Poems from the book Poet Loiterer, Poetry

Poetic Timing

D.L. Lang performing at San Mateo County Fair

2019 San Mateo County Fair Literary Stage

This is one of my favorites to perform, and I have done so from memory at Poetry Out Loud in 2019, Solano County Library Foundation’s Why Poetry event in 2018, and most recently on the San Mateo County fair’s literary stage. It appears in the book Poet Loiterer.

Poetic Timing

Poetry never comes at a convenient time.

It shows up in the shower as a silly rhyme.

It reveals itself to me

when I’m hiking around.

It comes to me at services

when I’m making prayerful sounds.

It weaves its way into my psyche

when I’m driving in the country.

It interrupts conversations

and it demands to be heard.

But when I sit with pen and paper,

it never says a word.

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From Unity to Community

Thank you, Marin County Fair, for awarding this poem 3rd place in Any Other Poetry!

(My favorite poem I’ve ever written, “Headline Antidote” also received 5th place in this category!)

From Unity To Community

In a twirling rainbow of humanity,

love surrounded hate’s insanity.

Working together for utopia now.

Can’t wait any longer, anyhow.

Mind’s eye filled with vision.

Feet springing into action,

dancing toward tomorrow,

with songs of joyous unison.

Plant the seeds of peace

in holy soils ripe for flowers.

Poet Loiterer

$14.99eBook: $5.99

Author: D.L. Lang
Series: Poetry Paperbacks, Book 5
Genre: Poetry
Tag: Recommended Books
Publication Year: 2015
Length: 180 pages
ASIN: B0797HZBBD
ISBN: 1518713246

Poet Loiterer is D.L. Lang's fifth poetry book. This 180 page collection features nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

About the Book

Local bookstores and libraries often provide venues for poets and local authors, and many of them have invited me to read over the years, so when possible, please shop local! Any bookstore should be able to special order it for you using the ISBN, so please utilize your local independent bookshop. The book is also available through interlibrary loan. Check WorldCat for which libraries currently carry this title. Reviews of Poet Loiterer: “Lang’s themes include wanderlust, love for nature (and especially hiking in the California hills), religious devotion, paying the bills versus living the artist’s life, and transforming from a passive pacifist to an activist. “You gave me lungs, / so that I might breathe peace” expresses forthright praise to God in “What You Created,” and elsewhere, verse expresses delight in Jewish practice: “There’s music and Torah both running through my soul,” she observes–a quirky combination that brings to mind a Jewish Janis Joplin. In the satirical “Doves in Season,” the traditional peace symbol is being hunted. “Fear not the rocking boat,” another poem advises, encouraging readers to question racism, capitalism, and America’s reliance on weapons. There’s “More than one way to be an American,” the poem “Headline Antidote” insists; indeed, this collection imagines a peaceful, joyful future America.” — Kirkus Reviews Read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dl-lang/poet-loiterer/ Preview on Google Books Description: The title Poet Loiterer is a joke between my husband and I, that I am not anyone’s Poet Laureate, but a poet who, as a result of health issues, spends most of her time loitering around town, home, synagogue, doctors’ offices, and when I feel up to it, hiking, lots and lots of hiking! This book is a pastry, fluffy with a chocolate center. This entire book was written in 2015 in various locations around the Bay Area, which is a first, as my previous books had also contained many old poems that I’d written as a kid. This is all me at age 31/32 with poems created from April – November 2015. It starts out with “To Get Free” which won Best of Show at the Solano County Fair in 2015. It is a diverse 180 page volume with nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

