Satis Shroff Poems

LOST FRIENDSHIPS (Satis Shroff)

When old friends
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A WALTZ WITH YOU (Satis Shroff)
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ALPINE GRATITUDE (Satis Shroff)

The hamlets are scattered,
Tucked away in the side valleys and spurs
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THE HARVEST FESTIVAL (Satis Shroff)

Erntedank is the harvest festival,
The German Thanksgiving,
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A Lass from a Volcano Isle (Satis Shroff)


I come from a volcano isle on the Atlantic
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Sylt at Dawn (Satis Shroff)

You hear the waves
As they splash onto the shore.
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‘You’re not going to get away this time.
And you’ll never ever bring a Nepalese child
To a Bombay brothel, ’ I said to myself.
I’d killed a man who’d betrayed me
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As the Breisgau-train dashes in the Black Forest,
Between Elztal and Freiburg,
I am with my thoughts in South Asia.
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500 years ago near the town of Kashgar,
I, a stranger in local clothes was captured
By the sturdy riders of Vali Khan.
What was a stranger
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A German professor wooed me
And said I could still do my creative writing work
If, and when, I married him.
I said 'Ja' and gave birth to five children,
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