comfortably

your summer day pale blue
denim shirt
is still in use
so soft and sweetly well-worn
as the dawn chorus

inside the cool denim
against your warm heart
you'll hold a sleeping baby
comfortably

you're Hercules
in the sky when night falls
you'll spread your denim shirt
across the wide expanse
a peaceful shield
with holes for stars



Vera Kelgart  (with crystal 'Dolphin mother')  2016

airborne

in your airborne heart
you've taken to wearing
the night sky like a fishing net
rolling between the heavens
stars sticking like a silvery catch
to the silk chiffon

but down to earth
walking in the streets in the daytime
one out of millions
you've taken to tying the night sky
as a chiffon sarong over your jeans
it's a planet earth style



Vera Kelgart  (with golden healer Herkimer)  2016

january

cradling your body
in half-sleep
you feel green leaf
after green leaf touching
your dreamy mind

you only wanted this one nightdress
white cotton with a green leaf pattern
not warm enough for january
your friends slightly shivering
at the sight

but you need to sleep
in this gentle scalloped cotton
when you wake up rested
ready for a new year
you'll offer the world a green leaf



Vera Kelgart  (with golden healer Herkimer)  2016

in the future

something spiritual but red
between crimson cranberry claret
you've been dreaming this sweater
repeatedly

in the dream you're little
but growing steadily
a wild flower on its stem
always embodied in
a new version of the sweater
red as lacquer but more like love

fat wool embroidered
with stylized free flowers
like mallow or milkwort
greetings from summer
when the snow falls

sometimes you have mittens too
lovingly provided by someone
protecting you year after year
when you were little

you miss the clear integrity
the crisp ribbed edges
someone caring for you
year after year

but you can see yourself
in the future also
spiritual physical visible
in your red sweater
giving yourself loving care
and protection

you can see yourself
in your red sweater
walking with a cheerful crowd
in the future
you know you can give yourself
loving care and protection



Vera Kelgart  (with fairy frost crystal)  2015

full circle

your silk shirt in buoyant hues
of aubergine and rose
patterned in sections with a print
of all nature's seasons

it's the shirt of creativity in depth
small seeds like incubator babes
sunny shoots like shooting stars
leaves in rows forming foliage
prickly snow dots in an empty sky
it's the shirt of creativity in height

the shirt is for wearing
on special occasions
or else it's for meditating
on life and work

in winter you love the leaves best
in summer you need to remember
dots in an empty sky

it's the shirt of the full circle
it makes you love the fabric of life
and feel at home on earth



Vera Kelgart  (with Isis crystal 'Lotus')  2015