Started writing it two decades ago,132Please respect copyright.PENANAiUADlDYtUf
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,132Please respect copyright.PENANAXyDrcpOu1S
To protect the guilty and innocent,132Please respect copyright.PENANAfvCS1OCdKJ
In this autobiographical work.132Please respect copyright.PENANABR3GIMlT5l
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Life got in the way of reliving it,132Please respect copyright.PENANAmyrsbQGKuh
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,132Please respect copyright.PENANA6YtNiHetVr
Back burners full of overflowing pots,132Please respect copyright.PENANAtuBYeHOPWE
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.132Please respect copyright.PENANAfx8shNsHtU
132Please respect copyright.PENANATvLQS3NvsR
Serious writing projects completed,132Please respect copyright.PENANAZqyCRgiWFk
A dozen plus books published,132Please respect copyright.PENANA0QFmOMS2l5
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,132Please respect copyright.PENANAWergnK4oVk
New courses to develop and to teach.132Please respect copyright.PENANAUngamKxVDW
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,132Please respect copyright.PENANABge4RvwTth
But not not written down to pass down my truth,132Please respect copyright.PENANAEThqNrtikf
About things I know much more than I'd like,132Please respect copyright.PENANAhirVLpLsp6
And others should learn, in old age and youth.132Please respect copyright.PENANAikKA9sRTTV
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,132Please respect copyright.PENANANBsRZmVD6a
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,132Please respect copyright.PENANAXQF3cIRDCN
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,132Please respect copyright.PENANAMiNhtlvGrz
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.132Please respect copyright.PENANAIUbuDknSmS
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,132Please respect copyright.PENANAEbMihR28aK
In memory still green, though browning in parts,132Please respect copyright.PENANAghss4OFPNv
Taking poetic license where I must,132Please respect copyright.PENANAJcxBNXWAMT
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.132Please respect copyright.PENANAQMJn9WSSdd
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,132Please respect copyright.PENANATdevCkzvS8
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,132Please respect copyright.PENANA8rxjE6cROw
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,132Please respect copyright.PENANAb5cbxUiRkW
By hungry vultures out of existence.132Please respect copyright.PENANAh486PrDz1Z
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Remembering a day in my career,132Please respect copyright.PENANAfhJqg04E8x
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,132Please respect copyright.PENANAC11uFQtjLL
And had not opened doors I could not close,132Please respect copyright.PENANAMxeBM6NuPW
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.132Please respect copyright.PENANAO271I7shMI
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,132Please respect copyright.PENANAqL0xLRMZ7c
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,132Please respect copyright.PENANAbRtmuJdrJt
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,132Please respect copyright.PENANAnApCTjkGJr
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.132Please respect copyright.PENANAQgnARtVD76
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The painful memories I now drown in,132Please respect copyright.PENANAJkBeuECbhI
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,132Please respect copyright.PENANARHv82rFlTn
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,132Please respect copyright.PENANA2Hb1DFGCif
To protect myself and those I have loved.132Please respect copyright.PENANAlRsHsShh2H
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,132Please respect copyright.PENANAX1S9Iub2SS
Describe what I've learned that others should know,132Please respect copyright.PENANAgPIFJWVokv
Weave the personal with transparent thread,132Please respect copyright.PENANAfHawRLtiLy
The professional with thickest red yarn.132Please respect copyright.PENANA6KNEDkGzsI
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,132Please respect copyright.PENANAqxpvD0D9BB
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,132Please respect copyright.PENANAA64WyIo0uL
And I believe it will find a market,132Please respect copyright.PENANAFEQMKoDZpv
For it will reveal some essential truths.132Please respect copyright.PENANAuD8PKGHUmO
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It will teach much more that all need to know,132Please respect copyright.PENANAqXtOxIll5q
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,132Please respect copyright.PENANAGXrRyMQt2a
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,132Please respect copyright.PENANAxB2Nk3oqbR
Hope I can write it before my life ends.132Please respect copyright.PENANABT5DoJRaA0
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,132Please respect copyright.PENANALf7WbT3YBM
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.132Please respect copyright.PENANAOWj3PBMoQ1
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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