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Tribe

Jawaid Juneja

This here the man

his body a vessel,
ancestral hopes ensconced within it

deeply rooted, entwined with his very flesh,
his very being

The compulsion as much of him as the tide
being drawn in by the moon

he toils and he transcends
he walks alongside his ancestors

To his elders he exclaims, ‘I'm here, am I not?’

the burden, heavy on the chest,
unspoken

The Man’s Man.

About this poem

The poem is about my late father who migrated with his extended family from Uganda to the United Kingdom. His migration links him to his previous generation, namely his father and grandfather who migrated from India to Uganda. The poem draws on how the hopes of his ancestors are now contained within him. This burden is a heavy one, and my father's generation was one to speak about their feelings.

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Submitted by on August 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A XX XX XX XX X XX A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 365
Words 69
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1
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