My Poem - Water Baby
I am delighted to announce that my 'Commended' poem Water Baby was recently published in The Mother's Milk Books Writing Prize Anthology 2015. I'd like to thank judge Sarah James & editor Teika Bellamy for making it happen. Water Baby I saw you first on the scan baby swimmer, echolocation, two heartbeats, yours fast then mine. Mine skipped a beat at the quickening of you, when you flipped within me, whilst singing the songs of the deep. You came eagerly running the bow wave. I helped bring you to the surface, glistening, warm blooded, at last, your skin against mine. I watched you take your first breath a gasp, no two, yours and mine, brought you to my breast, love at first sight. Today we run into the sea together, dive in and surface laughing. You, now fully grown, our two heartbeats, in time. (C) Karen Harvey https://www.mothersmilkbooks.com/index.php/shop/product/217-the-mother-s-milk-books-writi