![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Vojvodina.jpg\" "\\"Vojvodina\\"")
The fields of\u00a0Vojvodina are as flat as the world is round\nA fairer land bar Ireland is rarer to be found…
\nBy a tapestry of all the people of the area this land is blessed
\nAnd its borders by the blue Danube itself is caressed…<\/p>\n
The fields of\u00a0Vojvodina are as flat as the world is round
\nA fairer land bar Ireland is rarer to be found…
\nBy a tapestry of all the people of the area this land is blessed
\nAnd its borders by the blue Danube itself is caressed…<\/p>\n
A tinderbox under bad leaders, waiting to explode
\nAll peaceful now… but quickly can go the other road
\nHopefully all will learn a lesson from the years before
\nAnd let the politics of hatred not make these lands land of bloodshed any more<\/p>\n
Look with love to your brother, though your faith and tongue are not the same,
\nLook for the solution to the fault, not for someone to blame,
\nToo many have grieved for their lost, their dead…
\nMy god guide you and keep you in these troubled times ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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