About the Author

JERRY D. JACKSON was brought into this world in the small country town of Elizabethtown, NC, on 16 August 1946. He graduated from high school in June of 1965, got married, fathered a child, went on active military duty, completed two specialized schools, and served a year in Vietnam, all before his twenty-first birthday. Later, he completed a two-year class through George Washington University, finishing second in his class, and in 1976, he graduated from the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School located in historic Yorktown, Virginia, and went on to complete over twenty-three years of service defending his country with pride. Jerry and his late wife started a furniture business in Mt. Juliet, TN., in 1986. This decorated veteran of the United States Coast Guard retired from active military service with the rank of Lieutenant (03), and retired in September of 1986. All of his childhood experiences, growing up in the country, and his many experiences during and after his military service contributed greatly to the poems found in this book. Mr. Jackson continues to write and is a Deacon at a church he attends every Sunday..

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Poetic Justice

Poetic Justice is a superb collection of poems and songs that will explore your emotions, instill pride, inform readers, and ultimately foster in you, a wonderful sense of hope and clarity. This unique approach, which includes the inspiration for each piece, is unprecedented and has, to my knowledge, never been used before, and it will give the reader insight into each work’s origin.

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Destination Eternity

Contained in the following pages is an interpretation of the Bible that may surprise you; it may even cause you to read and understand the Bible in an entirely different way. While a few of our readers will agree with only a small portion of this material, many will agree with most of what we have presented. Those who agree with our interpretations are encouraged to tell friends about our book so they, too, will have a better understanding of God’s word. Our purpose for writing Destination Eternity was to take you on a journey through life, starting with creation and ending with eternity. Eternity with God and Jesus should be everyone’s destination, and we should live each day with that in mind.

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An American Vendetta

Recently, I had one of my songs produced and recorded by an up-and-coming singer from the Nashville, Tennessee area. The song is titled “An Angry Young Man.” When it was submitted for a professional critique, I was surprised to see it described as a “dark,” song. Later, I discussed the track with my producer, who suggested that the story behind it would make a great “made-for-TV” movie. “In my dreams,” I thought, but the idea stuck with me. I realized I needed to tell the story behind the song, and a book would allow me to share the full narrative. Inspired by those two comments, I sat down to write, and over time, the book ‘An American Vendetta’ was the result. I love it, and I am certain that once you start reading, you’ll feel compelled to finish it in one sitting.

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Hodgepodge

Hodgepodge: A Random Collection of Poems and Songs Like Nothin’ You’ve Ever Read isn’t built like a tidy poetry anthology; it feels more like opening a well-worn notebook found on a kitchen table, its pages filled over the years of living. The world inside is stitched together from memory, humor, heartbreak, faith, satire, and sudden bursts of song. One page leans into playful rhythm and country wit; the next pivots toward raw reflection or spiritual reckoning. There’s no single road here-only a series of side paths, each carrying its own mood.

The atmosphere shifts constantly, and that’s the point. Some pieces carry the cadence of front-porch storytelling, where laughter drifts as easily as summer air. Others move inward, grappling with mortality, regret, grace, or the quiet persistence of belief. The tension isn’t plot-driven-it’s emotional. What happens when a mind refuses to filter itself? When sentimentality and sarcasm share the same page? When a song lyric becomes a confession?

There’s a distinctly Americana pulse running through the collection-echoes of old hymnals, country ballads, and small-town conversations, yet it also carries the unpredictability of the spoken word. The poems don’t posture. They meander, they jab, they wink. At times, they feel like campfire tunes; at others, like late-night thoughts scribbled in the margins of memory.

What makes this collection stand out is its embrace of imperfection. The title signals it plainly: this is a hodgepodge. But beneath the randomness lies a quiet question: Can a life ever be summarized in one tone, one genre, one voice? The book suggests otherwise. It honors the messiness of being human: contradictory, nostalgic, faithful, funny, wounded, hopeful.

In a literary landscape that often demands cohesion and branding, this collection leans into variety as its truth. It doesn’t ask to be categorized; it asks to be experienced piece by piece, mood by mood

Sometimes the most honest portrait of a life isn’t a straight line, but a scatter of songs that somehow still belong together.

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Poems For You

During the process of living my life, there came a day when I picked up a pencil and started putting my thoughts to paper. Early in my Coast Guard career, I was allowed to start a small one page newspaper that was well received and lasted until I was transferred to my next duty station. Throughout my time in the Coast Guard, I had more opportunities to write and submit several articles for various military publications. More recently, like some concerned citizens do, I submitted articles to our local paper with one appearing on the front page during Black History Month. My first attempt at writing poetry was a poem titled If Only, and is the first poem in my book, Poetic Justice. That one poem was the first of hundreds that I’ve created and have been included in my two books of poetry, Poetic Justice, and my latest attempt and newest book titled, Hodgepodge.

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A brief introduction about my songs

As I’m toying around with the make-up of a certain poem, something inside would lead me to write it as a song instead of a poem. A melody would come to me, I would start making humming sounds and the wording changed accordingly. When you really think about it, a poem is a song and a song can be considered a poem. The difference to me is the way it’s presented to the audience and the music that accompanies it. My first song came from a poem appearing in my book, Poetic Justice, titled: An American Dream. I took that poem, re-worked it, changed the name to; Let Freedom Ring, and had it produced and put to music by Mr. Gary Earl of Nashville, TN. Gary did a great job on that song so I went to him to produce all my songs. In addition to his talents, he has access to the best musicians and back-up singers that Nashville has to offer. And that’s what you get if you decide to purchase one or more of my songs.

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Ms. Sherry Britt

American Vendetta was one of the most captivating, thought provoking books I’ve ever read. I didn’t want to put it down!

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Christopher Hernandez

Written from the author’s own memories, life experiences, and travels, Hodgepodge feels deeply personal yet universally relatable. Mr. Jackson’s poetry resonates with the kind of authenticity that comes only from a life well-lived and well-loved. Whether it’s a fleeting encounter with a wise Navajo elder or the simple image of a tumbleweed crossing one’s path, every verse evokes vivid imagery and emotion.

This collection will make readers laugh, smile, and perhaps even shed a tear — but more importantly, it will stir up their own memories of days gone by. True to its title, Hodgepodge is a rich mix of emotions, stories, and reflections that come together to form a beautiful tapestry of life. It’s a poetic road trip you’ll want to take again and again.

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Christopher Hernandez

Jerry D. Jackson’s Hodgepodge is a heartfelt and nostalgic collection of 108 poems that captures the beauty of life’s journey,its laughter, its tears, and the countless moments in between. Like a long, winding road through Monument Valley, each poem invites readers to pause, reflect, and discover something new and adventurous along the way.

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