Short Gandhi Poems

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Paraphrasing Ghandi

"First you're ignored, then laughed at by the government,
then they fight with you, and then you win"
- Mohandas Gandhi (but I'm paraphrasing him)
Categories: gandhi, people,
Form: Rhyme


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Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience as modus operandi
The British, oh so superior
Ended up on their right royal posterior!

Diana Dalton
13 Nov 2012
Categories: gandhi, funny, inspirational, peace, people, political,
Form: Clerihew

The Lost I

In GANDHI,India most,

But the I first,lost,

MODI traced the I first,

From his name's last,

In Gandhi,India most,

But Modi made him lost!
Categories: gandhi, absence, fun,
Form: Imagism

Wrong Is Right

Right and wrong are different,
All the rights are not rights,
All the wrongs are not wrongs,
Doing a wrong right,
Not wrong,
Lord Buddha and Gandhi,
Came right doing wrong!
Categories: gandhi, character, good morning, rights,
Form: Light Verse

Man Need

"Earth provides  enough to
Satisfy every man's need,
But not every man's greed."

What a great poet! Mahatma Gandhi. Really Mahatma. I hope that Victor and you carefully read this great serene Senryu.
Categories: gandhi, adventure, people, philosophy,
Form: Senryu


Salt March

Gandhi
Marched to Dandi
To fight against taxes on salt,
Non-violence was his axe in this assault.


24-Jan-2019
Educate Me with Humor - Leader Clerihew Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Andrea Dietrich
Categories: gandhi, education,
Form: Clerihew

Gandhi

experimented
          with 
                truth

fought
          for 
              freedom

fought 
          for 
              peace

breathless
         
              struggle

was

forced to
        stop
 
              breathing
Categories: gandhi, tribute,
Form: Verse

Three Wise Men

Poet:  Ken Jordan
Poem:  Three Wise Men
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan
written:  December/2014


    

       Jesus ______
                          |__
               Gandhi     |          
                              |___
                     Martin      |
© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gandhi, allah, bible, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry

The Final God

The last survivor of the human race
Depicting General
Master and genius
Night time
Food alert
Dangerous flying
Nightly heavens
Packed ditch
Troy surrenders
Zeus is more
Gandhi falls
Hunger of a nation
When the time comes
General heat
To fly
For five hundred parts
Categories: gandhi, angel, baptism, beauty, bereavement, bird,
Form: Acrostic

Gandhi

You may conquer a nation 
But can't this man ...
The one who
Stood in the midst of downtrodden's...
To free them from the shackles of darkness .

The one who led slaves 
To free them .....
From the chained rein's
And has become their roar
For ever ...

                           .
Categories: gandhi, break up,
Form: Free verse

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Not like the Mona Lisa 
A bit like father time
Does not smile like Gandhi 
( Quote ) "Peace begins with a smile.”  


“Come be My light,” 


This luminous messenger of God
Belong to the world
Missionary of Charity, a “mother to the poor,”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)



12-11-12
Categories: gandhi, religion, spiritual,
Form: Clerihew
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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi 
         Possessed a soul so fine and dandy 
Iconic Indian lawyer, ethicist, pacifist and sage 
     Assassinated in 1948 at 78 years of age


Bite Size Poem No48 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Date written:06/28/2022
Categories: gandhi, appreciation, celebrity, people, tribute,
Form: Clerihew

Rice

“If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.”
- Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
------------------------------------------------
sprouted, sowed, dressed, transplanted
soil rich, fertile, warm
puddled field, drained well, weeded
panicle to grains
gently harvested
life staple
food
Categories: gandhi, food,
Form: Epulaeryu
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Virtuous Man

As the most impenetrable darkness 
It is dissipated by a single ray of light
So
An army of evil men is defeated 
By a single virtuous man 
For
He has Good on his side! *



© Demetrios Trifiatis 
       30 July 2019



* One has to think of Mahatma Gandhi and of Nelson Mandela among
thousand of other men in history!
Categories: gandhi, dark, evil, light,
Form: Free verse
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Truism

When I tell you to build dams over rivers and seas,
To build bridges betwixt beings and make existence ease;
You laugh at me and politicize each one of my fights,
I don't quit; I don't accept failures; I am at my heights;
I am Gandhi, Nehru, Mandela, Luther, Lincoln, oh!
Who, on the paths of Jesus, Allah, and Ram always go..!!!
Categories: gandhi, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme

International Poetry Day By Unesco

You honor poets by this day -  this our souls require!
My far-off ancestral fire and I born in indenture (South Africa)
Still learned "NAMASTHE:  I bow before your spirit!"
No handshakes needed, for higher things we aspire
In Mandela's Africa, where Indian & Gandhi no more inspire
But COVID-19 will perhaps unite us again, as Lincoln & King
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gandhi, black love, blessing, childhood, discrimination, humanity, immigration,
Form: Verse

I Love How Dr King Rescued the Us Constitution

He did not revolt; Gandhi offered him a method he despaired finding -
Mere men and women see darkly. One ethnic eye, one condescending
Great human beings are great human DOINGS, too. And forgiving ....

