Reflections In A Broken Mirror

Her Silence is BROKEN. Her voice is now heard. Echoing loud, vibrant and FREE. A decade's long journey will now be told. from successfully single to married with five children in one year. Chronicling homelessness, marital affairs, grief, loss, divorce, and joy. All while learning to listen to that still small voice. Crying God where are you. Learning to find him in the murkiest of waters. These are her personal reflections.

Fiction often serves as an escape from reality but poetry acts as a tool to express it. The collection of 40 poems is a journey of healing and growth experienced from the perspective of a mother recovering from post-partum depression. The poems reflect the poet's conflict with her social role, her religious beliefs and her spiritual hunger. The poems speak of alienation, the duplicities of social media and the pressures of a superficial society. The poems bear an autobiographical element but is reflective of women at large and motherhood in focus.

'I attacked her much like those horribly dressed women on Jerry Springer, including the shoving and yelling. Although, I believe I was far better dressed and much more dignified than the people on television. At one point, I grabbed (the trollop) so forcefully I literally threw her from her shoes. It reminded me of the Wicked Witch of the East with her ruby slippers left behind.' Reflections in a Broken Mirror explores the damage of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse. While Melanie suffered from being wounded by others, she also struggled with the side effects of prescription drugs. Her personal insight and wit are sprinkled throughout the memoir.

A compilation of poems and perspectives from a life full of broken pieces.

Broken Mirror Reflections is an uplifting composition based on life and its diverse tribulations. The quotes, poems and stories within, aim to inspire and provoke reflection, enabling the reader to view the fragments that make up life in a new and refreshing light. Broken Mirror Reflections delves into with the complexities of depression, anxiety, hate, fear, love, hope, happiness and self-growth."If you learn to understand the world, you will learn to fear it less. And, in the light of that diminishing fear, you will learn to love it more.""When we cease being slaves to our wicked desires, and become their masters instead, we become committed to fulfilling our destinies."

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones." Benjamin Disraeli........."Reflections From A Broken Mirror" further pursues in short stories a long and varied life of the author as did his "Tales From The Underbrush" book seri