Started writing it two decades ago,503Please respect copyright.PENANAsQh5HSGeXk
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,503Please respect copyright.PENANAZytsOiBdxZ
To protect the guilty and innocent,503Please respect copyright.PENANAcGxlDPci55
In this autobiographical work.503Please respect copyright.PENANAkpILEqiezL
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Life got in the way of reliving it,503Please respect copyright.PENANAWDOv8W5LyQ
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,503Please respect copyright.PENANAumKgwHPtsX
Back burners full of overflowing pots,503Please respect copyright.PENANAZ4JkZATWji
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.503Please respect copyright.PENANAb5UVmWovIU
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Serious writing projects completed,503Please respect copyright.PENANAL87HdiB2yz
A dozen plus books published,503Please respect copyright.PENANAeRZ0yolPdF
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,503Please respect copyright.PENANA1Ryh055IUE
New courses to develop and to teach.503Please respect copyright.PENANAv85lo9xviF
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,503Please respect copyright.PENANA6GnbIDZtOP
But not not written down to pass down my truth,503Please respect copyright.PENANAPJGgueUfeX
About things I know much more than I'd like,503Please respect copyright.PENANAIyzPd812yE
And others should learn, in old age and youth.503Please respect copyright.PENANAqIOpodhAUR
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,503Please respect copyright.PENANAo0xGTgaCnv
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,503Please respect copyright.PENANABmvhhM38pp
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,503Please respect copyright.PENANAQBhDj1XLdk
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.503Please respect copyright.PENANAwtwqmc1zcz
503Please respect copyright.PENANAeq8uhr0zL0
So I'm back again, reliving the past,503Please respect copyright.PENANAcic3mHm0m1
In memory still green, though browning in parts,503Please respect copyright.PENANAAWNGw8ulAj
Taking poetic license where I must,503Please respect copyright.PENANAXq7LwLz707
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.503Please respect copyright.PENANAWuUpDjaDkm
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,503Please respect copyright.PENANAgbwpsYXkRI
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,503Please respect copyright.PENANAc3vjS1Fgbx
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,503Please respect copyright.PENANA1nrgTJRdka
By hungry vultures out of existence.503Please respect copyright.PENANAa6oF6bjSNh
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Remembering a day in my career,503Please respect copyright.PENANAojDFVmmLWk
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,503Please respect copyright.PENANALIk4AAPFev
And had not opened doors I could not close,503Please respect copyright.PENANASZUHIOIzwe
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.503Please respect copyright.PENANAg5GPsWebIl
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,503Please respect copyright.PENANAlyRVHQEema
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,503Please respect copyright.PENANA0NReJjVxBU
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,503Please respect copyright.PENANA89ZNfSMvom
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.503Please respect copyright.PENANALIVBh1XeJf
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The painful memories I now drown in,503Please respect copyright.PENANAHNP6JhUkDC
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,503Please respect copyright.PENANAgPzYCrXP3D
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,503Please respect copyright.PENANA3FUslyvhYA
To protect myself and those I have loved.503Please respect copyright.PENANA0NeUGmlVDi
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,503Please respect copyright.PENANAL9z1zJ7CrM
Describe what I've learned that others should know,503Please respect copyright.PENANAmAUjibepFh
Weave the personal with transparent thread,503Please respect copyright.PENANAbyUKr28xPk
The professional with thickest red yarn.503Please respect copyright.PENANAMjLBP4axJO
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,503Please respect copyright.PENANAsxsD9BzgsN
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,503Please respect copyright.PENANA8lqjem0aSK
And I believe it will find a market,503Please respect copyright.PENANA2Otk4PoTm1
For it will reveal some essential truths.503Please respect copyright.PENANAqsB3hwGa68
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It will teach much more that all need to know,503Please respect copyright.PENANAPztWCyNKxF
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,503Please respect copyright.PENANAr6QQfqfBy6
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,503Please respect copyright.PENANAXItJJOIbVj
Hope I can write it before my life ends.503Please respect copyright.PENANAWjxh0H4iRG
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,503Please respect copyright.PENANABerj39k8O0
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.503Please respect copyright.PENANAoqXFNZpXpG
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On Writing My First Novel (written poem)
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