Written by Ari Bouse
This land is your land, 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.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From our Lost Wages to the stock exchange
From the cookie cutter suburbs to the water treatment plants
This land was made for my SUV.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From corporate propaganda to the Woodstock Nation
From the self-evident truths to expanded consciousness
This land was made for Liberty.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From crafty politicians to fortune telling
From intellectual constructs to intuitive understanding
This land was made for reciprocity.
This land is your land, this land is my land
From telepathic communication to respecting diversity
From free for service economies to dreaming a New Dream collectively
This land was made for Aquarian Unity.
Text © Ari Bouse
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I really appreciate the diversity of comments thus far. Also, I thought readers might be interested to hear that Woodie Guthrie’s spirit inspired this poem, if that wasn’t already obvious. Also, I feel moved to acknowledge that the complexities of my own ancestry, as well as the universal plight of living on colonized land that was taken from Indigenous People, is not without its paradoxical tension of opposites that we work with everyday. It isn’t easy to reconcile and while it seems implicit, sometimes it’s important to speak up on such mixed-emotional complexities in the spirit of authenticity.
Brilliant!
It’s a nice poem but this land was from The Naitive Americans. You stole it from them.
Thank you Edge of Humanity Magazine for publishing this poem. And Patrick Cole’s comment is especially appreciated. He’s quite the poet and writer himself. What an amazing online community here!
“This land was made for reciprocity”. Love this! Ari Bouse has a compassionate wit that draws you in and sends you out with a smile. Thank you, thank you!