Started writing it two decades ago,65Please respect copyright.PENANABDlvftuJCH
Using a pseudonym for first/last time,65Please respect copyright.PENANACPqKrEW0T1
To protect the guilty and innocent,65Please respect copyright.PENANAAM9KfQBr8J
In this autobiographical work.65Please respect copyright.PENANARRlRu7Bb7T
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Life got in the way of reliving it,65Please respect copyright.PENANA8Sj74K64UA
Work, wife, parents with health issues, now gone,65Please respect copyright.PENANA6aqBzKGqX8
Back burners full of overflowing pots,65Please respect copyright.PENANA2ZpMpzCjvH
The sands of time quickly sifting through my fingers.65Please respect copyright.PENANA38BEvKr6Lr
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Serious writing projects completed,65Please respect copyright.PENANATDWm4IGRop
A dozen plus books published,65Please respect copyright.PENANAs6gtaz9CDV
Others yet to come, new lectures to plan,65Please respect copyright.PENANA75b7TIb9YY
New courses to develop and to teach.65Please respect copyright.PENANAmNbIqgvFIV
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My story untold, lessons learned unfurled,65Please respect copyright.PENANAhYnx4qcFyN
But not not written down to pass down my truth,65Please respect copyright.PENANAQ4W6M9CY9m
About things I know much more than I'd like,65Please respect copyright.PENANA88j8uSA0nv
And others should learn, in old age and youth.65Please respect copyright.PENANA66aIF5SupN
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Place bound for now on an imposed lockdown,65Please respect copyright.PENANA5qF0VYyyQv
Chained to my desk like galley slaves to oars,65Please respect copyright.PENANA7FKndhiYm6
Taping lectures, attending Zoom meetings,65Please respect copyright.PENANAIlnasG1VpJ
Depression abounds, if not joy or sleep.65Please respect copyright.PENANArFazh6X2gw
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So I'm back again, reliving the past,65Please respect copyright.PENANAR9QqFkpGMJ
In memory still green, though browning in parts,65Please respect copyright.PENANA4TouIi9GaJ
Taking poetic license where I must,65Please respect copyright.PENANAvvp8b7FPAo
But gently as a child's butterfly kiss.65Please respect copyright.PENANARvZn7nMTxS
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Nearly nine thousand words today for just,65Please respect copyright.PENANAszmlD8qVMU
One day's events that sowed a thousand seeds,65Please respect copyright.PENANAInurk1Oqws
That sprouted, flourished and died or were pecked,65Please respect copyright.PENANAnMndXzfL0A
By hungry vultures out of existence.65Please respect copyright.PENANASVzagaTAos
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Remembering a day in my career,65Please respect copyright.PENANArOZvaosHZS
When I still viewed the world with bright, clear eyes,65Please respect copyright.PENANAovIjXr0Km9
And had not opened doors I could not close,65Please respect copyright.PENANA0zcqcCrPYp
Or walked by closed doors I should have opened.65Please respect copyright.PENANAC4leDnDsnS
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My world and heart were then innocent, pure,65Please respect copyright.PENANAmSSPuGK1C9
Full of good intentions waiting to burst,65Please respect copyright.PENANAIfcG0PmW1Y
From a chest that could hardly hold them back,65Please respect copyright.PENANAgYrW5Mp72S
Foolishly thinking they could change the world.65Please respect copyright.PENANAEm6qwK1Yfb
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The painful memories I now drown in,65Please respect copyright.PENANAlHZeerRQsN
I will not disclose. The pain I've given,65Please respect copyright.PENANA4H5sYiPC4o
The pain I've received, I'll whitewash away,65Please respect copyright.PENANAv1kwMB5bgq
To protect myself and those I have loved.65Please respect copyright.PENANAfg29D8HMyi
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I'll limit my journey to work alone,65Please respect copyright.PENANAqGaxbGze7G
Describe what I've learned that others should know,65Please respect copyright.PENANAdE49pakcZX
Weave the personal with transparent thread,65Please respect copyright.PENANAVKbQ4hlKEY
The professional with thickest red yarn.65Please respect copyright.PENANALEO9KWEiHi
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I'll search for an agent when it is done,65Please respect copyright.PENANAZL1hhEvVdY
As I'd like it read, unlike indie books,65Please respect copyright.PENANAmfIYSs0SwP
And I believe it will find a market,65Please respect copyright.PENANAIqZ1ODoonb
For it will reveal some essential truths.65Please respect copyright.PENANAa80ZOow1ej
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It will teach much more that all need to know,65Please respect copyright.PENANAElpYfpzva0
Than my life's work: Lectures, books, articles,65Please respect copyright.PENANAF0atWIz67a
Poetry, fiction, blogs, presentations,65Please respect copyright.PENANAMJGu9guSPl
Hope I can write it before my life ends.65Please respect copyright.PENANAvhHX0Je6M8
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My sand's running out, tick tock cries the clock,65Please respect copyright.PENANAIsVH7glIU3
Hope lockdown provides, end to writer's block.65Please respect copyright.PENANAh2m0WSi9AG