Started writing it two decades ago,94Please respect copyright.PENANAZjIs0X0P8I
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,94Please respect copyright.PENANA3zUcWegITK
To protect the guilty and innocent,94Please respect copyright.PENANAecajKDHDgb
In this autobiographical work.94Please respect copyright.PENANAX8rOQUfoPC
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Life got in the way of reliving it,94Please respect copyright.PENANASlKEcGB9vJ
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,94Please respect copyright.PENANAx1HynhSitA
Back burners full of overflowing pots,94Please respect copyright.PENANAO4KogTHWu9
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.94Please respect copyright.PENANAFoFFpZM6Ub
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Serious writing projects completed,94Please respect copyright.PENANA5O7pR1o4O0
A dozen plus books published,94Please respect copyright.PENANALohsJn3x5Q
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,94Please respect copyright.PENANACJqaQTp4o7
New courses to develop and to teach.94Please respect copyright.PENANAbMEDbULFN3
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,94Please respect copyright.PENANA6W1tyOFcoP
But not not written down to pass down my truth,94Please respect copyright.PENANAXA5ouRO39v
About things I know much more than I'd like,94Please respect copyright.PENANA17pTYD5fwv
And others should learn, in old age and youth.94Please respect copyright.PENANApVjctaGuDj
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,94Please respect copyright.PENANAmX4vTWqvL9
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,94Please respect copyright.PENANA7JYPef30dd
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,94Please respect copyright.PENANAIkcel3Qh64
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.94Please respect copyright.PENANATNUguEbs3y
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,94Please respect copyright.PENANAIDzKLHi0dA
In memory still green, though browning in parts,94Please respect copyright.PENANAr3us4Vha2J
Taking poetic license where I must,94Please respect copyright.PENANAFhDtJVDJt7
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.94Please respect copyright.PENANAsntnDh3rVJ
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,94Please respect copyright.PENANAJv5rd34V1T
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,94Please respect copyright.PENANAXpzkg8NUjR
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,94Please respect copyright.PENANAvfjqnN8HAE
By hungry vultures out of existence.94Please respect copyright.PENANAkS72V5wFtF
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Remembering a day in my career,94Please respect copyright.PENANAoPaE8OC1w4
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,94Please respect copyright.PENANAkbpfH0zHyv
And had not opened doors I could not close,94Please respect copyright.PENANARYy1wx7fHI
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.94Please respect copyright.PENANAHsZCkHuq0J
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,94Please respect copyright.PENANAS87LZfSa1p
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,94Please respect copyright.PENANAnXBPtyWlZK
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,94Please respect copyright.PENANA4V9H7TAKqt
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.94Please respect copyright.PENANAAA6hS9VDWT
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The painful memories I now drown in,94Please respect copyright.PENANAKbEKMQuy9T
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,94Please respect copyright.PENANAs8HMJcwH9G
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,94Please respect copyright.PENANAtLNdEhoROV
To protect myself and those I have loved.94Please respect copyright.PENANA4vK1MkTNIE
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,94Please respect copyright.PENANAYPekVXdVwf
Describe what I've learned that others should know,94Please respect copyright.PENANAzy3au9Tusg
Weave the personal with transparent thread,94Please respect copyright.PENANAWmSspZa3pI
The professional with thickest red yarn.94Please respect copyright.PENANA07faRnZTEt
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,94Please respect copyright.PENANAhy9H7SMSyh
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,94Please respect copyright.PENANAsjdk4OrZ3k
And I believe it will find a market,94Please respect copyright.PENANAqAEuwnGQYA
For it will reveal some essential truths.94Please respect copyright.PENANA4smx0KhlMI
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It will teach much more that all need to know,94Please respect copyright.PENANA2Tpj6tQfb9
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,94Please respect copyright.PENANAbLV1Ptvf34
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,94Please respect copyright.PENANAjyv9NC7wLL
Hope I can write it before my life ends.94Please respect copyright.PENANABzuvNcglml
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,94Please respect copyright.PENANAaBXzI1nyOV
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.94Please respect copyright.PENANAgHHPGKgJb7
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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