territory

in your wool wrap sweater
greyish blue as your native sea
you're at home

grey daylight waves
loud gulls' calls
you're at home

you have no time for fair weather
you need your territory
pulling your foam white cuffs
over your wrists in the storm

competent resilient
all you need is your territory
petrol blue grey alpaca
softly worn
and you'll be forever hardy
forever young

your wool wrap sweater
you mostly wear it open
great wings softly taking off
exposing your heart to the storm



Vera Kelgart  (with chlorite-included crystal)  2015

singers

here you are
part of a choir
wearing a sheer chiffon dress
or maybe it's light
chiffon-like clinging

not indigo
but from the deep space
between violet and indigo

dolphin is the name of this lost hue

some in the choir have dresses
in spectral hues
some in lost like sphinx
truth lifestream hope

sisters singers harmonizing
each of you pitch-perfect
in your own place

forming natural light together
walking up your tonal stairs
to the stars



Vera Kelgart  (with smoky elestial crystal)  2015

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