4 Best Gandhi Jayanti Poems 2024 For Students

For students, Gandhi Jayanti is an important occasion to learn about the values that Gandhi upheld and the role he played in shaping India’s freedom. One meaningful way to honour Gandhi’s legacy is through poetry, a form that captures the essence of his teachings and ideals.

4 Inspirational Gandhi Jayanti 2024 Poems

Here are some inspirational poems that students can recite, reflect on, and draw lessons from on Gandhi Jayanti:

1. ‘Satyagraha’ - by Devarakshanam Govinden

“You stood tall and still, clad in loincloth,
Stripped bare of pomp, and the garlands of adulation.
You took command and spoke in clear and simple words
Believing in the force of your ideas
Rather than of a gun.
Soul force - Is not the weapon of the weak
But the weapon of the strong.
Soul force - When will and heart,
And body and mind, work in unison.
Soul force - That alone could prevail
Against the gates of hell.
Fired not with hate for the Other, but with love
For wholeness and humanity.
With the strength to say,
“Enough!
We will not be trampled on like dust.
We will be free!”

2. ‘The Man of the Millenium’ - by Shri.V.Muthu Manickam

“Non-violence, he didn't discover
Rather, he only got it recover
He practised what he preached
He preached what he practised
He experimented himself, to awake
He learnt from his own mistake
His autobiography was an experiment with truth
That remains to attract even the youth
He stood with his endeavour for truth, as firm
His success, time proved to affirm
With Gandhi, non-violence became a new medium
For he is regarded as the man of the millennium!”

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3. ‘Salutation To The Father of The Nation’ - by Anil Deshpande

“O, thou, father of the nation,
We owe you salutation.
For each and everything that you did;
For the cause of the nation and freedom's seed;
For the wheel called 'CHARKHA', the steering of 'SWADESHI';
For the drive of 'CHALE JAO', to expel 'VIDESHI';
For the teachings of truth, nonviolence and peace;
For the messages of cleanliness & patience against tease.
Guided thou, for listening not , seeing not, speaking not an evil;
Still one of us only, dared you kill.
Gone might be you but not your thoughts;
Forever, they'll inspire, like lustrous spots.
Therefore, O, thou, father of the nation,
We owe you salutation;
With lotuses of hearts of a hundred plus crores;
From the peak of the Himalayas to the ocean's roars;
O, thou father of the nation,
We owe you salutation,
We owe you salutation.”

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4. ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ - by Vijayalakshmi K.

“Friends, today we come together
To salute a saint, nay a father,
Staying in an ashram in Sabarmati,
Bapu taught us to have strength through unity.
His smile had serenity,
And his actions had severity.
“Practise what you preach” was his maxim,
Truth and honesty were his realm.
Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians are all one,
This is what we have to remember,
If we want our country to be no.1.
Bapu, I wish you would come here to the terrorists,
We are one country, no caste or creed,
Love, respect and tolerance is what we all need.
Bapu, I hope our country keeps progressing
For that we want your blessing.”

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