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    Looking for Hope
    Looking for Hope
    Looking for Hope
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    Looking for Hope

    By Larry Sells

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    Looking for Hope contains poetry about mental illness, nature, humor, and life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLarry Sells
    Release dateJun 24, 2022
    ISBN9798201717162
    Looking for Hope
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    Larry Sells

    Larry Sells lives in Decorah, IA where he writes his poetry and short stories. His short stories are filled with nightmares

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      Book preview

      Looking for Hope - Larry Sells

      Looking for Hope

      Larry Sells

      2022 © Sells Publications

      ISBN

      9798215632017

      No part of this publication maybe reproduced in any form, by Photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, which are now known, or to be invented, or incorporated into any information retrieval system electronic, or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner.

      Larry Sells

      Come out of the darkness

      And into the light

      Table of Content

      Contents 

      The Wind

      Our Love

      Listen to Them

      A Friend

      Search of the Meaning of Life

      Dark green

      Dark Waves

      Stagnate

      Happy New Year

      The Bottom

      Winter and Squirrels

      River of Life and Death

      What's Life

      The Bad Man

      My Time Changes

      Share

      Layers

      Little Square

      Media

      Mirror Image

      The Night

      Blue

      Recovery

      Am I crazy?

      A Magical Relationship

      My Inner Light

      My Mania

      Silent Old Man

      Java Johns

      Coffee

      Coffee, the Drink

      Hooterville

      Voices of the Mind

      Suffer in Silence

      Truth

      It’s Just Me

      Hope is found in my head,

      Puppies, Books and Nieces

      Life

      Winter Past and Present

      Not Me

      Only Heaven Knows

      Crows

      My Writing

      Life Clock

      Cheer

      The ForgottenWhite Sands of Iowa

      Dream Quest

      My Soul

      Merry Christmas Happy New Year

      Words are Free

      Art

      Stream

      Why

      Las Vegas

      Places

      Music

      It’s Time

      The Wind

      twists branches of trees and cast them aside. It howls like a giant pack of wolves. Small swimming pools and toys the wind picks up and carry away.  Small children seeking comfort form their mother waiting for the wind to pass. Rain mixed with wind slams into the wind with a loud bang.  Wind almost picks up a semi-truck, a car, and minivan as they drive down the street. Wind creates waves as water walks across the street. The wind ends like it begins. A rainbow forms.

      Larry Sells

      Our Love

      My loved ones are so far away, but my love brings them close to me.  I may be not able to physically touch them,

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