protecting your colours

walking on a winter's night
looking for the lights on the other side
in the dark you can see yourself
thin and young
a foreign elf

walking in your padded coat
bought in the supermarket
the coat is so shiny black
the quilt panels seem highlighted

black always in black
you hear people whisper
when will she go back
why can't she wear colours

but you need to feel safe

you're so vulnerable
floating like a fetus
in your warm and puffy coat
tightening the belt
your waist looks breakable

there's a frozen image
in your field of vision
to let go of it
you need to feel safe

walking on a winter's night
looking for the lights on the other side
black always in black

but this is what your black coat does for you
it's protecting your colours



Vera Kelgart  (with Lemuria crystal)  2014

weightless

your pale lavender nightdress
with a star print down front
the softest cotton jersey cooling
your arms legs the drape embracing
your body sighing fast asleep
before even knowing it

when the light is out
the star print will be one single twinkling
star above your heart
you'll be navigating by a real star
in the real sky

but first you'll bring a cup of water
to your bedside
because you'll be gone for hours
dreaming in colourful serials
laughing waking wanting a drink of water

or you'll be away empty mindful mindless
turning on your side reaching for the cup
without even knowing it
then sinking back into the lavender weightless

replenishing your strength
quietly breathing the twinkling
star into your chest
feeling warm and cool and comfortable
in the pale soft lavender sky



Vera Kelgart  (with Isis crystal 'Lotus')  2014

feathers

you only shrugged into this jacket
knit in ice-blue snow-white sacred
Arctic geometry attracted
by its diamantine quality

but the perfect fit made your world shift
you find yourself a spontaneous shamanic
seabird's counsellor
soothing stormy feathers

blowing cool air on an iceberg
warming eggs in the heart-shaped cavity
of your clairvoyant hands

stroking the eider's tousled feathers
caring for the kittiwake
restoring reassuring steering

heart to heart with the guillemot
playfully ruffling the puffin's feathers
resuscitating reuniting clearing

it's a shaman's jacket
a motherly shaman's jacket
you never knew you were
a motherly shaman till now



Vera Kelgart  (with Lemuria crystal)  2014

relying

since you were young you've always had
a milky white Aran sweater

always inhaling the natural fragrance
of wool
your face pressed against your sweater sleeve
the taste of sea milk

the knit cables braided you together
with your early close-knit circle
of loving people

and now years later you're still
relying on the spirit of the sweater
anchoring you
in your new love circle
reaching out to the world

relying on you relying
on love and sea milk
the foam of life

you're an anchor relying
on your loved ones relying
on you relying
on this chunky fragrant pattern
of love

they'll never lose you
and you'll never lose your way
you're an anchor relying
on these special braided cables
of belonging



Vera Kelgart  (with smoky elestial crystal)  2014

muscle memory

in lucid dreaming
you come walking
across the quiet floor of waves
in your floor long
turquoise sea gown

dolphins' thought patterns
translated into fat silk
rippling wavelike off one shoulder

you remember with your bare arms
dreaming dolphins deeper
in your muscle memory
remember freedom
in your lightly curled fists

looks like solitude but isn't
it's your turquoise generosity



Vera Kelgart  (with record keeper Isis crystal)  2014