Started writing it two decades ago,158Please respect copyright.PENANAYb7f2Izi4i
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,158Please respect copyright.PENANAa6zaxMm3oU
To protect the guilty and innocent,158Please respect copyright.PENANAFxYEilyzzQ
In this autobiographical work.158Please respect copyright.PENANA6KGPHsYqRX
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Life got in the way of reliving it,158Please respect copyright.PENANAULCiNZr4PA
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,158Please respect copyright.PENANA8FFATBsNJM
Back burners full of overflowing pots,158Please respect copyright.PENANAoDu7GEZjCC
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.158Please respect copyright.PENANADfeML35fvg
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Serious writing projects completed,158Please respect copyright.PENANAoBsxKX1hTs
A dozen plus books published,158Please respect copyright.PENANArOoawVXHqH
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,158Please respect copyright.PENANAnlqnIWVJTe
New courses to develop and to teach.158Please respect copyright.PENANAJRJqM5fwVE
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,158Please respect copyright.PENANA8l8453gCxR
But not not written down to pass down my truth,158Please respect copyright.PENANAZkE9xVjIxf
About things I know much more than I'd like,158Please respect copyright.PENANAYU7KzJlJeJ
And others should learn, in old age and youth.158Please respect copyright.PENANAbWQl0BMTd5
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,158Please respect copyright.PENANARRZlsU7exF
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,158Please respect copyright.PENANAmsEERLe6PK
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,158Please respect copyright.PENANAbq8RYXSPdy
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.158Please respect copyright.PENANAQJtUbWj0cE
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,158Please respect copyright.PENANAZqZtpIBpaX
In memory still green, though browning in parts,158Please respect copyright.PENANAcXc1T9YrVl
Taking poetic license where I must,158Please respect copyright.PENANAaY8lT9fnJ9
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.158Please respect copyright.PENANA5cFO9jRWcg
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,158Please respect copyright.PENANA2QO8EjS4vk
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,158Please respect copyright.PENANAa01vSzDIka
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,158Please respect copyright.PENANA1hxFaVoMLp
By hungry vultures out of existence.158Please respect copyright.PENANA3w3qRXssRN
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Remembering a day in my career,158Please respect copyright.PENANA1q0vzxnQcw
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,158Please respect copyright.PENANAwAWpRrlq6z
And had not opened doors I could not close,158Please respect copyright.PENANAroThzvQBzs
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.158Please respect copyright.PENANAnrN4d3FSeC
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,158Please respect copyright.PENANA3wB57ua61n
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,158Please respect copyright.PENANApzcmz5xgZK
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,158Please respect copyright.PENANANKYhvcX12P
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.158Please respect copyright.PENANADHcixTHb5x
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The painful memories I now drown in,158Please respect copyright.PENANAhi8Uei1IqZ
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,158Please respect copyright.PENANArzhdeTFv9I
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,158Please respect copyright.PENANALZRO3Zaycv
To protect myself and those I have loved.158Please respect copyright.PENANAP7sNrMLyAa
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,158Please respect copyright.PENANAHsogYKzEBw
Describe what I've learned that others should know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAGowxJakqpr
Weave the personal with transparent thread,158Please respect copyright.PENANAvOuSxq1O1L
The professional with thickest red yarn.158Please respect copyright.PENANA6FPURpbrm8
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,158Please respect copyright.PENANAHfojabfG5A
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,158Please respect copyright.PENANAzN17lBpEE4
And I believe it will find a market,158Please respect copyright.PENANAGTZc2wfthD
For it will reveal some essential truths.158Please respect copyright.PENANAgOIlsmgRPS
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It will teach much more that all need to know,158Please respect copyright.PENANAoBjfLPv0W8
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,158Please respect copyright.PENANAdLrcIPWTaC
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,158Please respect copyright.PENANAJCaQUhKYSk
Hope I can write it before my life ends.158Please respect copyright.PENANAgzvloLkE72
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,158Please respect copyright.PENANApnr8N2Ipi5
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.158Please respect copyright.PENANACWANdnttTO
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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