Started writing it two decades ago,158Please respect copyright.PENANA0t2nWudkbQ
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,158Please respect copyright.PENANAqwZOQJP744
To protect the guilty and innocent,158Please respect copyright.PENANA7aadngWo0T
In this autobiographical work.158Please respect copyright.PENANAbhZLE0spQM
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Life got in the way of reliving it,158Please respect copyright.PENANAMldgWSkVUz
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,158Please respect copyright.PENANASEYQVWFcRg
Back burners full of overflowing pots,158Please respect copyright.PENANAWNciv007G7
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.158Please respect copyright.PENANAy46ktWMGED
158Please respect copyright.PENANAl2j75MWTLM
Serious writing projects completed,158Please respect copyright.PENANAp93hWHab2J
A dozen plus books published,158Please respect copyright.PENANANbKMCkPNr7
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,158Please respect copyright.PENANAJvDElk26KC
New courses to develop and to teach.158Please respect copyright.PENANA2gW8fVb60L
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,158Please respect copyright.PENANAQxPoAffZhz
But not not written down to pass down my truth,158Please respect copyright.PENANAx9GIfUQDJM
About things I know much more than I'd like,158Please respect copyright.PENANAszxl7DAbmZ
And others should learn, in old age and youth.158Please respect copyright.PENANAkPWrzNFc2Y
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,158Please respect copyright.PENANAqy0a9UOjlY
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,158Please respect copyright.PENANAYykz2MeNnp
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,158Please respect copyright.PENANAMYUvGFUh8L
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.158Please respect copyright.PENANAWcqu6qXL7P
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,158Please respect copyright.PENANAOOTEtNljPq
In memory still green, though browning in parts,158Please respect copyright.PENANA7cXOBOvZd8
Taking poetic license where I must,158Please respect copyright.PENANASvSvWV2W48
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.158Please respect copyright.PENANAPB4r2X8CgM
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,158Please respect copyright.PENANAV2ihrf3jFZ
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,158Please respect copyright.PENANA6wv7A1MtJn
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,158Please respect copyright.PENANA6BfPpXxldy
By hungry vultures out of existence.158Please respect copyright.PENANA0mznjUuMTa
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Remembering a day in my career,158Please respect copyright.PENANA50ZwlUWLrh
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,158Please respect copyright.PENANAxLHRTZmsLS
And had not opened doors I could not close,158Please respect copyright.PENANAJydd5Ldhda
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.158Please respect copyright.PENANAKjCPXeJrHs
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,158Please respect copyright.PENANAiCYGuvQxBg
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,158Please respect copyright.PENANAO61SaInz4w
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,158Please respect copyright.PENANAGybnxm16iY
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.158Please respect copyright.PENANAnbSREe98ui
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The painful memories I now drown in,158Please respect copyright.PENANAM6bh1OOrU7
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,158Please respect copyright.PENANAj8Qzd1MGwg
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,158Please respect copyright.PENANAiY5EdlFI0Y
To protect myself and those I have loved.158Please respect copyright.PENANALTFU2P70Aq
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,158Please respect copyright.PENANAMjFeeMntaC
Describe what I've learned that others should know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAeh6WUkW57U
Weave the personal with transparent thread,158Please respect copyright.PENANACYuAEPrsGi
The professional with thickest red yarn.158Please respect copyright.PENANAeJuF8A9za8
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,158Please respect copyright.PENANAX1SLldFUZv
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,158Please respect copyright.PENANAkIFAfIaLtT
And I believe it will find a market,158Please respect copyright.PENANAUVjILkwD1x
For it will reveal some essential truths.158Please respect copyright.PENANAKf7DeKq2JF
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It will teach much more that all need to know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAr1JWUYHNk6
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,158Please respect copyright.PENANAzplUXdR7bB
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,158Please respect copyright.PENANAueHdH6WbNG
Hope I can write it before my life ends.158Please respect copyright.PENANAIQLJZbclrD
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,158Please respect copyright.PENANAff2fau2sXw
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.158Please respect copyright.PENANAFidhtxA3Al
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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