Started writing it two decades ago,504Please respect copyright.PENANAObALct9m0z
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,504Please respect copyright.PENANAxeEcVMH1OK
To protect the guilty and innocent,504Please respect copyright.PENANA7LRMwLsEwe
In this autobiographical work.504Please respect copyright.PENANAVj5JJFQHQn
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Life got in the way of reliving it,504Please respect copyright.PENANAxhzIoHt68t
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,504Please respect copyright.PENANAhQ3ejoPstU
Back burners full of overflowing pots,504Please respect copyright.PENANAPQ68shx933
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.504Please respect copyright.PENANABPcXGHksl2
504Please respect copyright.PENANAyJqjS5KBRn
Serious writing projects completed,504Please respect copyright.PENANAEbUwCa1e3o
A dozen plus books published,504Please respect copyright.PENANA5Wm5sMqOJM
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,504Please respect copyright.PENANAjImYm24BUK
New courses to develop and to teach.504Please respect copyright.PENANAFoQVKpZwli
504Please respect copyright.PENANAU0JCOXsmhY
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,504Please respect copyright.PENANA3bvzlzDQrW
But not not written down to pass down my truth,504Please respect copyright.PENANAXjShVUUQBt
About things I know much more than I'd like,504Please respect copyright.PENANAfYxvdet1Lf
And others should learn, in old age and youth.504Please respect copyright.PENANA1ehfaMBBuB
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,504Please respect copyright.PENANAxrVYBZ2cLa
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,504Please respect copyright.PENANAHJB5kZ4emD
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,504Please respect copyright.PENANA857gYyhREq
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.504Please respect copyright.PENANA8wiq3QA3DJ
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,504Please respect copyright.PENANA1mvsKp9rZI
In memory still green, though browning in parts,504Please respect copyright.PENANAj3Tkog3Och
Taking poetic license where I must,504Please respect copyright.PENANAEliL8vzguG
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.504Please respect copyright.PENANA2vJJl0S7Ki
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,504Please respect copyright.PENANAE22lQrHEAm
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,504Please respect copyright.PENANAGLp1PgbyZN
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,504Please respect copyright.PENANAdbt19wTZ7u
By hungry vultures out of existence.504Please respect copyright.PENANAX8QQnvgsd0
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Remembering a day in my career,504Please respect copyright.PENANAOy9yHCPI1F
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,504Please respect copyright.PENANAefoljq2D1i
And had not opened doors I could not close,504Please respect copyright.PENANAWbTp1pT64M
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.504Please respect copyright.PENANAPsJ4WpP4wI
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,504Please respect copyright.PENANASy8j1IKOkq
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,504Please respect copyright.PENANAtQ0w3kI9Jl
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,504Please respect copyright.PENANATv4YhWc5F9
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.504Please respect copyright.PENANA7wisQ6ilgL
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The painful memories I now drown in,504Please respect copyright.PENANA3wLGOe7DRp
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,504Please respect copyright.PENANArrHsN2YCTL
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,504Please respect copyright.PENANAz8NRFTtNhk
To protect myself and those I have loved.504Please respect copyright.PENANAVJta7TcpuD
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,504Please respect copyright.PENANAtsbgsaK0it
Describe what I've learned that others should know,504Please respect copyright.PENANAklKFpHBIjT
Weave the personal with transparent thread,504Please respect copyright.PENANAWUc1GoC0Sp
The professional with thickest red yarn.504Please respect copyright.PENANAC88WNvyMDl
504Please respect copyright.PENANAC3Q13lYrqy
I'll search for an agent when it is done,504Please respect copyright.PENANAvpvDz1b6Rl
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,504Please respect copyright.PENANAVu2FR3jCK0
And I believe it will find a market,504Please respect copyright.PENANA6Smk4x5RGZ
For it will reveal some essential truths.504Please respect copyright.PENANASVLF5flvAJ
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It will teach much more that all need to know,504Please respect copyright.PENANADtq31zmBTh
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,504Please respect copyright.PENANAmgGvtDXV36
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,504Please respect copyright.PENANAPNQw59F4lo
Hope I can write it before my life ends.504Please respect copyright.PENANAwipJj4Y05n
504Please respect copyright.PENANA0o2M0nmnVr
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,504Please respect copyright.PENANAyZsS5VD5nS
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.504Please respect copyright.PENANAfWt0ERsn7m
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On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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