This Loss: Poetry 1995-2012

By Maureen Brumby

Maureen Brumby was born in Birmingham, England in 1965. She began writing poetry in 1981 with her first piece Smoky Zones. She was employed as a secretary until 1992 when she married her husband Neil, their only daughter, Susannah being born later that year.

This Loss was conceived during a heartbreaking year of separation from the writers husband in 1995. Maureen continued to write and evolve as a woman and a poet through personal illness, recovery and remarkable transformation. Additionally today, she enjoys a career as an Integrative Counsellor.

This breathtaking first collection of exquisite conversational poetry is presented alongside magical imagery and it is written in a style and tone that is stunningly unique.

Maureens first poem in this debut collection, entitled This Loss, was written following the death of her mother to cancer in 2005. The event catapulted Maureen into her lifetime ambition; to write and to be read.

This Loss has sharing, bittersweet sorrow and humbling fulfilment. It is the poets own repertoire of transitory feelings and uttermost devotion to loved ones and to the poetic sharing of a life lived with extraordinary resilience.

For young and old, these words are contemplative and moving. They are something heavenly of our times and something precious to own forever ....

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477227176

Maureen Brumby

Maureen Brumby, has been writing poetry since she was 16 years old. The book is a compilation of ten years of her life and was inspired by the death of her mother. She’s currently a counselor and lives in Cheshire with her husband and daughter.

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Published by AuthorHouse 09/12/2012

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Contents

Dedications

Foreword

This Loss

This Chronic Pain Called Depression

Hold My Hand

Seasons’ Mysteries

The Listener

Prayer For Forgiveness

Anguish

Ghosts of Me

Brave Escape

Twelve Songs of Autumn

The Looking Glass

Conclusions

So Tired

The Roots of All My Days

Beginning

Grace Fields

Crisisline

My Mary

This Thing Called Madness

The Taste of Bitter Sweetness

The Unicorn

The Tree

Temporary Mary

The Transition

Something

An Hour’s Rest

What’s In A Cup

The Angel in the Picture

Stay In Touch

The Decision

Playing With Me

Hurting In Love

A Bad Day

Message of Hope

For Christine

Losing You

Growing Older

No Two Minds

Christine

A Mothers Prayer

I Came To Say Goodbye

Reasons for Calling

Apologies

The Raindrop

Hello Winter

After Therapy Today

Your Girl

Breakfast

Shadow Queen

Unpleasantries

The Transitíon Stone

The Listener

Until We Reach Gods Heaven

Breathe My Life For Me

Then And Now

My Mothers Bed

Dedications

For Susannah Ellen, our daughter, our blessing and our joy.

To Lauren, our neice, for always being incredible and inspiring.

To Neil, my husband, for being my true love, always constant and devoted

Foreword

Maureen Brumby has been writing poetry for more than 30 years. She lives in Cheshire, England with her husband, daughter and two dogs.

Maureen’s beautiful writing carries within it themes we all know from aeross the lifespan. Her chosen images correspond with the profound depth of mood and tone within the pieces. Whilst some instances include reflective prayer the overall blend of conversational poetry is mixed with elegance and impeccable beauty. Each piece is inspired by the experience of life, memories and thoughts.

This is Maureen’s debut collection of "poetry’. Truly, there is something

for every thoughtful reader! Embrace and enjoy these sublime words which carry with

them a heartbeat for all eternity...

"Escape to a special space to engage with these words

and experience another place in time"

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This Loss

And I wonder how this came to be

That I might ever lose you, and still,

Awake at night I see you dancing in my mind,

Hear your whispers in the