Started writing it two decades ago,98Please respect copyright.PENANABTZx0OfFGr
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,98Please respect copyright.PENANAEFjwaaGnil
To protect the guilty and innocent,98Please respect copyright.PENANAdTcR8NJ3ET
In this autobiographical work.98Please respect copyright.PENANAxW94p5Kwdd
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Life got in the way of reliving it,98Please respect copyright.PENANABPVOJomGvt
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,98Please respect copyright.PENANALowHE6MC1S
Back burners full of overflowing pots,98Please respect copyright.PENANA19xF92Z3fD
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.98Please respect copyright.PENANAYzvvEhH3S8
98Please respect copyright.PENANAB2NdUEa0q4
Serious writing projects completed,98Please respect copyright.PENANA6mvJJ5FU1U
A dozen plus books published,98Please respect copyright.PENANAnWtuOGzG9q
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,98Please respect copyright.PENANAv1lSRXnYOH
New courses to develop and to teach.98Please respect copyright.PENANA1KV6iqgJGJ
98Please respect copyright.PENANA1cV731zpOU
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,98Please respect copyright.PENANA9ssrki2Hvq
But not not written down to pass down my truth,98Please respect copyright.PENANACacnNDBt5B
About things I know much more than I'd like,98Please respect copyright.PENANAIspQuB0g0E
And others should learn, in old age and youth.98Please respect copyright.PENANAukfw4mklgU
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,98Please respect copyright.PENANAQ1CiWvUEKn
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,98Please respect copyright.PENANApnEZLBu9cQ
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,98Please respect copyright.PENANAru0pkIQqNt
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.98Please respect copyright.PENANALo798dDotc
98Please respect copyright.PENANA5OysN8x6lf
So I'm back again, reliving the past,98Please respect copyright.PENANAACQtgIEyd3
In memory still green, though browning in parts,98Please respect copyright.PENANAnTzQ8oPQH3
Taking poetic license where I must,98Please respect copyright.PENANAZFX2Ams6uW
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.98Please respect copyright.PENANAqvKnkqUEWs
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,98Please respect copyright.PENANADC9uq49maI
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,98Please respect copyright.PENANA7if8PuPzib
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,98Please respect copyright.PENANADvECJtICqP
By hungry vultures out of existence.98Please respect copyright.PENANAzEMGgeKEVk
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Remembering a day in my career,98Please respect copyright.PENANAFQVqMV48jd
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,98Please respect copyright.PENANA6xuKrdfZ4c
And had not opened doors I could not close,98Please respect copyright.PENANAsxVqOkEbZ0
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.98Please respect copyright.PENANA0Sh7UnKsz8
98Please respect copyright.PENANA0EyKRCeZfz
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,98Please respect copyright.PENANAMp13KQP7RU
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,98Please respect copyright.PENANA3XTif36yPS
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,98Please respect copyright.PENANAoRSZkn5Qao
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.98Please respect copyright.PENANAb51Rlx2nIs
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The painful memories I now drown in,98Please respect copyright.PENANA8iogUuPiGy
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,98Please respect copyright.PENANAooZZmQUWi4
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,98Please respect copyright.PENANAi8GR3RHZPn
To protect myself and those I have loved.98Please respect copyright.PENANAuKcHqaynZz
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,98Please respect copyright.PENANAexTJZuhBzP
Describe what I've learned that others should know,98Please respect copyright.PENANAg1TfL1kWJY
Weave the personal with transparent thread,98Please respect copyright.PENANAP58mc8rRfD
The professional with thickest red yarn.98Please respect copyright.PENANAZuRvdjRN2Q
98Please respect copyright.PENANAsqhvLFlnh5
I'll search for an agent when it is done,98Please respect copyright.PENANArZl21641MW
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,98Please respect copyright.PENANAumznWNv1NP
And I believe it will find a market,98Please respect copyright.PENANADe8OD2EMHF
For it will reveal some essential truths.98Please respect copyright.PENANAU3cLsKBJro
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It will teach much more that all need to know,98Please respect copyright.PENANATDiUfEWMBw
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,98Please respect copyright.PENANATevfTwycwd
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,98Please respect copyright.PENANAMv5lYzkGAY
Hope I can write it before my life ends.98Please respect copyright.PENANAzj74eM3fJB
98Please respect copyright.PENANA5EdYAxfpYV
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,98Please respect copyright.PENANAt6dL3Z1Icb
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.98Please respect copyright.PENANAsFmfMdGAKk
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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