Started writing it two decades ago,94Please respect copyright.PENANAeOu1i0wA62
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,94Please respect copyright.PENANAoMoemwk7TT
To protect the guilty and innocent,94Please respect copyright.PENANA29jXQcNNm7
In this autobiographical work.94Please respect copyright.PENANAeukpfGOx5i
94Please respect copyright.PENANAdgD4VJyorJ
Life got in the way of reliving it,94Please respect copyright.PENANA7br3uSlQFB
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,94Please respect copyright.PENANAHI8g3xGc4x
Back burners full of overflowing pots,94Please respect copyright.PENANAehlcQEHP8o
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.94Please respect copyright.PENANASBbR8pcwkx
94Please respect copyright.PENANAcCGrjfKr4l
Serious writing projects completed,94Please respect copyright.PENANAZnFq58hunp
A dozen plus books published,94Please respect copyright.PENANAqkw6M8O2HN
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,94Please respect copyright.PENANAbzpawz8mWf
New courses to develop and to teach.94Please respect copyright.PENANA28J5Ko1BIr
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,94Please respect copyright.PENANAiNSiWtRR1Q
But not not written down to pass down my truth,94Please respect copyright.PENANA3RCxSoSo7c
About things I know much more than I'd like,94Please respect copyright.PENANARNoIMYgaau
And others should learn, in old age and youth.94Please respect copyright.PENANA4loACdzz7K
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,94Please respect copyright.PENANA3fpthlXVsW
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,94Please respect copyright.PENANAJWOeZ9EZv2
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,94Please respect copyright.PENANARuZJCiPXlW
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.94Please respect copyright.PENANAJsevkkJcb9
94Please respect copyright.PENANAOm7TakazgJ
So I'm back again, reliving the past,94Please respect copyright.PENANAhLmbFG0zLM
In memory still green, though browning in parts,94Please respect copyright.PENANAHdldcBf3L0
Taking poetic license where I must,94Please respect copyright.PENANANvFmUtZFU0
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.94Please respect copyright.PENANA3sXFNFyLhh
94Please respect copyright.PENANApI8ccUaYgS
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,94Please respect copyright.PENANAMUB6LRCqxj
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,94Please respect copyright.PENANAJafP5Cycsq
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,94Please respect copyright.PENANANsulEKIpTu
By hungry vultures out of existence.94Please respect copyright.PENANAb8WXytfoWv
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Remembering a day in my career,94Please respect copyright.PENANAqELCpLdS3Q
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,94Please respect copyright.PENANASLaGdhrQzw
And had not opened doors I could not close,94Please respect copyright.PENANAXPx0shlcMh
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.94Please respect copyright.PENANAVyREEKV4Al
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,94Please respect copyright.PENANAdU5HD0lLuy
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,94Please respect copyright.PENANAzN6aBuk0S2
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,94Please respect copyright.PENANASa6xd0mmFj
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.94Please respect copyright.PENANAIuEyRycOU7
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The painful memories I now drown in,94Please respect copyright.PENANAoJGj5zy6GC
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,94Please respect copyright.PENANA45Goad2pnN
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,94Please respect copyright.PENANAA4D03WDpcW
To protect myself and those I have loved.94Please respect copyright.PENANA5cvwX4aybJ
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,94Please respect copyright.PENANAhhhp0iLqtm
Describe what I've learned that others should know,94Please respect copyright.PENANAEdgKCEl9Ia
Weave the personal with transparent thread,94Please respect copyright.PENANA46DCikoRpf
The professional with thickest red yarn.94Please respect copyright.PENANALBbGxhcg4r
94Please respect copyright.PENANAmFc9htTULU
I'll search for an agent when it is done,94Please respect copyright.PENANAYmCSfSD2xQ
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,94Please respect copyright.PENANAyRk9IotKt0
And I believe it will find a market,94Please respect copyright.PENANAA92J8lWcmY
For it will reveal some essential truths.94Please respect copyright.PENANA0oX7nyoqVe
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It will teach much more that all need to know,94Please respect copyright.PENANA5Scn4vsa5h
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,94Please respect copyright.PENANAwGsP5Xj10h
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,94Please respect copyright.PENANAsotjA3Gu1K
Hope I can write it before my life ends.94Please respect copyright.PENANAGHCdWwcyq9
94Please respect copyright.PENANAhmpZ7cdZNe
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,94Please respect copyright.PENANA0NEMF6XUZ9
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.94Please respect copyright.PENANA3C3hmHDKrh
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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