Birthday Wishes for My Country (poem) by larry r linville on AuthorsDen

Birthday Wishes for My Country
by larry r linville → (All Poetry by larry r linville)
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I celebrate our nation's birthday with a short verse.
What do you want for your birthday? we ask our family and friends. Perhaps we should ask our nation before Independence Day ends. We can give some small gifts to her for all she has given to us. Perhaps we can highlight her good points rather than just sit around and cuss. I’ll bet she would really like it if we lived the faith that we claim showing more love and compassion instead of all our words of blame. Maybe we can try to get along with people who have other views while working on things in common bringing about a lot of good news. We could try to live like Jesus with forgiveness our primarily goal caring for the needs of each other as we help true justice to roll. Let’s take time out from hot dogs, swimming, fireworks, parades and flag and realize we can be humble while we lift up our voices to brag.

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron

Reviewed on August 6, 2012

You say things that ought ot be said, Larry. Too many looking for things to find fault with and not enough looking for common ground.

Chip Bergeron

Reviewed by Diana Legun (Reader)

Reviewed on July 4, 2012

I like this piece very much. Especially the "...try to get along/with people who have other views/" Bringing about good news....that is the key all right. Change the view from bad news to good news and see what happens. Thank you. ~~Diana

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

It's still the greatest country in the world to live in. If it wasn't for our freedom we wouldn't have so many viewpoints on every subject under the sun like whether or not to celebrate with fireworks when so many parts of the country are so dry. Let's hope that the only fireworks we see in our skies are those of celebrations like this and not battle like Francis Scott Key.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson

Reviewed on July 3, 2012

Larry,
hear..hear
Budd