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I SHALL OVERCOME

Tanuja Thakur 1967 (Haldwani)

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I shall rise and wipe my tears,
and one day overcome my fears,
I shall overcome my fears one day.

I shall stoke the embers,
to ignite the fire if I could muster,
I shall stoke the embers one day.

I shall speak out my thoughts ,
that have got buried in the shouts,
I shall speak out my thoughts one day.

I shall satiate the stubborn hunger,
that refuses to listen to any reason,
I shall satiate that hunger one day.

I shall travel to that one place,
where there is no strife but only peace,
I shall travel to that place one day.

I shall find the seer who will unravel,
why we are not born equal,
I shall find that seer one day…

I shall overcome one day
We shall overcome one day…

               Tanuja, 15th August 2022

About this poem

The poem is about the dreams and aspirations of the common man on the independence day of his country

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Submitted by tanujat2003 on September 28, 2022

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXA XBA XXA BXA XXA CCA AA X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 730
Words 163
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1
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Tanuja Thakur

A bureaucrat working for Indian railways living currently in Mumbai, India. She is a traveller at heart and dabbles in poetry written in English and Hindi. more…

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