Started writing it two decades ago,81Please respect copyright.PENANAz7r3S4NdlG
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,81Please respect copyright.PENANA4amuXyQaVx
To protect the guilty and innocent,81Please respect copyright.PENANAhS60qTmu0U
In this autobiographical work.81Please respect copyright.PENANAwO3eW0Vt8r
81Please respect copyright.PENANAVVhh0Q7IEc
Life got in the way of reliving it,81Please respect copyright.PENANAG9MaGXI7Mr
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,81Please respect copyright.PENANAmEYOtzqS3A
Back burners full of overflowing pots,81Please respect copyright.PENANAyNdE9719rv
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.81Please respect copyright.PENANAW9KPsUIpyJ
81Please respect copyright.PENANASXaSrXQoAw
Serious writing projects completed,81Please respect copyright.PENANAVWQts9zQSu
A dozen plus books published,81Please respect copyright.PENANAzO5gEIzUox
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,81Please respect copyright.PENANAP6urt8I3e3
New courses to develop and to teach.81Please respect copyright.PENANAfS1AORy04m
81Please respect copyright.PENANAYzs7FzKUm8
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,81Please respect copyright.PENANA7qruA3Wq9S
But not not written down to pass down my truth,81Please respect copyright.PENANAcCR1htTN60
About things I know much more than I'd like,81Please respect copyright.PENANAxPqDxNfLQv
And others should learn, in old age and youth.81Please respect copyright.PENANAksy2wDv8y2
81Please respect copyright.PENANAUDQdXlhfg1
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,81Please respect copyright.PENANAYYnh60WORV
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,81Please respect copyright.PENANA4eZxdis2tz
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,81Please respect copyright.PENANAZpBjkYEu8J
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.81Please respect copyright.PENANAGfQUPQHLex
81Please respect copyright.PENANAEHKlI7Ca7P
So I'm back again, reliving the past,81Please respect copyright.PENANAptqK7mHzQp
In memory still green, though browning in parts,81Please respect copyright.PENANAkbXpHQKuhB
Taking poetic license where I must,81Please respect copyright.PENANAkGGG04FDy6
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.81Please respect copyright.PENANAngoutS6Tqn
81Please respect copyright.PENANAxu9t5Q0D5a
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,81Please respect copyright.PENANAPrctGPEd3l
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,81Please respect copyright.PENANAY2VKMcbXl7
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,81Please respect copyright.PENANAEjlOOakTI9
By hungry vultures out of existence.81Please respect copyright.PENANAl5As7xPHON
81Please respect copyright.PENANANqEjBOxQHt
Remembering a day in my career,81Please respect copyright.PENANAanpXaRtGm4
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,81Please respect copyright.PENANAlqr4kT2VAF
And had not opened doors I could not close,81Please respect copyright.PENANAyAdiJiwLhI
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.81Please respect copyright.PENANAqKxTBz0ldw
81Please respect copyright.PENANAiTKFsXuGcy
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,81Please respect copyright.PENANA3VGqPDQPoD
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,81Please respect copyright.PENANAaulaIKLvPW
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,81Please respect copyright.PENANA5D5pivBxmz
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.81Please respect copyright.PENANA6ssswdXjuT
81Please respect copyright.PENANAu0BRPLr2Ij
The painful memories I now drown in,81Please respect copyright.PENANAsH9A7WGL3w
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,81Please respect copyright.PENANAMkFrz3onMv
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,81Please respect copyright.PENANAmW4smmQEVW
To protect myself and those I have loved.81Please respect copyright.PENANA6seOizjhoU
81Please respect copyright.PENANAZRRNzCkC66
I'll limit my journey to work alone,81Please respect copyright.PENANAxh8lWRPqYL
Describe what I've learned that others should know,81Please respect copyright.PENANAuXhPNGw6jA
Weave the personal with transparent thread,81Please respect copyright.PENANApb51XVnAXh
The professional with thickest red yarn.81Please respect copyright.PENANAk1CqTGn83e
81Please respect copyright.PENANAtX1jdf2T48
I'll search for an agent when it is done,81Please respect copyright.PENANAd4m1K5QyVI
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,81Please respect copyright.PENANA1Vz3YeP8ip
And I believe it will find a market,81Please respect copyright.PENANAjNNxDGGXX5
For it will reveal some essential truths.81Please respect copyright.PENANAZFY0H53j7h
81Please respect copyright.PENANAZQsQALFM0f
It will teach much more that all need to know,81Please respect copyright.PENANAFltvxiDcb2
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,81Please respect copyright.PENANAJpuYR5owej
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,81Please respect copyright.PENANA5PdSM8KdGC
Hope I can write it before my life ends.81Please respect copyright.PENANAM7F7DFmRnd
81Please respect copyright.PENANA2EwwMMZEN5
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,81Please respect copyright.PENANAnbYVRP8ULU
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.81Please respect copyright.PENANA8I7E2HqnuK
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ISSUE #11
On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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