Ayr Writers’ Club member, Damaris West, has revamped, updated, and added to her personal writing website, Damaris’ Writing.
Filled with so many published poems, snippets of her novels, self-taken photographs, it’s a fine example of how to share writing with others.
Scroll down, browse your way through, and enjoy Damaris’ versatility with themes. Her delicate nature observations begin surface-deep and end with lingering humanity. Her novels capture the struggle of relationship. And who on earth can expect to keep their peas on a fork…
Generations
We knew what was wrong with Grandma
Before we could hardly talk.
She grumbled about her pension
And lost the peas off her fork.
Soon after our parents copped it:
The scales fell from our eyes.
He was an obsolete bigot;
She told whopping white lies.
For a while we were busy with courting
Then we had kids of our own.
In no time at all we were fogies
And horribly accident-prone.
Still, my children’s children are precious:
They chuckle and sit on my knees.
But my pension’s a downright disgrace
And my fork keeps losing the peas.
If you’ve enjoyed Damaris’ Writing, please do leave a comment, a thought, under the ‘Get In Touch’ links at the top and bottom of her website page.