Started writing it two decades ago,411Please respect copyright.PENANAKfLAVgFphr
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,411Please respect copyright.PENANAvWIAaqCrjA
To protect the guilty and innocent,411Please respect copyright.PENANA1CnDFkgZW0
In this autobiographical work.411Please respect copyright.PENANAhUaGPWesH6
411Please respect copyright.PENANAXhiJPkXSIX
Life got in the way of reliving it,411Please respect copyright.PENANAsdOslYBbiX
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,411Please respect copyright.PENANAYbC2W5EM97
Back burners full of overflowing pots,411Please respect copyright.PENANAJPUttj1Fst
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.411Please respect copyright.PENANActuWLaN6pY
411Please respect copyright.PENANAOdDrUNjH0U
Serious writing projects completed,411Please respect copyright.PENANAuYIFxfxwkF
A dozen plus books published,411Please respect copyright.PENANA2lLCkXFexf
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,411Please respect copyright.PENANAXuNMDrrRMY
New courses to develop and to teach.411Please respect copyright.PENANAdHz70EpCeh
411Please respect copyright.PENANAIguVlTSnUW
My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,411Please respect copyright.PENANAOqeUHQWvoY
But not not written down to pass down my truth,411Please respect copyright.PENANAUA78qpKCUc
About things I know much more than I'd like,411Please respect copyright.PENANAZAExsblspu
And others should learn, in old age and youth.411Please respect copyright.PENANAOAUnutpY4b
411Please respect copyright.PENANA5t1uMIyK79
Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,411Please respect copyright.PENANAPh0UJOkE8S
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,411Please respect copyright.PENANA1x1bSxehG3
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,411Please respect copyright.PENANAXqcEavhsVn
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.411Please respect copyright.PENANAu9W3ZXiws1
411Please respect copyright.PENANAkHRaXgg1jv
So I'm back again, reliving the past,411Please respect copyright.PENANA2geVWnnynZ
In memory still green, though browning in parts,411Please respect copyright.PENANAsoCHLJQ4nK
Taking poetic license where I must,411Please respect copyright.PENANAccWTamqsHw
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.411Please respect copyright.PENANAhDwB2Gs7Vx
411Please respect copyright.PENANAdwwpHkloro
Nearly nine thousand words today for just,411Please respect copyright.PENANA1LwmTZyHwS
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,411Please respect copyright.PENANAkVgkfsAOmz
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,411Please respect copyright.PENANA560iHBfnfd
By hungry vultures out of existence.411Please respect copyright.PENANAAijCvN3yfU
411Please respect copyright.PENANA5oHlTMpmPz
Remembering a day in my career,411Please respect copyright.PENANApfKKBvP8IT
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,411Please respect copyright.PENANAbvg4PrNh3n
And had not opened doors I could not close,411Please respect copyright.PENANA00RP7AwJmr
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.411Please respect copyright.PENANAMj0BOaCL3p
411Please respect copyright.PENANANDSwc101KS
My world and heart were then innocent, pure,411Please respect copyright.PENANAe9sldhAdgU
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,411Please respect copyright.PENANASsvskVUhrV
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,411Please respect copyright.PENANAYYq8jsQVNW
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.411Please respect copyright.PENANAquy36SAUCN
411Please respect copyright.PENANAkYo2U6eRGi
The painful memories I now drown in,411Please respect copyright.PENANAHyMzqmQPqY
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,411Please respect copyright.PENANAEGK4BxgNuB
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,411Please respect copyright.PENANAxuSjPlwVCu
To protect myself and those I have loved.411Please respect copyright.PENANA3n9ebQ6Em9
411Please respect copyright.PENANACIpKUmogp4
I'll limit my journey to work alone,411Please respect copyright.PENANAJLzoK4mrVA
Describe what I've learned that others should know,411Please respect copyright.PENANAQ65Lp1OQN0
Weave the personal with transparent thread,411Please respect copyright.PENANAmBvq2Ht2Dx
The professional with thickest red yarn.411Please respect copyright.PENANAhkyfHWAfH5
411Please respect copyright.PENANA3meGMTohpb
I'll search for an agent when it is done,411Please respect copyright.PENANA1r3bNbuyz2
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,411Please respect copyright.PENANA5uPNhPFATy
And I believe it will find a market,411Please respect copyright.PENANA1iF1wAdjJ2
For it will reveal some essential truths.411Please respect copyright.PENANAKTPAJZQ0UC
411Please respect copyright.PENANAy15260nFY8
It will teach much more that all need to know,411Please respect copyright.PENANAvwBWOpkMin
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,411Please respect copyright.PENANAi12vU2XvTb
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,411Please respect copyright.PENANAZZSSprOpdB
Hope I can write it before my life ends.411Please respect copyright.PENANAdYObsymEk4
411Please respect copyright.PENANAomHzThdRhV
My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,411Please respect copyright.PENANAkEnQ86KWXI
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.411Please respect copyright.PENANAX8e28anVG1
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Victor D. Lopez
ISSUE #7
On Writing My First Novel (poem)
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Last updated: Mar 24, 2026
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