joy

through the prison wall of grey
you're reaching out for
your red pareo

you need it for living your life
you need it like calcium

throughout the world
you're reaching for
your healing image
yourself in your red pareo
walking in sprays of rain
carrying mangos

your history needs
a new story
the story of you
walking with abundance

through the prison wall of grey
you're reaching out for
your red pareo

you need to be living your life
you need it like calcium



Vera Kelgart  (with Isis crystal 'Avalon')  2013

dryad

you're happy when you're with trees
you understand trees better
you can be inside a tree
it's like greenness underwater

you understand life best
when you're with trees
you're like them
rising from roots
stretching to the sky
always craving the light

you feel drawn to a green dress
you've got an olive sweater
but you tell yourself to vary
express yourself freely

you'll be stronger
if you also look to the red of the mountains
you'll be stronger
if you also look to the blue of the sea
you'll be greener



Vera Kelgart  (with Isis crystal 'Avalon')  2013

content

what do you want to be
your answer used to be
don't know

the world being full
of people doing something
doing the same thing
so why should you
why would you
even try

but in school today
someone taught you
how to make a vase
a small container
sculpted with your hands
then glazed

now you know who you want to be
someone containing the world
making bowls cups chalices
vases flagons grails

making life containers
joy containers
world containers
that's what you want to do

but surely the world is already full
of people making lots of things
the same things

but then again
the world needs containers
all the time
for all kinds of things
and that's what you want to do

your work dress is white ripped cotton
but your working hands are wrapped
in a lavender blue scarf
in the evening
you zip it around you
it's your sleeping bag
for dreaming world shapes



Vera Kelgart  (with Isis crystal 'Sophia')  2013

The vital creativity

Creativity isn't just for creating something. People are surviving thanks to their creativity: will to live plus heart and imagination.
My new poems are a tribute to this talent, so essential to art and life. My intention was a kind of storytelling about the creative process. Working on this, my viewpoint somewhat changed though.
I realized that I'm more interested in identities than in processes. Hence the poems celebrating creative identity - with a matching wardrobe!

Den vitale kreativitet

Kreativitet er ikke kun evnen til at skabe "noget kreativt". Mennesker overlever katastrofer takket være deres kreativitet - en blanding af livsvilje, hjerte og fantasi.
Mine nye digte er en hyldest til dette talent, der er af så afgørende betydning i kunsten og i livet. Min intention var en slags storytelling om den kreative proces. Men synsvinklen ændrede sig lidt undervejs.
Det gik op for mig, at jeg er mere interesseret i identiteter end i processer. Altså digter jeg nu om kreativ identitet - selvfølgelig med en matchende garderobe!