Homage to Gandhi


 
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Volume 5 Number 3 (2011): 305-06 
http://www.infactispax.org/journal/ 

 
 

Homage to Gandhi 
 

What do you really need? 

For Gandhi it was the dirt floor, 

the bowl for food, the eyeglasses, 

the staff,  

the verses from the  

Bhagavad-Gita 

imprinted on the brain, the countless 

visitors. 

 

The skill of enduring dust,  

long hot train journeys third class, 

 

conversations conversations conversations 

 

prayer, silence 

 

. . . and a wry, patient joy in 

seeing you and I  



 
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let fall 

whatever cords  

bind heart  

and mind  

and will. 
 

                                                    --Andrew Moss, 2010