franny47's Profile

Join Date:

8/20/2009

Pen Name: franny47

• Location: New York
• Name: Frances Anna Ayers
• Preferred language: English
• School: Fordham University Graduate School Of Social Service,Mercy College
• About me:

  I am a published poet.For years,I worked as a Social Worker with abused and neglected children and their families.I started writing in my forties after the suicide of my brother,Patrick.I write about;loss,love,acceptance and inspiration.I am hoping to have my poems published in an anthology.I have submitted some of my work to various literary magazines,but so far I haven't had any success.I would like to meet other people who started writing later in life.
                                    When I am not writing,I enjoy going to bookstores,taking long walks,and going to the movies.I am easygoing and love the simple things in life.Friends say I am funny(sometimes),bright,creative,stubborn,and loyal.
  
  Favorite Quotes
  
  Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?-John Keats
  
  Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good. -Dylan Thomas
  
  "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
  
  The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast .-William Wordworth

• My claim to fame: I was one of 8 finalists in a poetry contest on facebook.My poetry is all over the internet.I published an e-book of my poems on bookrix.com,entitled;"Moving On From Mourning.Thus far,It has received 13 stars.My poem,"Color Of The Earth",was a finalist in an online international poetry contest.