This Day Today: Inspiring Poems from the Heart

By Doris Washington

This Day Today is a book of poems that touch the heart with hope, faith, inspiration, and love.

Each poem inspires you to live each day full of promise and to always find the joy in every moment of life. The author shares her thoughts about holding on to hope that is so expressed in the poem “As a Flower Blooms,” “Hope Lives,” and in the poem “Beyond the Sunset.”

The author shares how we can find love through hope each day for even brighter tomorrows. And as a mother of a son who has autism, the author dedicates two poems for autism awareness—“The Child That Plays Alone” and “Could You Sing a Song for Them?” In the poems “Beyond the Clouds” and “Direction,” the author expresses the most positive life is a blessed life. With the author’s poems of hope, inspiration, and love, you will find that This Day Today is a true gift that encourages and inspires us to find the joy in truly living life more fulfilled.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 21, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524566418

Doris Washington

Doris Washington is a spiritual writer, author, poet, and disability advocate who resides in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with her husband and son John. Doris takes the inspiration for her poetry from an unfortunate incident involving her 18-year-old son with autism and two police officers in December 1993. Her son was peeking in a window of his own home when two officers approached him. The two officers held her son on the ground with handcuffs, and he suffered a separated shoulder. The two officers were not aware of her son’s disability. This unfortunate incident impacted Doris’life greatly. She was empowered to advocate for a statewide training program for police officers to be aware of and recognize persons with special needs. And it was through this painful period in Doris’ life her writing began. Doris has found peace and healing through her poetry. Her husband is her anchor of support and best friend. Her son is her inspiration to write. She has written over 600 poems. In 1997 she wrote her first poem Invisible. She writes poems about her closeness with God, spirituality, autism awareness, inspirations, positive thinking, social issues in our world, and greetings. She is an entrepreneur of DORIS’POEMS. She does readings at nursing homes, residential home facilities, churches, schools, and community. She has self-published seven books of poems A Blessing, Caring & Sharing and Faith, Hope & Love, The Joy In The Morning And A New Day Begins / A Time, A Season and Always Love / The Beauty of Love / This Day Today/ Where There’s Hope- There’s Love. Her book, A Blessing, Caring & Sharing has received much writing achievement success such as: the listing in The NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS MAGAZINE in 2008, and its achievement of commercial success that was posted in the Scripps College Newsletter in Claremont, California in February 2011. Doris also received a letter of acknowledgement from President Barack Obama in April 2009 for her poem This Day, A Promise, A Dream Fulfilled, that she wrote in honor of President Obama. She has also received letters of acknowledgement for her poem The Sun Still Shines In The Morning from Mayor Michael Bloomberg in honor of September 11, 2001, and the poem is submitted in the 911 Memorial Museum of New York. Also she has received a letter of acknowledgement from former President Bill Clinton for her poem For The Children that she dedicated for the people of Haiti Earthquake Relief in March 2010. She has also been honored to receive the Inspirational Leader Award of 2013 for her contributions of her poetry as an inspiration to others in her community and around the country by leaders in the Greater Harrisburg Region. With her newly released and eight book collection of poems, I Wish To Live Life, she shares poems that are many of her readers and her favorites, as well as poems of tribute to those who inspire her, such as; The Conductor, tribute to Harriett Tubman. She is currently doing book signings at many Barnes & Noble locations across the country. Doris continues to travel to numerous book signings over 500 book signings to date. Her desire hopes her poems will continue to inspire many all over the world.

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Copyright © 2016 by Doris Washington.

Book Cover & Photographs by Joni Meyers.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2016920124

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5245-6643-2

                Softcover         978-1-5245-6642-5

                eBook              978-1-5245-6641-8

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Poem In Honor Of Emma Buchanan A Flower For You

The Child That Plays Alone In Dedication to Autism

Could You Sing A Song For Them? In Dedication to Autism

Beyond The Sunset

May We Come To Love

The Way of Love

Always With Your Heart

The Beauty Of Love

Love

Hold On To Love

A Time, A Season, And Always Love

Each Day I Awake

Beyond The Sunset

As A Flower Blooms – Hope Lives

Favor

Through and Beyond the Storm

Hope

In Due Season

Always With Hope

The Joy In The Morning

God’s Peace

May Each Day Lord I See You

As A Flower Blooms – Hope Lives

Morning

Sunrise

Avenues

New

Clouds For Today

As Tomorrow Comes

The Morning Sun

A New Day Begins

A Christmas Prayer

Morning

Beyond The Clouds

The Beauty Of Life

You

Direction

Letting Go

A New Day

New Life

Beyond The Clouds

Peace

So Beautiful The River Each Time It Flows

Time Heals, And So, Does Love

Always There

The Lord Watches Over Me

The Armor of God

A Daily Prayer Poem

May Peace Be With You

Home

Peace

Possibilities

Words of Encouragement

The Love Inside Of You

The Leap of Faith

Disappointments

Foundation

Obstacles

The Most Beautiful Gift

Winners

Possibilities

This Day Today

The Beauty Of You

I Have A Song In My Heart

I Wish To Live Life

Start Anew

I Cannot Stay Where I Am

His Amazing Love

Praising You

Thank You For This Day

Fulfillment

This Day Today

Closing Poem

My Inspiration

Dedication

I dedicate this book to my devoted and loving husband, John.

And to my son John, who is my joy, and my inspiration to write.

Your love and support