Started writing it two decades ago,158Please respect copyright.PENANAg0m8qx6oNO
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,158Please respect copyright.PENANAH8wHCLplKv
To protect the guilty and innocent,158Please respect copyright.PENANAriSvl2OxMN
In this autobiographical work.158Please respect copyright.PENANAU2IAM5RXL2
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Life got in the way of reliving it,158Please respect copyright.PENANApM1PRLeGBK
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,158Please respect copyright.PENANANEwT2dBLB3
Back burners full of overflowing pots,158Please respect copyright.PENANA364DATQjyd
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.158Please respect copyright.PENANAaZ7DLyK0gS
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Serious writing projects completed,158Please respect copyright.PENANAT5ahVYkly9
A dozen plus books published,158Please respect copyright.PENANAJoRt3dCV1f
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,158Please respect copyright.PENANAYiUonKs4lY
New courses to develop and to teach.158Please respect copyright.PENANAjZsc9SWGnG
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,158Please respect copyright.PENANAqkM6OEx9QE
But not not written down to pass down my truth,158Please respect copyright.PENANAuC4xe56BK8
About things I know much more than I'd like,158Please respect copyright.PENANAtBZLOzZIlQ
And others should learn, in old age and youth.158Please respect copyright.PENANA17v6xvd13q
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,158Please respect copyright.PENANAB1pC0Nhjed
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,158Please respect copyright.PENANAwRKnjzvwQo
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,158Please respect copyright.PENANANKcUS31rl8
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.158Please respect copyright.PENANAODJAlbNVZS
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,158Please respect copyright.PENANAfiBX5AwaTG
In memory still green, though browning in parts,158Please respect copyright.PENANANgXLVVG3Bp
Taking poetic license where I must,158Please respect copyright.PENANAAahyTrjtWr
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.158Please respect copyright.PENANALxAGJsBI0B
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,158Please respect copyright.PENANAHgP5g4eT9K
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,158Please respect copyright.PENANAztfGHGse3z
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,158Please respect copyright.PENANA6eKowQetOF
By hungry vultures out of existence.158Please respect copyright.PENANAr85FkHzM1r
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Remembering a day in my career,158Please respect copyright.PENANAVO2I2LI6Ys
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,158Please respect copyright.PENANAu4rMZsUDfU
And had not opened doors I could not close,158Please respect copyright.PENANAltzRvS8ETK
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.158Please respect copyright.PENANAmE4myuBRgL
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,158Please respect copyright.PENANArDOMlcaWOv
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,158Please respect copyright.PENANALsC7mc1QY5
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,158Please respect copyright.PENANAhfyqXgCR8q
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.158Please respect copyright.PENANATv9la3J03q
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The painful memories I now drown in,158Please respect copyright.PENANA5ft14Hmdk3
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,158Please respect copyright.PENANAuVDjRdzuHF
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,158Please respect copyright.PENANAVscvHOllqi
To protect myself and those I have loved.158Please respect copyright.PENANAexH1Dek4Jt
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,158Please respect copyright.PENANAUVysmNEacg
Describe what I've learned that others should know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAVjEOV1oBt6
Weave the personal with transparent thread,158Please respect copyright.PENANAL0tXNlf08R
The professional with thickest red yarn.158Please respect copyright.PENANANevOssldWV
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,158Please respect copyright.PENANAV03kZAwMJM
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,158Please respect copyright.PENANAys7UXEiBos
And I believe it will find a market,158Please respect copyright.PENANAaw6g4h4Af4
For it will reveal some essential truths.158Please respect copyright.PENANA7ldCctwLxt
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It will teach much more that all need to know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAKEAEPeqnMn
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,158Please respect copyright.PENANA1eSmTi6COk
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,158Please respect copyright.PENANADI66TYtNYp
Hope I can write it before my life ends.158Please respect copyright.PENANA5VJZBXBo1t
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,158Please respect copyright.PENANAOHaJZ54SsM
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.158Please respect copyright.PENANAYh1IVA70q7
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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