TheBrightPearl

I knew I shouldn’t have started on the Tequilla. I lay spread-eagled across my bed, head pressed against the wall. The pressure was...

A late start today, I woke up with a really bad headache, so medicated myself and went back and lay down on the bed for a while. With the...

Winter’s coming. We have a nice clear day for the last day of autumn I looking out and through the bare branches on the trees seeing...

124 was spiteful. The spite like bile, a secretion passed from inmate to inmate changing humours into aggression and depression equally....

A still grey day,outside the quiet permeates everything. Inside I am listening and joining in Mantra chanting with Deva Premal Mantras...

A grey and rainy Sunday morning in the last month of Autumn. I look out my windows and visibility is very limited. To combat all the...

A slow start this morning I woke to the sound of rain. Autumn showers, grey sky still holding in the warmth, sun peeking through slanted...

There once was a cat named Serida Who wanted her human to feed her In her twist and turn tactic She performed feline magic Until her...

My earliest childhood memory is painted in my mind in sepia. I am sure this is because of the photos of the house I have seen over the...

My heart hurt, it felt like a decaying leaf in Autumn; dried and discoloured, fallen to the ground and trampled beneath indifference and...

It was immense, the World Tree. It had a presence that overshadowed its surroundings. It called to me; ever since I was young I heard its...

I entered the antique clothing store and saw the dress hanging in the window. White, halter neck and full skirt as I watched the full...

Dear Helen, You watch the world around you, not fitting in to the teenage angst, not getting the endless emotional upheavals, not feeling...

Hibernation dreams As wet, heavy heat presses Winter slowly wakes 29/2/2020

Behind closed eyes Colours dance With sparkling stars Silver whirlpools spin The mind’s eye stares back Entranced with inner vision Of...

As 2019 comes to a close and we enter a new decade I decided to start the year creatively. I sat down at the computer and opened a...

Creation and destruction are the pillars that hold up our world. We each have these seeds within us to create and to destroy. These...

Five, four, three, two, one, exactly on time the telephone rang. I picked it up. “Hello, Elaine” a bright and chirpy voice sung. “Hello...

I watched the screen as the news anchors excitedly reported the news. “In front of admiring viewers and state of the art security cameras...

I stood at the viewing room window at the morgue staring into the empty room. The door into the viewing room opened and two orderlies...