satbir bakshi Poems

Dulce Et, Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori
Its sweet and proper to die for one's country

Blood looks violet on fresh snow
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Teach your Children Well
Teach them All your dreams
Children are small kites
They try to soar high and
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Memories mostly make for
The strangest of dreams-
Those that more often than not tend to go awry,
Making the silly mind wonder
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Bacchus? ? ?
Why do they call you that?
My answer is straight and flat
Once a simple soul comes into your arms
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EL HIJO – THE SON

Now hear me first
Before you claim
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AMBITION

Ambition~ sweet sweet and so neat
But~
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Once in the winter snows
We promised
To meet again
You standing
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Ask the dust
What you must
But ain't it a fact
That life is never just
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I remember with a tremor
In my heart
On a cold winter morning with
The fog enveloping everything
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This was originally written in German and was loved by the German and the Allied soldiers alike as Lilly to most was a street walker but she was the soldier's one true love

Underneath the lantern, by the barrack gate
Darling I remember, The way you used to wait
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