Started writing it two decades ago,131Please respect copyright.PENANATh6751ZekS
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,131Please respect copyright.PENANAMK0p2ofrFx
To protect the guilty and innocent,131Please respect copyright.PENANAI1l3wZL0H8
In this autobiographical work.131Please respect copyright.PENANAYpoyKtQIc6
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Life got in the way of reliving it,131Please respect copyright.PENANASkVB8K6eVE
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,131Please respect copyright.PENANAIoS8jZVFS3
Back burners full of overflowing pots,131Please respect copyright.PENANACX5zNhtOM9
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.131Please respect copyright.PENANAUOzQbUanqa
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Serious writing projects completed,131Please respect copyright.PENANAa1y5EMqp00
A dozen plus books published,131Please respect copyright.PENANA9PAaz9skUg
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,131Please respect copyright.PENANAJFE21EdzVm
New courses to develop and to teach.131Please respect copyright.PENANAhLE0ndrb17
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,131Please respect copyright.PENANANjJvtP7TWu
But not not written down to pass down my truth,131Please respect copyright.PENANA8LIUMMEPzp
About things I know much more than I'd like,131Please respect copyright.PENANAZp6ZxA4e0D
And others should learn, in old age and youth.131Please respect copyright.PENANA8SdTcZ02YW
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,131Please respect copyright.PENANAseJsZ8t6sO
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,131Please respect copyright.PENANAx1adZKhZIQ
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,131Please respect copyright.PENANAGMGU361ZBy
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.131Please respect copyright.PENANAH6WAc36fNC
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,131Please respect copyright.PENANADJADOQ73tQ
In memory still green, though browning in parts,131Please respect copyright.PENANAQx1y8JyhhY
Taking poetic license where I must,131Please respect copyright.PENANAgMv43k4WoC
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.131Please respect copyright.PENANAcLkEykwsk1
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,131Please respect copyright.PENANAGAudww5sVt
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,131Please respect copyright.PENANAi3OthTYYL7
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,131Please respect copyright.PENANAJNRB08hCM7
By hungry vultures out of existence.131Please respect copyright.PENANA9rxGPDwDIq
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Remembering a day in my career,131Please respect copyright.PENANAgyusi38eGF
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,131Please respect copyright.PENANAyYDIBdLHA4
And had not opened doors I could not close,131Please respect copyright.PENANAutJQkdGxDv
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.131Please respect copyright.PENANAq2sdqUObRj
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,131Please respect copyright.PENANAcAz5Ch3UPg
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,131Please respect copyright.PENANAAyv7MTxt3Q
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,131Please respect copyright.PENANAODxBAwCUCo
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.131Please respect copyright.PENANA02ksvnl0hS
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The painful memories I now drown in,131Please respect copyright.PENANAUh0LePU85I
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,131Please respect copyright.PENANAA0KW8pHHGH
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,131Please respect copyright.PENANAO4eFC99Nm6
To protect myself and those I have loved.131Please respect copyright.PENANAalSqtvPeAr
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,131Please respect copyright.PENANAAImGXNeUkZ
Describe what I've learned that others should know,131Please respect copyright.PENANAxOZqj2Ff6t
Weave the personal with transparent thread,131Please respect copyright.PENANAOip1Imx8ef
The professional with thickest red yarn.131Please respect copyright.PENANA9RONO6R2TT
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,131Please respect copyright.PENANACwYb0vKufc
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,131Please respect copyright.PENANAqdvVse0vDJ
And I believe it will find a market,131Please respect copyright.PENANAFOhK0Vdbeb
For it will reveal some essential truths.131Please respect copyright.PENANA5VcYa0btEd
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It will teach much more that all need to know,131Please respect copyright.PENANAco3mua7VhU
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,131Please respect copyright.PENANAwNswl5hRVi
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,131Please respect copyright.PENANA4zdgwtlqJE
Hope I can write it before my life ends.131Please respect copyright.PENANAYdYLgcSnXz
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,131Please respect copyright.PENANAJdzrwmMssQ
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.131Please respect copyright.PENANAvg2Fjqkgrz
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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