An explorers notebook

Having started the Artist's Tool Poems, I feel like an explorer finally beholding her magical continent. These poems, combining my interests in visualization, creativity and clothes, seem to be what I've been trying to write from the start - without knowing how to do it!
The poems are formed as visualization meditations (or 'focused reverie', to use a term from Belleruth Naparstek). The protagonists will meet and embrace their own creativity in a dreamlike state, put on, as it were, the work clothes of their inspirational universe. Maybe learning to enhance it or balance it in relation to everyday reality.
Personally, I've been meditating like this for some time, but only recently thought of it as a poetic template.

En opdagelsesrejsendes notesbog

Efter starten på Artist's Tool Poems føler jeg mig som en opdagelsesrejsende, der endelig skimter sit magiske kontinent. Disse digte, der kombinerer mine interesser for visualisering, kreativitet og tøj, synes at være de digte jeg hele tiden har forsøgt at skrive - uden at vide hvordan!
Digtene er formet som visualiserings-meditationer (eller 'focused reverie", for at bruge et udtryk fra Belleruth Naparstek). Hovedpersonerne møder og integrerer deres egen kreativitet, de ifører sig så at sige deres kreative arbejdstøj. Måske lærer de at styrke eller afbalancere deres inspirationsunivers i forhold til dagligdagens realiteter.
Jeg har selv mediteret på denne måde i et stykke tid. Men først nu er det faldet mig ind at bruge formen som en poetisk skabelon.
Efterhånden som mine ideer udvikler sig, vil jeg skrive mere om Artist's Tool Poems, men det vil blive på engelsk.

coming from nature

at dusk before sleep's blackout

you're feeling your own pulse

settling your thoughts

seeking the heart shape in your mind

letting go of tensions

imagining

you in the simplest jersey really

an apple green tank top

a long blue bell skirt

colours to be recognized universally

as coming from nature

meant to resuscitate and soothe

you can go everywhere

in your simple top and skirt

you're just people

dressed in the safe and cherished colours

of green apples and blue sky

repairing despair

awakening deep hope asleep

on the ocean floor

streaming oxytocinic pictures

as spiritual diamonds

to help the worriers of the world

pointing to baby elephants

saying eggs in the blackbird's nest

will be singing tomorrow

life is still alive

never give up

tomorrow may be better

never give up

new chance

get well

hold on

have faith

be cool

easier tomorrow

wait and see

without noticing you're slipping into sleep

in the morning you feel nourished

by the colour-coded pieces of your mind

the mumblings from your open dream hands

Vera Kelgart  (with chlorite coated crystal)  2016