Started writing it two decades ago,89Please respect copyright.PENANAa79vIgNO5N
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,89Please respect copyright.PENANA2KDYoMuM98
To protect the guilty and innocent,89Please respect copyright.PENANAwjeRmk1KCx
In this autobiographical work.89Please respect copyright.PENANAqyGafy1RBQ
89Please respect copyright.PENANAIXQtEmq7jy
Life got in the way of reliving it,89Please respect copyright.PENANA5LOJpBD8YI
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,89Please respect copyright.PENANAbCeuMvuMSO
Back burners full of overflowing pots,89Please respect copyright.PENANAiQWd1FWQdE
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.89Please respect copyright.PENANA95JhnsPl6B
89Please respect copyright.PENANAAcS5mZ7TFp
Serious writing projects completed,89Please respect copyright.PENANA2Ez2crWE4J
A dozen plus books published,89Please respect copyright.PENANA6uwJOOOHCm
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,89Please respect copyright.PENANA1Y0tNT21QY
New courses to develop and to teach.89Please respect copyright.PENANAXcdGXjtRKT
89Please respect copyright.PENANAH2ocVnPR23
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,89Please respect copyright.PENANApUFsE1eeUu
But not not written down to pass down my truth,89Please respect copyright.PENANAYfMPfSYcMp
About things I know much more than I'd like,89Please respect copyright.PENANADl9lOklg51
And others should learn, in old age and youth.89Please respect copyright.PENANA56AvY9vDBy
89Please respect copyright.PENANAuKSKDaPJDi
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,89Please respect copyright.PENANAsG1IVwyhsn
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,89Please respect copyright.PENANAHogdTzQksH
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,89Please respect copyright.PENANAvK0G1puQPa
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.89Please respect copyright.PENANAP5RE3UsgcV
89Please respect copyright.PENANABNjO0lm4GF
So I'm back again, reliving the past,89Please respect copyright.PENANAGhshBsoavf
In memory still green, though browning in parts,89Please respect copyright.PENANAelPd1vwux4
Taking poetic license where I must,89Please respect copyright.PENANA4FDiNsvU16
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.89Please respect copyright.PENANAIGHBO5Gg1q
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,89Please respect copyright.PENANAMCtqng2jev
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,89Please respect copyright.PENANAYOvmcQ63LX
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,89Please respect copyright.PENANASHWy2gGY9K
By hungry vultures out of existence.89Please respect copyright.PENANAD9ZTJnDDy9
89Please respect copyright.PENANAKWMxkP7wVt
Remembering a day in my career,89Please respect copyright.PENANARUmnmk0vku
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,89Please respect copyright.PENANARn5jjOygGU
And had not opened doors I could not close,89Please respect copyright.PENANAIrRl2FSubx
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.89Please respect copyright.PENANAXLW6twh2wi
89Please respect copyright.PENANAg8EFyFvdUv
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,89Please respect copyright.PENANAu2NWFOCPYY
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,89Please respect copyright.PENANAdRFtv7G4UG
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,89Please respect copyright.PENANAieldLGkGte
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.89Please respect copyright.PENANAT3II6p0bZp
89Please respect copyright.PENANAMZI3Mt7v0q
The painful memories I now drown in,89Please respect copyright.PENANArMWzk4ZmBN
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,89Please respect copyright.PENANA9xrpEDMKmB
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,89Please respect copyright.PENANA0FGXf0OpSd
To protect myself and those I have loved.89Please respect copyright.PENANA1Ba2yYdD8F
89Please respect copyright.PENANAgNh8RJWkGw
I'll limit my journey to work alone,89Please respect copyright.PENANAf5ypyxGFg4
Describe what I've learned that others should know,89Please respect copyright.PENANAVTZPCcsHqN
Weave the personal with transparent thread,89Please respect copyright.PENANAKnFevIzy9o
The professional with thickest red yarn.89Please respect copyright.PENANANArH6el7Wt
89Please respect copyright.PENANAsgsRAJkzFw
I'll search for an agent when it is done,89Please respect copyright.PENANAWX24V60EES
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,89Please respect copyright.PENANA5VP9ZzRBd9
And I believe it will find a market,89Please respect copyright.PENANAeBjBDgrU2k
For it will reveal some essential truths.89Please respect copyright.PENANAty543kI6dX
89Please respect copyright.PENANAG7SEWPQ0ac
It will teach much more that all need to know,89Please respect copyright.PENANAeaeudXlAJC
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,89Please respect copyright.PENANAyEWBZ3egnc
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,89Please respect copyright.PENANAaCdL73TUU5
Hope I can write it before my life ends.89Please respect copyright.PENANAgxXGglRHq1
89Please respect copyright.PENANA9fQC6RORpu
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,89Please respect copyright.PENANAxsCst79hlk
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.89Please respect copyright.PENANAPIAAjgdMz2
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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