belonging

sighing you're sinking into

the softness of your mind

closing your eyes lightly

keeping the light on

expanding your heart surrounding

life

imagining

you in your usual jeans

but instead of your t-shirt suddenly wearing

this coveted twill shirt the colour of sandshell

alighting on you like pixels assembling

to a people's feel-good shirt

brand new but washed inconspicuously

making you one of the crowd

drawing you near to humanity

an observer's work shirt

hungry for belonging

you're stalking them like a peaceful cougar

listening in

sensing the beat of their dreams

in the heat of their skin

milling about with the crowd

sampling scenarios but still as a statue

with wings when you're filled

with filmic impressions

digesting

soundtracks subtexts

a prince enchanted asleep

your solid twill shirt dissolving

pearly

ethereal

you'll wake up when words start singing

Vera Kelgart  (with self-healed Lemuria crystal)  2016

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

thesaurus

slowing down

you reset yourself

opening your mind's eye

calmly breathing

encircling your body heartwise

imagining

you in a blue linen suit

slightly creased in the sumptuous way

of linen twill

jacket with lapels elegantly notched

big buttons mother-of-pearl

pants with natural linen sheen

woven rainbow around your waist

like a martial art belt

but words are your martial art

you're building a body of language

absorbing words like nutrients

into your muscles

strong standing tall alert

you're taking a stance yet relaxing

into that stance

of a world builder with words

connecting deep down

through ancient gold tiles

to your mothers and fathers

never chained to them but linking to them

your tribe

standing tall on earth feet

with passionate wordwise strength

embodying your body of language

with real power dressing

flax flower blue against cultural

gold tiles sky blue bricks

this is your stance

you're a live thesaurus

lifebuilding words with strong hands

spurting freshwater words from the fountain

of your archives

words are ways

you're always pointing in life's direction

future-proofing synonyms

empowering your people

humanity

after these training sessions

you'll want small talk

toned-down togetherness

Vera Kelgart  (with smoky elestial crystal)  2016