Where There's Hope- There's Love: Poems of Hope & Love for Today & Tomorrow

By Doris Washington

Where Theres Hope - Theres Love is a collection of poems that inspire with hope for today and tomorrow. The author shares poems of hope for brighter tomorrows. In the poems A Rainbow of Hope and Over the Horizon, the author expresses that even through the most challenging of times in ones life, tomorrow will be brighter. In the poem Gathering Stones, the author shares that there comes a period in our lives when we experience disappointments and we gather stones, in search for inner peace through healing and forgiveness. Also, in this collection, the author, who is a mother of an adult son with autism, shares three poems about autism to help bring a better awareness and understanding about autism, which is so expressed in her poems Do You See Him? Do You Hear Him? Do You Know Him? Tears, and John. And in the closing poem, Beyond the Sunset, the author shares that we can come to know love.

Where Theres Hope - Theres Love inspires us to believe that on any given day, we always have hope to hold on to and our faith to keep us going, and above all, as we come to know love, we will live our best selves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 30, 2018
• ISBN: 9781984534101

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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Where There’s Hope - There’s Love

POEMS OF HOPE & LOVE FOR TODAY & TOMORROW

by

Doris Washington

Book Cover & Interior Photographs by Joni Meyers

Author Photograph is supplied by the Author

Copyright © 2018 by Doris Washington.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2018906872

ISBN:      Hardcover        978-1-9845-3408-8

                Softcover          978-1-9845-3409-5

                eBook               978-1-9845-3410-1

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Book Cover & Interior Photographs by Joni Meyers

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Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Poems About Autism

Do You See Him? Do You Hear Him? Do You Know Him?

Tears

John

SUNRISE

As The Morning Comes

Each Day I Awake

A New Day

The Morning Sun

A New Day Begins

As Tomorrow Comes

Through And Beyond The Storm

Morning

The Joy In The Morning

Avenues

Sunrise

GOD’S ENDURING LOVE

Today May Not Be Your Tomorrow

A Time, A Season, And Always Love

God’s Promise

May Peace Be With You

Jesus My Friend Forever More

The Most Beautiful Gift

Only Love

His Amazing Love

Thank You For This Day

God’s Enduring Love

GATHERING STONES

Let Love Take You

I Do Not Want To Hurt Anymore

Start Anew

Forgive

I Can Always Begin Again

Whirlwind

Direction

Beyond The Clouds

Letting Go

The Beauty Of Love

Peace

The Beauty Of Life

Gathering Stones

HIS EVERLASTING LOVE

A White Rose Of Hope

Each Day I Go Forward

Always There

As A Flower Blooms – Hope Lives

I Abide In You

In Due Season

The Lord Watches Over Me

God Answers Prayers

Blessings

His Everlasting Love

AS I PLANT THE SEEDS OF MY GARDEN

The Love Inside Of You

A Journey Of A Thousand Steps

The Beauty Of You

I Cannot Stay Where I Am

Inspiration

The Leap Of Faith

To Fly Like An Eagle

Words Of Encouragement

True Beauty

There’s A Beautiful Voice Inside Of Me

A RAINBOW OF HOPE

Where’s There’s Hope-There’s Love

There’s Always A Season

The Storms

Hold On To The Sunshine After The Rain

God’s Peace

Hope

So Beautiful The River Each Time It Flows

I Wish To Live Life

A Rainbow Of Hope

OVER THE HORIZON

Each Day I Hope – I Pray!

For Every Moment Of Each Day –