The cover photograph of my loitering outside my synagogue was generously donated and was taken on December 4, 2015 by Norm Levin of Natural Portraits and Events. Grab it on Amazon! Complete list of poems included in this volume: To Get Free Songs In The Key Of Grief Mare Island Poet Loiterer Essentially Unemployable Reassurance Railway Meditation Mind Wanderer Muir Beached Strangers Immersed Seasons Unanswered Idleness In The Artist’s Playground Going Why I Hike Wanderlust After 20 Pier Dreams City Hiking If This New Year From Unity To Community The Swamps Of Patriot Day What Of The Forest? Live A Little The Only Thing That I Need A Pretty Good Day The Key To Light Lighting Up In Tune Holy Songs Incomparable Joy Transforming Tunes Melodies Forever Community Together Retreat One Weekend Contentment Thrown Overboard I’m Not Lost, But You Found Me Higher Songs Rebooting My Soul Unplugged Returning To The Place Of My Heart Midnight Guardian Staying Wrapped Inside Your Presence Praying Out Loud Legendary Consumed There Must Be An Answer Now Surrender I’ve Half A Mind To… Are We Free? Are You Paying Attention? Statues Meant For? Memorial Day Urgency Headline Antidote Unity Ain’t Nothing Changed? Clarity Warrior Ancestors We Never Build Just One Flags Of Hate There Are No Words Endurance Conformity Farmer’s Market Uprising High Sympathy Naked Personality This Independence Day Fair Pillars Of The Past Doves In Season: A Love Poem To Nature’s Restoration Humanity Searching To Dream Escapism Opener You Are The Connector My Haunted Friend Mindful Clouds What Is Life? Meteors O’pink Uncontrollable Flame Poetic Timing Penguin Child Writer Child Why I Art Poetry Rains Sometimes There After Dark When It Feels Right Hold Back Life Worthy Narrative Existence Honest Accounting My Beloved Accidental Love Poem Soulmate Descriptor Love Is Not Regret Farewell Eat Your Fears Host Poet What Is There? Smattering Of Mattering Vallejo Days The Day After Storm The Road Webbing Water Beyond The Fence Once Upon A Dog Bottle Of Mine Penguin Season Blues Journal Dilemma On Staying In United Divided By Chocolate Sparks Aligned What Must Be Giver Loneliness Sprouts Doubt A Future In It Life Worth, Life’s Work Origin Point Customer Service For Existence Simmering Moments Disappointing You Old Songs from Another Lifetime Perspectives Old Fashioned Behind These Digital Walls Pretty Pictures Technology Pushers Of POV A Festive Apology What You Created Dan

Hi! Enjoying what you’re reading? Please consider buying a book, or using the donation button on the sidebar. Poets aren’t always compensated for our performances and efforts, and doing so would help out greatly and ensure this website stays around for years to come.

All of my gigs have been cancelled until further notice. Please stay safe everyone. If you would like to support me at this time, please consider buying one of my books from your favorite online retailer.

About the Author

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).

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the page above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

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County Fair Winners, Poems from the book Poet Loiterer, Poetry

Fair

Thank you, Marin County Fair for awarding this poem 2nd place in Fair Themed Poetry!

Fair

I spent hours hiking to renew my soul,

seeking freedom from traffic jams.

Tonight I did not perform,

but I don’t feel forlorn.

I wandered the county fair,

rode the wheel up in the air

as a microcosm of America

in Spanish and English, smiling

at each other—what fun!

Flying high in a gondola,

in the sweet summer sun.

Viewing the pathways to joy,

admiring local art awards,

hiding from the scorching heat,

I saw the sign of my future

on a passing shirt.

It said: “No mistakes. Just happy accidents!”

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California Poems, County Fair Winners, Peace Poems, Poems from the book Poet Loiterer, Poetry

Headline Antidote

“Headline Antidote” is my favorite poem that I have ever written, and is published in the book, Poet Loiterer. It is an attempt to answer the question what can regular folks do in a painful world with so many negative headlines except to be a rebel in favor of goodness. It’s one of my favorites to perform, and I have at many places, including at the Vallejo Man March on March 12, 2016, and the 2nd Rodef Sholom Beit Cafe in December 2015.

“Headline Antidote” also won 5th place in Any Other Poetry at the 2016 Marin County Fair.

Headline Antidote

Be a rebel for righteousness,
a leader for love,
a troublemaker for the truth,
not a hawk, but a dove!

More than one way to be human,
so many ways to understand.
Join all your hands together,
and march across this land.

Be an agitator for awesome,
a hustler for the heart,
an outcast for open-mindedness,
whatever you do – just start!

More than one way to be an American.
Patriotic pacifists-no weapons in our hands!
Here’s to building better times!
Yes, you know that we can!

