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For the love of Orange - Ershad Ahamed Chemmalaseri

 

As the orb sets out,
For its usual errand,
On the land that saw Rembrandt,
The tulips bloom to light the Gothic.

Bicycles are common as the goodmen;
And rain brings the true colors of Koppen,
For all the homines manentes in the Oranje City.
Protected by dikes and moats.

Shining and tolerant,
the country sprouts joy;
When the old beer froths out,
we see through the minds in Haarlem.

Many wonders of civilian huts,
are built on the foundations of science,
They hold strong as the winds blow,
Energising the entire Dutchland

Museums are where the present meets the past;
Van Gogh impresses the art till the eternity.
To all the maggots in fraternity,
There aint a skill or spell that the Dutch couldn't cast.

-      Ershad Ahamed Chemmalasseri