Started writing it two decades ago,502Please respect copyright.PENANA08nImWUGY4
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,502Please respect copyright.PENANApFRiSDCiQB
To protect the guilty and innocent,502Please respect copyright.PENANA5G6Uaoy4BT
In this autobiographical work.502Please respect copyright.PENANAUJKSDBKFji
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Life got in the way of reliving it,502Please respect copyright.PENANA4ET3qcx6T5
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,502Please respect copyright.PENANAbdZwlhGCAi
Back burners full of overflowing pots,502Please respect copyright.PENANAbmhbzMN8sN
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.502Please respect copyright.PENANAfOAgxOAYJn
502Please respect copyright.PENANAk4Ter0SCL9
Serious writing projects completed,502Please respect copyright.PENANA9Bw268UMQj
A dozen plus books published,502Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4fUF6QAQH
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,502Please respect copyright.PENANAa32dHutBpU
New courses to develop and to teach.502Please respect copyright.PENANAfSBm2NEhs8
502Please respect copyright.PENANAKj8IJzAxb2
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,502Please respect copyright.PENANAzdS3PfzLtk
But not not written down to pass down my truth,502Please respect copyright.PENANABFlDQe5jeu
About things I know much more than I'd like,502Please respect copyright.PENANAIxlDgSPKg3
And others should learn, in old age and youth.502Please respect copyright.PENANAOtt5eWdRds
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,502Please respect copyright.PENANAmt0CCoaG20
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,502Please respect copyright.PENANA4RAs3YlJCR
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,502Please respect copyright.PENANAgIkUCBkJz2
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.502Please respect copyright.PENANAcLOYgfBOFa
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,502Please respect copyright.PENANAqb6hvYysyA
In memory still green, though browning in parts,502Please respect copyright.PENANAS367cJoXkq
Taking poetic license where I must,502Please respect copyright.PENANAHbqiKFdDdr
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.502Please respect copyright.PENANANSzZ3aSmCu
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,502Please respect copyright.PENANAsEqWxnTwPx
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,502Please respect copyright.PENANALlRMvWRfb9
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,502Please respect copyright.PENANAZM8SshqcdQ
By hungry vultures out of existence.502Please respect copyright.PENANA1Pqh1iHhj1
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Remembering a day in my career,502Please respect copyright.PENANASm88cn2ySg
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,502Please respect copyright.PENANAhaaXvCsPds
And had not opened doors I could not close,502Please respect copyright.PENANAHWUmLACiu4
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.502Please respect copyright.PENANAcTydsaEl0y
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,502Please respect copyright.PENANA8jI5EIUQyH
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,502Please respect copyright.PENANAOZEw40jPIU
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,502Please respect copyright.PENANAPZctG2du96
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.502Please respect copyright.PENANAvvcesPjvFZ
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The painful memories I now drown in,502Please respect copyright.PENANAClxnRTQego
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,502Please respect copyright.PENANA4BXKHxaruW
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,502Please respect copyright.PENANAL6qyD7JS29
To protect myself and those I have loved.502Please respect copyright.PENANAvDzKwZpPls
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,502Please respect copyright.PENANAEtx8NIjbso
Describe what I've learned that others should know,502Please respect copyright.PENANAOm9zCsgD9Z
Weave the personal with transparent thread,502Please respect copyright.PENANANCONr7bOQt
The professional with thickest red yarn.502Please respect copyright.PENANAeJwMo34PmU
502Please respect copyright.PENANA6w8581vRmL
I'll search for an agent when it is done,502Please respect copyright.PENANAcdf8ZF1noz
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,502Please respect copyright.PENANAAn1Fm1GHb4
And I believe it will find a market,502Please respect copyright.PENANAKO2vjRXVSh
For it will reveal some essential truths.502Please respect copyright.PENANAkwUyvD4WZt
502Please respect copyright.PENANAjQa2WJcWxT
It will teach much more that all need to know,502Please respect copyright.PENANACfmFk0fgOL
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,502Please respect copyright.PENANArE8ruD2NwF
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,502Please respect copyright.PENANApZNVVQKRBK
Hope I can write it before my life ends.502Please respect copyright.PENANAuwhQxNv9Q6
502Please respect copyright.PENANAQ9WMytTeQH
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,502Please respect copyright.PENANAUpx7tVz2Wm
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.502Please respect copyright.PENANATjN32KlIVI
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On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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