Walking In Graveyards

By Frankie Jenn

A book of poetry. This poetry is a chronicle of the various periods of the author's life, and the author's response to events taking place within those periods.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Frankie Jenn
• Release date: Jun 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463781470

Frankie Jenn

Frankie Jenn was born in Philadelphia, PA. She graduated high school from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, before attending the University Of Michigan. After one year, she left and joined the Air Force, where she studied engineering technology. She currently resides in Philadelphia. She had 4 children and 5 cats.

Book preview

I wrote my very first poem when I was nine. I was sitting in back of Miss Holiday’s class when suddenly I had the overwhelming urge to write; I don’t recall what inspired that urge. It might have been something said or something I saw out of the window. However, I began writing feverously, and in minutes I had composed a poem that I was so proud of, that at the end of the class I ran up to the teacher to show her. Now maybe she was just trying to encourage a student she liked, but she raved over the poem, and in that moment a poet was born. I have been writing ever since.

Now many years have gone by. (More years than I would like to think about or discuss), and in those years, I have never until now actually published any of the gazillion poems I have written detailing the people, places or events of my life. And even though it was my mother who first suggested that I publish my poetry, she, as well as I had no inkling of how to accomplish that. Years passed, and I left home, went to college, entered the military, got married, had children. I continued writing howbeit sporadically, but the thought of publishing never again came to the forefront of my mind.

Fast forward several years. My children are grown, and I have come back full circle to that thing I always loved to do: write. But it wasn’t until my daughter approached me with the idea for a book she wanted to write that I considered publishing my own jottings. I encouraged her and pushed her to not only finish her story, but to publish it as well. I used my own history as a cautionary tale of waiting to act. She finished her novel, and I began helping her to try and publish. Unfortunately, there were no takers for her novel. It was then that I remembered that one of the novels we loved that was popular had been self-published. I look into getting her book self-published, and voila! Enter Smashwords to the rescue.

That then left me with my own work to consider. And here