This courthouse is a hospice--
the end of the life line
for those long ailing, and weary of the fight.
This attorney is the surgeon,
distant, cool and sterile;
he is here to ensure the execution
of the procedure goes smoothly.
This marriage is my dying child
for which I would, a thousand times,
walk the miles to Jerricho
to rescue it from the jaws of impending death
if only I knew which direction to step.
Hi Vicky:
The analogies involving the couthouse as hospice, the attorney as surgeon and the end of the marriage as a kind of death with an aftermath of grieving work very well for this piece. The treatment is also enhanced by the brevity. This latter feature has allowed you to achieve "the enormous force of s few words" as articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his preface to *Parnassus*: "Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity."
For a different slant on the same topic, you might like to read and comment on my poems: *Metamorphosis* and *A Kind Of Death*.
Best wishes,
Patrick Talty
A Wannabe Poet from Down Under :->
Reviewed by Connie Hinnen Cook (Reader)
Reviewed on September 4, 2002
Very good! It should be hanging on the walls of every divorce court! Thanks for your comment on "For What It's Worth"...I appreciate it. Keep writing!
Fantastic read, again, universal truth that mends the isolation of individual pain. Got stuck again with one or two wording issues, other than that felt it to flow perfectly.
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The analogies involving the couthouse as hospice, the attorney as surgeon and the end of the marriage as a kind of death with an aftermath of grieving work very well for this piece. The treatment is also enhanced by the brevity. This latter feature has allowed you to achieve "the enormous force of s few words" as articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his preface to *Parnassus*: "Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity."
For a different slant on the same topic, you might like to read and comment on my poems: *Metamorphosis* and *A Kind Of Death*.
Best wishes,
Patrick Talty
A Wannabe Poet from Down Under :->