Smart Water-Bottle Prayer Let clouds inspire me once again as I slump here, empty and tangled in kelp. Make me raindrop pure. Lift me out of this seaweed sump, this toxic syrup where jellyfish spread nets and no-one lays down a beach towel. May clean hands re-energise me. Deliver me from wrack of reef and rock and reek of fishbone tide. Lead me not into whale belly, raw crack or wince of saline sting. Unfurl a banner over me, string balloons to wave and sing airs, spangle me in gold sand dollars. Replenish, re-use, re-muse me.
Helen Freeman started writing poetry whilst recovering from an accident in Oman and got hooked. She now lives in Durham, England and has poems published on sites like Visual Verse, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Clear Poetry, Ground Poetry, Open Mouse, Algebra of Owls, Red River Review, Barren Magazine, The Drabble, Sukoon, Poems for Ephesians and Ekphrastic Review. Instagram @chemchemi.hf
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