This week’s guest writer is a former student of mine. It’s lovely to read her work again. It gives me great pleasure to introduce Belinda Davidson. Here’s a little bit about her:
My name is Belinda Davidson.
I’m an English teacher living in France away from my family.
I completed a writing course a long time ago with The Writers Bureau and Esther was my tutor. I’ve always followed her blog through sickness and in health (I’m recovering from cancer) and she is a great inspiration.
When I FaceTime my grandaughter she shouts ‘Nana’s in the iPad’ and I suppose to a 3 year old – that’s where I am.
Families live apart these days and without technology contact would be very difficult.
So I wrote this poem for her.
Belinda writes the blog Laplumedebelinda about French life.
Now for her moving poem:
For Grandchildren Everywhere
My Nana’s in the iPad
I love her very much
I see her every week
We speak but never touch
My Nana’s in the iPad
I long to see her so
She lives so very far away
And I’m too young to go
My Nana’s in the iPad
She always send me gifts
I know she wants a cuddle
And her mood it never shifts
My Nana’s in the iPad
Oh come and see me please
I need to smell your Number 5
And shop and climb in trees
My Nana’s in the iPad
I hope I’ll see her soon
I want to sing and dance with her
And be in the same room
My Nana’s in the iPad
I love her very much
I see her every week
We speak but never touch.
Dedicated to my beautiful granddaughter Remy
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If you’d like to be included in my guest writer slot, please get in touch: estherchilton@gmail.com. Poems can be up to 60 lines and prose 2000 words. If you’d like to add a short bio and photo, then great.
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