(c)Deo. Happy Dr. King Holiday to you. Shalom, shalom I say, as I also lift up the Memory of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Dr. King's loyal friend.
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gandhi, adventure, allegory, allusion, america, analogy, anti bullying,
Form: Bio

South Africa Salutes Dr Martin Luther King Jr

South Africa salutes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr!




They gunned you down,
on this April day,
all those years ago,

yet you live, you breathe!





They gunned you down,
just as they did Chris Hani and M.K. Gandhi,

and they failed, as they always will,

for they can never kill,

your dream, your ideals.





Your dream, your ideals,

live, and breathe,


still!
Categories: gandhi, black african american, christian, courage, dedication, dream,
Form: I do not know?

No To Century

Tagore and Gandhi were friends hearty,
Gandhi wrote once to Tagore neatly,
"Live long more and more other years twenty,
Wishing Rabindranath Tagore at his eighty,
"How can I carry a century,very heavy this eighty?
Replied Tagore,Mahatma Gandhi adding beauty,
Tagore went to God to carry by his hands at his Eighty,
Leaving a short message to this world of naughty!
Categories: gandhi, hero, life,
Form: Blank verse
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From Father To Son

may not be Socrates, can yet be wise,
may be not Gandhi, but you can be nice,
not like Elton, that does not make you hoarse,
any vista of life, be your own force,
may not be icing, you can still be cake,
in anything you do, be true, not fake!!

written 24/10/2022
10 syllables each line ( PS counter)
6 lines with aabbcc rhyme
Line Gauthier sponsored
Bite size poem 54
Categories: gandhi, culture, family, father son,
Form: Rhyme

Destroyers of Dissidence

Destroyers of Dissidence




Grievous Gandhi 
Reticent Rasputin
Examinating Edison
Ardent Atlas
Tenacious Taoists
Superfluous Shakespeare

                           
                         
                                                                                  


                                                                                       SunshineWilliams
Categories: gandhi, history, how i feel, strength, wisdom,
Form: Acrostic

The Great Mahatma

The saint of Sabarmati
Our great Mahatma Gandhi
Lived a life of simplicity
And marched towards Dandi
For India to attain freedom
He strived day and night
Even attained martyrdom
To keep our future bright
His Quit India movement
And call of ‘Do or Die’
Reminded Indians of their commitment
To the glorious days gone by
The great Mahatma passed away
Holding the entire nation in his sway
Categories: gandhi, dedication
Form: Sonnet
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Dichotomy of the Sword

They lived by the sword and they died by the sword

Sadaam Hussein
Osama Bin Laden
Jeffrey Dahmer

They didn’t live by the sword but died by the sword

Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Trayvon Martin
Jesus Christ

A dichotomy, whose mystery is known only to the whim of human affairs.

12/9/19

If you live by the sword then you die by the sword Poetry Contest
Silent One, Sponsor
Categories: gandhi, fate, irony, life,
Form: Free verse
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Hindus fighting Muslims, and brother slaying brother,

          made peace to save his life, loved more than any other.

               Dear Bapu, your greatest weapons, thereof ...

     the power, nonviolence, the strength ... LOVE.




Written and submitted on January 26, 2019
For the "Educate Me With Humor - Leader Clerihew" Poetry Contest
Andrea Dietrich, Judge & Sponsor.
Categories: gandhi, appreciation, history, love, peace,
Form: Clerihew

Dilemma Shoes Or Suits

African politicians
They buy
Italian suits
When they really
Need shoes
 
I know
That is not making you
Guys 
Smart

We need
Leaders
Not politicians
With bright suits
And bare feet

Guys
What happen
No more like Mandela
OR Gandhi
Our schools
Dry
OR mothers
Change their minds

I don't know
But we should think
What we need
Bright suits
OR 
Pair of shoes
What people is need
Is genuine leaders
Not bad copy
Categories: gandhi, life, people, political, poverty,
Form: ABC
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