Poet Loiterer

$14.99eBook: $5.99

Author: D.L. Lang
Series: Poetry Paperbacks, Book 5
Genre: Poetry
Tag: Recommended Books
Publication Year: 2015
Length: 180 pages
ASIN: B0797HZBBD
ISBN: 1518713246

Poet Loiterer is D.L. Lang's fifth poetry book. This 180 page collection features nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

About the Book

Local bookstores and libraries often provide venues for poets and local authors, and many of them have invited me to read over the years, so when possible, please shop local! Any bookstore should be able to special order it for you using the ISBN, so please utilize your local independent bookshop. The book is also available through interlibrary loan. Check WorldCat for which libraries currently carry this title.

Reviews of Poet Loiterer:

“Lang’s themes include wanderlust, love for nature (and especially hiking in the California hills), religious devotion, paying the bills versus living the artist’s life, and transforming from a passive pacifist to an activist. “You gave me lungs, / so that I might breathe peace” expresses forthright praise to God in “What You Created,” and elsewhere, verse expresses delight in Jewish practice: “There’s music and Torah both running through my soul,” she observes–a quirky combination that brings to mind a Jewish Janis Joplin. In the satirical “Doves in Season,” the traditional peace symbol is being hunted. “Fear not the rocking boat,” another poem advises, encouraging readers to question racism, capitalism, and America’s reliance on weapons. There’s “More than one way to be an American,” the poem “Headline Antidote” insists; indeed, this collection imagines a peaceful, joyful future America.” — Kirkus Reviews

Read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dl-lang/poet-loiterer/

Preview on Google Books

Description:

The title Poet Loiterer is a joke between my husband and I, that I am not anyone’s Poet Laureate, but a poet who, as a result of health issues, spends most of her time loitering around town, home, synagogue, doctors’ offices, and when I feel up to it, hiking, lots and lots of hiking!

This book is a pastry, fluffy with a chocolate center. This entire book was written in 2015 in various locations around the Bay Area, which is a first, as my previous books had also contained many old poems that I’d written as a kid. This is all me at age 31/32 with poems created from April – November 2015.

It starts out with “To Get Free” which won Best of Show at the Solano County Fair in 2015. It is a diverse 180 page volume with nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

Poet Loiterer
The cover photograph of my loitering outside my synagogue was generously donated and was taken on December 4, 2015 by Norm Levin of Natural Portraits and Events.

Grab it on Amazon!

Complete list of poems included in this volume:

To Get Free

Songs In The Key Of Grief

Mare Island

Poet Loiterer

Essentially Unemployable

Reassurance

Railway Meditation

Mind Wanderer

Muir

Beached Strangers

Immersed

Seasons

Unanswered

Idleness In The Artist’s Playground

Going

Why I Hike

Wanderlust

After 20

Pier Dreams

City Hiking

If

This New Year

From Unity To Community

The Swamps Of Patriot Day

What Of The Forest?

Live A Little

The Only Thing That I Need

A Pretty Good Day

The Key To Light

Lighting Up

In Tune

Holy Songs

Incomparable Joy

Transforming Tunes

Melodies

Forever

Community

Together

Retreat

One Weekend

Contentment

Thrown Overboard

I’m Not Lost, But You Found Me

Higher Songs

Rebooting My Soul

Unplugged

Returning

To The Place Of My Heart

Midnight Guardian

Staying Wrapped Inside Your Presence

Praying Out Loud

Legendary

Consumed

There Must Be An Answer

Now

Surrender

I’ve Half A Mind To…

Are We Free?

Are You Paying Attention?

Statues

Meant For?

Memorial Day

Urgency

Headline Antidote

Unity

Ain’t Nothing Changed?

Clarity

Warrior Ancestors

We Never Build Just One

Flags Of Hate

There Are No Words

Endurance

Conformity

Farmer’s Market Uprising

High Sympathy

Naked Personality

This Independence Day

Fair

Pillars Of The Past

Doves In Season: A Love Poem To Nature’s Restoration

Humanity

Searching

To Dream

Escapism

Opener

You Are The Connector

My Haunted Friend

Mindful Clouds

What Is Life?

Meteors O’pink

Uncontrollable Flame

Poetic Timing

Penguin Child

Writer Child

Why I Art

Poetry Rains

Sometimes

There

After Dark

When It Feels Right

Hold Back

Life

Worthy

Narrative Existence

Honest Accounting

My Beloved

Accidental Love Poem

Soulmate Descriptor

Love Is Not Regret

Farewell

Eat Your Fears

Host Poet

What Is There?

