Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays E-Book

D.L. Lang

• Herausgeber: D.L. Lang
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays is D.L. Lang's 9th poetry collection. It is comprised of over 100 pages of inspirational, personal, fictional, and political poetry. It contains the poems "The Sixties" and "Lift Off!" which received blue ribbons at the 2017 Marin County Fair, and "Expectations of a Future" which was awarded a Silver Award rosette at the 2017 Alameda County Fair.

Author D.L. Lang's masterful "Dragonfly Tomorrows and Dog-eared Yesterdays" proves just exactly why the talented Author has been crowned poet laureate of California state in the city of Vallejo, leaving us in complete awe with some of the most immaculate verses and compassionate words!
An ingenious visionary and virtuous human moral-compass, Lang makes writing poetry seem effortless, hypnotizing us with fantasy-like analogies that cleverly unravel meaningful and philosophical multi-layered themes. Each theme underlines and mirrors many different colors and faces of life and humanity.
Author D.L. Lang's lovely portraits of inspiration captivate us with beautiful, provoking portrayals of art that appear to symbolize strengths such as ambition, creation and imagination, yet and still, her picturesque illustrations don't shy her away from exposing her core, jagged, blunt truth one bit.
This ironic combination or blend of visual beauty, art and graphics is even more compelling when interwoven with personal, societal and collective humanistic ideas and theories near to the Author's heart. 
We're extremely pleased to present this book with a 5-star rating and encourage you to get your copy today, you won't be let down. We enjoyed the read and believe you will, too!
Original work, Author D.L. Lang, that will surely stand the tests of time
--Excerpt of Realistic Poetry International's 5 Star Review

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Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays

by D.L. Lang

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Copyright © 2017 Diana L. Lang

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Table of Contents

Gratitude

Foreword

The Front Cover Concept

Expectations of a Future

Wildflowers

Dog-eared Yesterdays 

Balcony Dreams 

Celestial Scenes

A Pillow for the Heart

There are...

Holy Stumblings

Spring in the City

Choose to Be 

Parallels 

And If They Can, Why Can't We? 

At the Intersection 

There's a Peace in Slowness 

How to Read Poetry 

The Seeker

Happy Place 

Those of Gentle Hearts 

Traffic Jammer 

Birds in Harmony

Each One of Us 

Dreams Demand 

Go Down Easy 

Yes 

A Circle of Dreams 

The Sixties 

Lift Off!

Dixon May Fair 

Waterfront Observations 

Island Poem 

Generation Transformation 

All I've Got Left of You 

Time Overdrawn 

Bright Light 

Hanukah Train

Blanton-Kiowa Line 

Enid 

Sunrise 

Praying for Rain 

April Foolery 

Anytime 

Hang On to Your Soul 

Sally 

The Talebearer 

Zing 

A Home 

One Two 

Somewhere Beyond 

Personal Evolution 

Like Broken Glass

Moments 

Old Songs 

Sparked by Melody 

Renewed

Awe

As the Sun 

Street Mouse

Class Participation

Beachside

A Napa Moment 

Mall Walker 

epic history poem 

Antisocial Media 

The Way to Contentment 

Humanity 

Brightest 

Greed's Disconnect 

Although 

Ochlocracy 

Politics 

This Earth Day 

Stay Lit

On Fear 

Lines

Dear Land of the Free 

IWWD

What if? 

Radioactive Returns 

Cats on Caravan 

New Old America 

Immigrants’ Truth 

What's It Gonna Take?

Not Your Problem? 

You Cannot See Through Gold 

Where are the Heroes? 

Affirmations of a Dream 

About the Author

Connect with D.L. Lang

Gratitude

This book is dedicated to Tim, basherti, for his love, support, and caring for me.

Thank you to the 2017 Alameda County Fair for awarding “Expectations of a Future” a Silver Award.

The following poems which appear in this book won awards in creative writing at the 2017 Marin County Fair:

"The Sixties", First Place in Flashback to the 60's Poetry

"Lift Off!", First Place in Fair Themed Poetry

"Street Mouse", Second Place in Any other Haiku

"Sally", Third Place in My Pet

My deepest gratitude to the judges.

A huge thanks to local photographer, Jessica Brown, who shot the cover image for this book!

I am truly grateful that you chose to buy this book.

If you enjoyed it, please take the time to review it.

Peace and love to all who read it.

Foreword

Dragonfly Tomorrows & Dog-eared Yesterdays is my 9th poetry collection comprised of poems that were written between December 2016 and June 2017. The title came about as I was stopped at a red light. A local restaurant had a sign on the corner that said, “Catfish Today,” so as a way of passing the time I broke down those words and came up with additional phrases that contained a compound word with an animal and a time period.

My aim with this book was to try to largely be uplifting and distracting as an antidote to the often heartbreaking chaos of the world today, so there are intentionally less topical poems than in previous collections. My two personal favorites of this variety are “Where are the Heroes?” and “Affirmations of a Dream” which close out the book. “Cats on Caravan” and “IWWD” refer to my experience of the Women’s March and Strike.

As I was preparing my entries for area fairs this year, I wrote “Lift Off!” describing the experience of the fair. “The Sixties” was written to fit the theme of the Marin County Fair that is honoring the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. I was not alive in those years, obviously, but tried to write from the perspective of someone who was. It is one period in American history that continues to fascinate me. I’m quite pleased that both were awarded blue ribbons.

I also spent a lot of time reminiscing about my childhood haunt in Enid, Oklahoma, a field down by the railroad tracks that’s now called Oakwood Nature Park, so “Blanton-Kiowa Line” captures the history of that area.  I’ve developed an affinity for train songs, so my husband challenged me to write “Hanukah Train” as we found ourselves listening to old folk songs this past Hanukah.

This volume brings the total of my published poems to 918. While it will be the first book released after being named the 2nd Poet Laureate of Vallejo, California, poems written during that tenure will be released in future books. This milestone provides a natural closing point for this book.

Thanks for reading!

The Front Cover Concept

A penguin superhero in a pose of strength with a sign that says "Save the Humans!"

I have an affinity for penguins, and whenever someone gifts me a penguin toy, my husband and I often joke about how the membership of a fictional group called the Penguin Liberation Front has grown. This fictional group frees penguins from captivity, whether real or artistic representations.

The cape is also a reference to a song that Dan Nichols sang to me in 2015.

The railroad tracks overgrown with wild brush represent both the past, and my affinity for trains which shows up in many poems both in this book and past books.

Jessica Brown brought this vision to life, shooting the cover photo and author photo with me in costume on a very humid August 3rd, 2017 at the Mare Island Nature Preserve in Vallejo.

Although as a child I often wandered live railroad tracks in Oklahoma, these tracks were no longer in use, so it was safe to stand upon them.

Expectations of a Future

We are but overgrown children,

souls colliding,

trained in a time that no longer exists

for a world that never will,

stumbling through our days

with outdated road maps,

clinging to memories

of a previous normality,

encountering the fallacies

of an unpredictable future,

learning to bounce.

Wildflowers

Like wildflowers at roadside

you've a passion you cannot hide.

A splash of rainbow in seas of gray

calmly blooming above the fray

no matter what chaos comes your way.

Dog-eared Yesterdays

Beyond the shooting stars,

across roaring rivers,

over the potato slough.

Moonlight halo in the starlight.

The time is now.

It's gonna be all right.

The daydreams

cycle into night dreams.

Kept awake by happy memories,

giggling and giddy

with thoughts of dragonfly tomorrows,

nestled in the boxes of

dog-eared yesterdays,

and nights strung together

by melodies.