I recited this poem, “Visions,” at the 10.10.17 Vallejo City Council meeting where I was officially proclaimed and appointed the 2017-2019 Vallejo Poet Laureate.
Visions by D.L. Lang
No photo can quite capture
this moment’s true beauty,
for moments, like all people,
were meant to be free.
Words,
they fail to pinpoint
just what this place means to me,
for words are but stardust
in this universe full of dreams.
How wonderful to have landed
in this corner of the earth,
where the streets are lined
with stories of history and rebirth.
To your visions
of our metropolis
to what she was, is,
and can still be,
Vallejo,
I am grateful
to be a voice among thee,
for together we form a chorus,
praising our beautiful city.
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