Smattering Of Mattering

Vallejo Days

The Day After

Storm

The Road

Webbing Water

Beyond The Fence

Once Upon A Dog

Bottle Of Mine

Penguin Season Blues

Journal Dilemma

On Staying In

United Divided By Chocolate

Sparks Aligned

What Must Be

Giver

Loneliness Sprouts Doubt

A Future In It

Life Worth, Life’s Work

Origin Point

Customer Service For Existence

Simmering

Moments

Disappointing You

Old Songs from Another Lifetime

Perspectives

Old Fashioned

Behind These Digital Walls

Pretty Pictures

Technology

Pushers Of POV

A Festive Apology

What You Created

Dan

Hi! Enjoying what you’re reading? Please consider buying a book, or using the donation button on the sidebar. Poets aren’t always compensated for our performances and efforts, and doing so would help out greatly and ensure this website stays around for years to come.

All of my gigs have been cancelled until further notice. Please stay safe everyone. If you would like to support me at this time, please consider buying one of my books from your favorite online retailer.

About the Author

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).

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the page above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

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County Fair Winners, Poems from the book Poet Loiterer, Poetry

To Get Free – 2015 Solano County Fair Best of Show in Poetry

This poem won 1st place for unpublished poetry and took Best of Show for poetry at the Solano County Fair in 2015. It is now the first poem in my latest book, Poet Loiterer.

To Get Free

C’mon, baby, hit the reset button on your soul.
Do what you love, and not what you’re told.
If you want to get free, you gotta save your own soul.
Fall into the joy. Fall into the flow.
Once you found it, don’t ever let it go.
Let go of those troubles that weigh in your heart.
Ain’t nobody going to hate you for doing your art.
You gotta know what they see just ain’t the same.
You were made to be on fire, just set aflame.
You’ll never fit in to some cookie cutter notion.
Let go of the rules and set yourself in motion.
You got it, and you know that you do, too.
Let yourself believe in everything–woohoo!
There are no limits. It’s all in your head.
It takes a lot of discipline once you get outta bed.
“It’s a lot of work, but it’s more fun,” he said.
Look in the mirror, kid. You’re far from dead.
So rise, rise, rise, and fly, fly far away,
far from those who got nothing but garbage to say.
They haven’t a clue just what you can do.
Hey, man, they don’t even really know you.
You’ve been immersed in your path since the day you were born.
You survived, kid, so it’s no time to mourn.
Jump for joy, dance that inner song, and find a way,
just find your own beautiful way to move on.

Poet Loiterer

$14.99eBook: $5.99

Author: D.L. Lang
Series: Poetry Paperbacks, Book 5
Genre: Poetry
Tag: Recommended Books
Publication Year: 2015
Length: 180 pages
ASIN: B0797HZBBD
ISBN: 1518713246

Poet Loiterer is D.L. Lang's fifth poetry book. This 180 page collection features nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

About the Book

Local bookstores and libraries often provide venues for poets and local authors, and many of them have invited me to read over the years, so when possible, please shop local! Any bookstore should be able to special order it for you using the ISBN, so please utilize your local independent bookshop. The book is also available through interlibrary loan. Check WorldCat for which libraries currently carry this title.

Reviews of Poet Loiterer:

“Lang’s themes include wanderlust, love for nature (and especially hiking in the California hills), religious devotion, paying the bills versus living the artist’s life, and transforming from a passive pacifist to an activist. “You gave me lungs, / so that I might breathe peace” expresses forthright praise to God in “What You Created,” and elsewhere, verse expresses delight in Jewish practice: “There’s music and Torah both running through my soul,” she observes–a quirky combination that brings to mind a Jewish Janis Joplin. In the satirical “Doves in Season,” the traditional peace symbol is being hunted. “Fear not the rocking boat,” another poem advises, encouraging readers to question racism, capitalism, and America’s reliance on weapons. There’s “More than one way to be an American,” the poem “Headline Antidote” insists; indeed, this collection imagines a peaceful, joyful future America.” — Kirkus Reviews

Read the full review here: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dl-lang/poet-loiterer/

Preview on Google Books

Description:

The title Poet Loiterer is a joke between my husband and I, that I am not anyone’s Poet Laureate, but a poet who, as a result of health issues, spends most of her time loitering around town, home, synagogue, doctors’ offices, and when I feel up to it, hiking, lots and lots of hiking!

