Excerpts from Divorce Chronicles: Life Affirming Divorce Poetry

Preface
The poetry which follows was originally recorded in my journal, where the process of my divorce was chronicled. It represents the feelings of the moment, reflecting the cycles and stages of my experience. I have resisted the impulse to edit it from my present perspective, preferring to honor the immediacy of the feeling at the time, and the poems are presented in the order they were written, reflecting the ebb and flow of the process.

When I began my divorce, I looked for a book of poetry which would express what I was feeling. When I couldn’t find it, I was forced to write it myself. It was written first as an emotional catharsis and second, to memorialize the experience. As such, the material is highly subjective. It is also colored by the fact that I am a divorce lawyer myself.

If anyone connects with the emotions expressed, if it helps another person through one of the most difficult passages of life, God bless. If not, God bless, and move on to something else that does help.

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