mandag 4. februar 2013

We store up light. I'm still eager to go to those parts full of wonder.


I'm still eager to go
To those parts full of wonder and good
Where I once used to grow,
Where it's seven
Verses up to heaven,
All the way through one big, thick wood.

Where the inlets of a lakes
Are the home of the swan,
Where the white tundra makes
People think of the natures done. 


Where the winds whirl all round
Piling snowdrifts waist-deep,
And the Pole's just beyond
An Arkhangelsk street.


Life up here in the North
Isn't like in the South;
Honey doesn't quite flow
As in tales, past our mouth.


Nothing's wrong with the sea-
Fish in plenty,
But, mind -
No one's hauled in a Gold Fish -
They're too hard to find.


Not always are oranges
Served here for lunch,
And there's no magic coins
to buy them to munch.


To take off one's fur mittens
In the frost causes pain.
Deer and horses haul loads here
snorting under latitudes, dearly.


Nights are long, past endurance.
Summers, though, are light.
We store up enough light then
For the long winter night.

















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