Started writing it two decades ago,130Please respect copyright.PENANA6iBGQGcvCq
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,130Please respect copyright.PENANA3fyqfP5EOz
To protect the guilty and innocent,130Please respect copyright.PENANAM4XlPNVu8k
In this autobiographical work.130Please respect copyright.PENANAJg4WCQyYqk
130Please respect copyright.PENANA2Wsv6tO1Xu
Life got in the way of reliving it,130Please respect copyright.PENANAdFEWCe8TjE
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,130Please respect copyright.PENANAIwdPtpEyQ7
Back burners full of overflowing pots,130Please respect copyright.PENANARQGJh8PvAz
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.130Please respect copyright.PENANA41IDmSEY4n
130Please respect copyright.PENANAXxYtrMlAQn
Serious writing projects completed,130Please respect copyright.PENANARCs5fRb3qS
A dozen plus books published,130Please respect copyright.PENANA1lR0Am3Qmq
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,130Please respect copyright.PENANAoldltZNCQz
New courses to develop and to teach.130Please respect copyright.PENANArozJJAcwXP
130Please respect copyright.PENANAju1p0PoAXm
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,130Please respect copyright.PENANAp22lpoUhWb
But not not written down to pass down my truth,130Please respect copyright.PENANAyA8mkEI39f
About things I know much more than I'd like,130Please respect copyright.PENANA8nzSwbyFMN
And others should learn, in old age and youth.130Please respect copyright.PENANAcno6jub1n2
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,130Please respect copyright.PENANA6E3BnjUfXE
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,130Please respect copyright.PENANALtAC8HY1Di
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,130Please respect copyright.PENANAUSHjkqWBA1
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.130Please respect copyright.PENANAYVgMtSIGPw
130Please respect copyright.PENANAKwkXE8ayAW
So I'm back again, reliving the past,130Please respect copyright.PENANAj4ND97rHNS
In memory still green, though browning in parts,130Please respect copyright.PENANAOkh4MvCXb7
Taking poetic license where I must,130Please respect copyright.PENANA3yOqL2TyV9
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.130Please respect copyright.PENANA9lzvTGoREk
130Please respect copyright.PENANAEFamLhQeQJ
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,130Please respect copyright.PENANAfl4GimpK8X
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,130Please respect copyright.PENANAgUsKbWxDmU
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,130Please respect copyright.PENANAPmxLy6kEEA
By hungry vultures out of existence.130Please respect copyright.PENANAnGrKM4EEct
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Remembering a day in my career,130Please respect copyright.PENANARd27Fmp5LL
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,130Please respect copyright.PENANAHEiyiIlPJU
And had not opened doors I could not close,130Please respect copyright.PENANAMtsK359SgY
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.130Please respect copyright.PENANA1XQuIr4aEV
130Please respect copyright.PENANAawLCLlaowS
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,130Please respect copyright.PENANAhYxL9pl14U
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,130Please respect copyright.PENANAxKWp11MTVZ
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,130Please respect copyright.PENANAj0atnu2NAH
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.130Please respect copyright.PENANAdPUeOO5ZEq
130Please respect copyright.PENANA7vBR1cEWiq
The painful memories I now drown in,130Please respect copyright.PENANABMrMRYagF6
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,130Please respect copyright.PENANAzDtsMFOfCq
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,130Please respect copyright.PENANA7Sx0QdJkVX
To protect myself and those I have loved.130Please respect copyright.PENANAYGDgyUD22B
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,130Please respect copyright.PENANARKp0UuieCg
Describe what I've learned that others should know,130Please respect copyright.PENANAWvlXwGaMX9
Weave the personal with transparent thread,130Please respect copyright.PENANAOnOFyLfC1y
The professional with thickest red yarn.130Please respect copyright.PENANAyFMVuwKIhI
130Please respect copyright.PENANA2kqotZlEPn
I'll search for an agent when it is done,130Please respect copyright.PENANAZfVMkpdyS2
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,130Please respect copyright.PENANA8WzSEXgIWJ
And I believe it will find a market,130Please respect copyright.PENANANnq5jxwktc
For it will reveal some essential truths.130Please respect copyright.PENANAc4v5ogROKM
130Please respect copyright.PENANA5eyVvZzuFT
It will teach much more that all need to know,130Please respect copyright.PENANA5KpQxtzmui
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,130Please respect copyright.PENANAGIru3GknAP
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,130Please respect copyright.PENANAs0FrmWjp5C
Hope I can write it before my life ends.130Please respect copyright.PENANAnsZH1ZVLp6
130Please respect copyright.PENANAo3CwHCJ69A
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,130Please respect copyright.PENANA7oTEuvsUcu
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.130Please respect copyright.PENANA7EIbxuc3Ks
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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