This book is a pastry, fluffy with a chocolate center. This entire book was written in 2015 in various locations around the Bay Area, which is a first, as my previous books had also contained many old poems that I’d written as a kid. This is all me at age 31/32 with poems created from April – November 2015.

It starts out with “To Get Free” which won Best of Show at the Solano County Fair in 2015. It is a diverse 180 page volume with nature poems, protest poems, spiritual poems, and story poems.

Poet Loiterer
The cover photograph of my loitering outside my synagogue was generously donated and was taken on December 4, 2015 by Norm Levin of Natural Portraits and Events.

Grab it on Amazon!

Complete list of poems included in this volume:

To Get Free

Songs In The Key Of Grief

Mare Island

Poet Loiterer

Essentially Unemployable

Reassurance

Railway Meditation

Mind Wanderer

Muir

Beached Strangers

Immersed

Seasons

Unanswered

Idleness In The Artist’s Playground

Going

Why I Hike

Wanderlust

After 20

Pier Dreams

City Hiking

If

This New Year

From Unity To Community

The Swamps Of Patriot Day

What Of The Forest?

Live A Little

The Only Thing That I Need

A Pretty Good Day

The Key To Light

Lighting Up

In Tune

Holy Songs

Incomparable Joy

Transforming Tunes

Melodies

Forever

Community

Together

Retreat

One Weekend

Contentment

Thrown Overboard

I’m Not Lost, But You Found Me

Higher Songs

Rebooting My Soul

Unplugged

Returning

To The Place Of My Heart

Midnight Guardian

Staying Wrapped Inside Your Presence

Praying Out Loud

Legendary

Consumed

There Must Be An Answer

Now

Surrender

I’ve Half A Mind To…

Are We Free?

Are You Paying Attention?

Statues

Meant For?

Memorial Day

Urgency

Headline Antidote

Unity

Ain’t Nothing Changed?

Clarity

Warrior Ancestors

We Never Build Just One

Flags Of Hate

There Are No Words

Endurance

Conformity

Farmer’s Market Uprising

High Sympathy

Naked Personality

This Independence Day

Fair

Pillars Of The Past

Doves In Season: A Love Poem To Nature’s Restoration

Humanity

Searching

To Dream

Escapism

Opener

You Are The Connector

My Haunted Friend

Mindful Clouds

What Is Life?

Meteors O’pink

Uncontrollable Flame

Poetic Timing

Penguin Child

Writer Child

Why I Art

Poetry Rains

Sometimes

There

After Dark

When It Feels Right

Hold Back

Life

Worthy

Narrative Existence

Honest Accounting

My Beloved

Accidental Love Poem

Soulmate Descriptor

Love Is Not Regret

Farewell

Eat Your Fears

Host Poet

What Is There?

Smattering Of Mattering

Vallejo Days

The Day After

Storm

The Road

Webbing Water

Beyond The Fence

Once Upon A Dog

Bottle Of Mine

Penguin Season Blues

Journal Dilemma

On Staying In

United Divided By Chocolate

Sparks Aligned

What Must Be

Giver

Loneliness Sprouts Doubt

A Future In It

Life Worth, Life’s Work

Origin Point

Customer Service For Existence

Simmering

Moments

Disappointing You

Old Songs from Another Lifetime

Perspectives

Old Fashioned

Behind These Digital Walls

Pretty Pictures

Technology

Pushers Of POV

A Festive Apology

What You Created

Dan

Hi! Enjoying what you’re reading? Please consider buying a book, or using the donation button on the sidebar. Poets aren’t always compensated for our performances and efforts, and doing so would help out greatly and ensure this website stays around for years to come.

All of my gigs have been cancelled until further notice. Please stay safe everyone. If you would like to support me at this time, please consider buying one of my books from your favorite online retailer.

About the Author

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).

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the page above are "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive an affiliate commission. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

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Poetic Timing

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Fair

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Headline Antidote

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To Get Free – 2015 Solano County Fair Best of Show in Poetry

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