5 Inspiring Poems on Gandhi Jayanti for School Children

1. 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. 

2. 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!”

3. 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. 

4. Come Again …

by Ramesh Makwana

O, Teacher of truth and non violence
You loved peace and patience.
Taught unity, honesty and equality,
Loved cleanliness and simplicity.

O, Bapu, look at our nation
Unfortunately forgot your lesson.
People like corruption and dishonesty
Forgot non- violence and equality

O, Bapu, Come again to our country,
Remind our values and history.
Recognise current enemies of Nation
They are terrorism, corruption and inflation

O Pyare Bapu, accept our invitation,
Come again, once again, let’s fight for nation.

[We are remembering values taught by Gandhi Bapu to us. Looking at current situation of our country, we (Children) are requesting bapu to come again on this earth]

5. The Man of the Millenium

by Shri.V.Muthu Manickam

Non-violence, he didn’t discover
Rather, he only got it recover

He practiced what he preached
He preached what he practiced

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 endeavor 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!