Mind Manifests!

If  changing your mindset changes your reality
(I believe it does) then I nominate "This Land is
Your Land" for national anthem.
I have thought for a very long time how "The
Star Spangled Banner" rattles the drums of war.
If we want PEACE and brother/sisterhood, we
must sing the words of peace for songs are like
prayers and words manifest.
The Star Spangled Banner can remain a glorified
part of our history when war/violence was necessary
to our freedom, but to evolve we must find more
peaceful, diplomatic paths.
Take another look at the lyrics and see what you
think. Can you agree with me? Please write and
let me know.

This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie

This land is your land and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I went walking that ribbon of highway
And I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me

I roamed and rambled and I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
All around me a voice was a-sounding
This land was made for you and me

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said "private property"
But on the back side it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me

When the sun come shining, then I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting as the fog was lifting
This land was made for you and me

This land is your land and this land is my land
From California to the New York island
From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me

The Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key

Oh say can you see,
By the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed,
At the twilight's last gleaming?

Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched,
Were so gallantly streaming.

And thy rocket's red glare,
Thy bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through thee night,
That our flag was still there.

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.

P.S. If Woody's words are just too much for you, perhaps "America, the Beautiful?"

raintreepoet. June 2016