Started writing it two decades ago,156Please respect copyright.PENANAbbrzCsZsWn
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,156Please respect copyright.PENANAwluUW2D838
To protect the guilty and innocent,156Please respect copyright.PENANA36dZgfsMkl
In this autobiographical work.156Please respect copyright.PENANABcnl4AJmii
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Life got in the way of reliving it,156Please respect copyright.PENANAA99UAFPUMz
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,156Please respect copyright.PENANAI1aoeTzilR
Back burners full of overflowing pots,156Please respect copyright.PENANA1JIDUHx60t
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.156Please respect copyright.PENANA4aOxltc2T9
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Serious writing projects completed,156Please respect copyright.PENANAQIYxoB3OPM
A dozen plus books published,156Please respect copyright.PENANA0vKddap31h
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,156Please respect copyright.PENANA2uMTkzaeBT
New courses to develop and to teach.156Please respect copyright.PENANAgz4jgIrzB2
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,156Please respect copyright.PENANAYg9lqSkw7S
But not not written down to pass down my truth,156Please respect copyright.PENANAS7H1EEUpgN
About things I know much more than I'd like,156Please respect copyright.PENANAxEccH09taS
And others should learn, in old age and youth.156Please respect copyright.PENANAKXYWOv4Noa
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,156Please respect copyright.PENANAEzJvUuWaKx
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,156Please respect copyright.PENANAiVFjtoH20X
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,156Please respect copyright.PENANAdbXFzhmwlV
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.156Please respect copyright.PENANAreNVnYFG7a
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,156Please respect copyright.PENANAyzJr3aQ7WK
In memory still green, though browning in parts,156Please respect copyright.PENANAIYXsdZjvKw
Taking poetic license where I must,156Please respect copyright.PENANADL60PFkkoF
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.156Please respect copyright.PENANAP8MTZakk6N
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,156Please respect copyright.PENANAXRAVbHbT9K
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,156Please respect copyright.PENANAV0tcUqoVyC
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,156Please respect copyright.PENANATjUOGOotnF
By hungry vultures out of existence.156Please respect copyright.PENANARIL3XFu5RZ
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Remembering a day in my career,156Please respect copyright.PENANAR0HDFPHG0H
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,156Please respect copyright.PENANABwpz7lf0pY
And had not opened doors I could not close,156Please respect copyright.PENANADGkJ0sHpqC
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.156Please respect copyright.PENANAeIVAP2PR2e
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,156Please respect copyright.PENANAXaEYS7luLS
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,156Please respect copyright.PENANAbwnQjrLTVY
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,156Please respect copyright.PENANA2deqryYbKB
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.156Please respect copyright.PENANACce8KbX935
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The painful memories I now drown in,156Please respect copyright.PENANAcxSlA3Vdqy
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,156Please respect copyright.PENANAfvWhOGxYT1
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,156Please respect copyright.PENANAMIxsLAEXE5
To protect myself and those I have loved.156Please respect copyright.PENANAjQffeAwr5Y
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,156Please respect copyright.PENANAotxlIOpniW
Describe what I've learned that others should know,156Please respect copyright.PENANAfp2PrGtray
Weave the personal with transparent thread,156Please respect copyright.PENANA3GlrVVDUrz
The professional with thickest red yarn.156Please respect copyright.PENANA5emnNOc2Np
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,156Please respect copyright.PENANAkQsQCKQZ3L
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,156Please respect copyright.PENANAk32JVgAMzU
And I believe it will find a market,156Please respect copyright.PENANAj5NzXDpcbe
For it will reveal some essential truths.156Please respect copyright.PENANAtF5gQF60V8
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It will teach much more that all need to know,156Please respect copyright.PENANAXqAIldaXND
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,156Please respect copyright.PENANAi88WfcUjft
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,156Please respect copyright.PENANAcdmzv6Bg6q
Hope I can write it before my life ends.156Please respect copyright.PENANAXJMc32PEof
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,156Please respect copyright.PENANA6Ys02nkusF
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.156Please respect copyright.PENANAX5N8GccLKb
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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