
Word Meanings
- Harvest: The crop being gathered.
- Sighing: Letting out a long deep breath (sound of wind).
- Chanting: Singing or saying repeatedly.
- Earnest: Serious and sincere.
- Deeds: Actions.
- Repeat: To do again.
Question 1:
The poet says, "Beauty is heard in ..." Can you hear beauty? Add a sound that you think is beautiful to the sounds the poet thinks are beautiful.
Question 2:
"Beauty is in yourself." How is beauty in ourselves?
Question 3:
Write a paragraph about beauty.
Grammar Rules: Adverbs
A word that adds something to the meaning of a Verb, an Adjective, or another Adverb.
- Manner: How? (Quickly).
- Time: When? (Now).
- Place: Where? (Here).
