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Wanderings: Selected Poems by D.L. Lang

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Publisher:: D.L. Lang
Released:: Jan 9, 2018
ISBN:: 9781370141463
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Wanderings is a chapbook featuring a small sampling of poetry previously published in D.L. Lang’s full length poetry collections. D.L Lang served as the 2017-2019 Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California. It includes award-winning poems that have received ribbons or rosettes at county fairs. It contains poems inspired by Oklahoma, the San Francisco Bay Area, Judaism, and a few of her other favorites selected from her first 9 volumes of poetry.

For more information visit D.L. Lang online at poetryebook.com

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Wanderings: Selected Poems by D.L. Lang

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Length: 50 pages17 minutes

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For more information visit D.L. Lang online at poetryebook.com

Publisher:: D.L. Lang
Released:: Jan 9, 2018
ISBN:: 9781370141463
Format:: Book

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D.L. Lang

D.L. Lang is a contemporary American poet and spoken word artist. The author of over a dozen poetry books, Lang has been writing poetry for over 25 years. She has performed her poetry on stage hundreds of times at protest rallies, county fairs, literary festivals, open mics, poetry circles, bookstores, libraries, and live radio broadcasts.From 2017 to 2019 she served as Vallejo, California's Poet Laureate. Her poems have been awarded with numerous county fair ribbons, transformed into songs, used as liturgy for prayer, and to advocate for peace, justice, and a better world.The scribe of over 1,200 poems from haiku to free verse to masterful rhyme, covering a wide variety of topics, D.L. Lang has poetry that's sure to delight. Lang dabbles in both gritty realism and surrealistic wordplay, sorrowful elegy and uplifting affirmations. Her poetry is a mixture of topical political commentary, religious devotional meditations, and poetic autobiographical memoir. Her words take you on journeys deep into nature, memory, spirituality, and the whisperings of the heart.She is the author of Tea & Sprockets, Abundant Sparks & Personal Archeology, Look Ma! No Hands!, Poet Loiterer, Id Biscuits, Barefoot in the Sanctuary, Armor Against The Dawn, Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays, Resting on My Laurels, The Cafe of Dreams, Midnight Strike, and This Festival of Dreams. She has also released a chapbook compilation entitled Wanderings, a Jewish poetry compilation entitled Paradise Collectors, and her debut spoken word album entitled Happy Accidents, and is the editor of Voices, Verses & Visions of Vallejo.Her poetry has also been published in the Benicia Herald, Poets Are Heroes Magazine, ReformJudaism.org, Poetry Expressed, Frost Meadow Review, and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles. Her poetry has been anthologized in A Poet’s Siddur (Ain’t Got No Press, 2017), Light & Shadow (Benicia Literary Arts, 2018), Marin Poetry Center Anthology, Vol. 21 (2018), and Verses, Voices & Visions of Vallejo (2019).

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Wanderings - D.L. Lang

Oklahoma

Enid

The town in which I came of age

still imprints upon this very page.

Her name translates to soul,

and upon mine she oft doth pull.

Named after an idyll itself,

her history sits upon my shelf.

Enid's dubbed appropriately

from her railroads to her prairie.

The city of my youth has changed

with many buildings rearranged.

Childhood haunts fade into the past

alongside schoolmates who have passed.

No matter the years that I am gone,

upon her stories I am oft drawn.

Hometown for me she may always be,

but I can only visit her in my memory.

Dining With Your Skeleton

From the sweet simplicity of wooden sidewalks of yore—

words intricately woven by that judicious James—

your sweet wheat blows

through the fields where dreamers lay.

The gentle serenade of Hedges

waltzes with the soulful Mitchell,

carrying me beyond those rough days

spent struggling for survival.

How I admire your modern day bards,

as they fly on Pegasys wings,

igniting my soul. I study your myths,

from George to Holden to Roye.

You build the statues of my heart,

painting the dreams unending,

that carry me onward, a rooted rose rock.

I've walked your hallowed halls in exile,

with infamous grey evangelicals,

amid the Roman columns of values,

silhouetted in skies once inspiring

the likes of Cessna and Woodring, that Musketeer.

Placed my feet solid in red

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