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Poems
Under the Rose Arch
Author: Johan Maltesson
Twenty-First Century Winter
Scandinavia - Land of the North
Former home of Santa Claus
He has moved to the North Pole now
Only the darkness remains
The land is green in December
No cover for the resting soil
The fields are naked in the roaring winds
Only the darkness remains
No more sledges for Yuletide
No more skis for the slopes
The snowmen have gone exctinct
Only the darkness remains
Our world has changed
No more winter here
No more ice, no snow
Only the darkness remains
It is twenty-first century winter in southern Scandinavia
In Copenhagen important people met
To talk about if climate change is real
While only the darkness remained
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