Started writing it two decades ago,96Please respect copyright.PENANAe2wx9ZD1Qj
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,96Please respect copyright.PENANA8IBOvsbXgY
To protect the guilty and innocent,96Please respect copyright.PENANATeYb0Gu6x3
In this autobiographical work.96Please respect copyright.PENANA2rQS0ihhJz
96Please respect copyright.PENANAI4XVzeJ5sW
Life got in the way of reliving it,96Please respect copyright.PENANATtfxoWIPyy
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,96Please respect copyright.PENANA8mxk7YD87W
Back burners full of overflowing pots,96Please respect copyright.PENANASGy6dhIaVY
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.96Please respect copyright.PENANAUgNUQbER1Q
96Please respect copyright.PENANAXEfm0nBFx5
Serious writing projects completed,96Please respect copyright.PENANA1Xrw7WYs9K
A dozen plus books published,96Please respect copyright.PENANAz8hew8j3wp
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,96Please respect copyright.PENANArKu5DNjGQS
New courses to develop and to teach.96Please respect copyright.PENANAcsjXW5LfBk
96Please respect copyright.PENANA3i0vldCiou
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,96Please respect copyright.PENANAhBjoK4LT3I
But not not written down to pass down my truth,96Please respect copyright.PENANAw8tyR6zZo3
About things I know much more than I'd like,96Please respect copyright.PENANAKPavzkq6aM
And others should learn, in old age and youth.96Please respect copyright.PENANA0XBrzoHWUe
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,96Please respect copyright.PENANA7aHnjqpngk
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,96Please respect copyright.PENANAKbTg02Cyhg
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,96Please respect copyright.PENANAkk4vuUC7RI
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.96Please respect copyright.PENANAWwaGdOelMc
96Please respect copyright.PENANAa9V94U1vGx
So I'm back again, reliving the past,96Please respect copyright.PENANAoZtECHOTri
In memory still green, though browning in parts,96Please respect copyright.PENANAhqWB1gmJj0
Taking poetic license where I must,96Please respect copyright.PENANAfbxgOrVjnS
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.96Please respect copyright.PENANAksKm2Cq91V
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,96Please respect copyright.PENANAw7GgdcfKho
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,96Please respect copyright.PENANA01pjDsYjUh
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,96Please respect copyright.PENANAcEXzESIQ9J
By hungry vultures out of existence.96Please respect copyright.PENANAg1dxWziDVj
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Remembering a day in my career,96Please respect copyright.PENANA40YevcAG5r
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,96Please respect copyright.PENANAJxghiaPpVF
And had not opened doors I could not close,96Please respect copyright.PENANAai2BCUMAoS
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.96Please respect copyright.PENANAsxsfcZ0nxu
96Please respect copyright.PENANAzhYVaNIcpB
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,96Please respect copyright.PENANAJ4k4dlRcAP
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,96Please respect copyright.PENANAtS8rmNACnw
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,96Please respect copyright.PENANAmUE5y4NGAu
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.96Please respect copyright.PENANAOppjPAHFcW
96Please respect copyright.PENANAicFtf7CwZx
The painful memories I now drown in,96Please respect copyright.PENANAL84JKvULjk
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,96Please respect copyright.PENANAfhVmbvcpwX
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,96Please respect copyright.PENANAjGvmGNQIDv
To protect myself and those I have loved.96Please respect copyright.PENANAHiXLHhL82Y
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,96Please respect copyright.PENANAF2eo0F5eOR
Describe what I've learned that others should know,96Please respect copyright.PENANADQ4QVR3QqP
Weave the personal with transparent thread,96Please respect copyright.PENANABEcBoC1nYJ
The professional with thickest red yarn.96Please respect copyright.PENANAGoyLJefRm6
96Please respect copyright.PENANAmAHcTdsIW2
I'll search for an agent when it is done,96Please respect copyright.PENANAdYX622LFbe
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,96Please respect copyright.PENANAnH5WrHnYK5
And I believe it will find a market,96Please respect copyright.PENANAUCsyFiv9KR
For it will reveal some essential truths.96Please respect copyright.PENANA2tWVpf8kgw
96Please respect copyright.PENANAlNaZJS6vf1
It will teach much more that all need to know,96Please respect copyright.PENANAk7F44cvkPo
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,96Please respect copyright.PENANAJSBbqksKK0
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,96Please respect copyright.PENANAIddbT9etfg
Hope I can write it before my life ends.96Please respect copyright.PENANAKKP9TI7plI
96Please respect copyright.PENANAz4xdhnvJ2b
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,96Please respect copyright.PENANAaw3KAuqyXa
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.96Please respect copyright.PENANAxLpzYM2W3O
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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