midnight

you can't lose your teen simplicity
your plain knit cotton sweater
its colour the scent of violets
and ink blue midnight

rows and rows of childhood days
sleeves reaching for all things glittering
growing longer for the stars
in the deep blue sky of midnight

the cool warm feel of your collarbone
free in the scooped bateau
sailing on the deep dark ink blue
sea of midnight

your plain knit cotton sweater
you're slipping it over your head
smoothing your arms
in the deep blue ink of midnight



Vera Kelgart  (with self-healed Lemuria crystal)  2015

Clothes on the outside and the inside

Since the autumn of 2014 I've been working on a new type of poems, 'clothes imagery'. There are, of course, lots of clothes in my earlier poems. But the starting point of a 'clothes imagery' poem is clothes. Often physical, my own or other people's clothes, or something seen in a shop, a book or on the web.
The poem 'Brave heart', for instance, was inspired by a photo of a knit top, created by Danish knit artist Iben Høj.
Swedish designer Gudrun Sjöden is a great inspiration with her colourful global style mix. I'm wearing the clothes and writing about them!

But my poetry clothes will just as well be fantasy clothes, or hybrids of fantasy and reality. In any case, the clothes will express an identity or form of energy.
The new poems may not differ much from the earlier ones. But hopefully my visualizing skills will improve ...

Ydre og indre tøj

Siden efteråret 2014 har jeg arbejdet med en ny type digte jeg kalder "clothes imagery". Der er selvfølgelig masser af tøj i mine tidligere digte, men de nye tager direkte udgangspunkt i tøj. Det kan være fysisk tøj, mit eget eller andres. Tøj set i en butik, i en bog eller på nettet.
Fx er digtet "Brave heart" inspireret af et foto af en top, designet af strikkunstneren Iben Høj.
Og den svenske designer Gudrun Sjöden har inspireret flere digte med sit farverige, globale stilmix.

Men poesitøjet kan også være fantasitøj, eller hybrider mellem fantasi og virkelighed. Uanset hvad, udtrykker tøjet en identitet eller særlig energi.
De nye digte virker måske ikke umiddelbart anderledes end de tidligere. Men med tiden håber jeg at kunne visualisere dybere.

brave heart

you're a knight in dreams
reaching for the sky
blue loose knit
butterfly touching down

ethereal
chain mail
for your brave heart

the real substance
of this butterfly wings top
is the air between the threads
like the pause between your thoughts

perfection
protecting
your brave heart

you're a knight unique
universal
unusual
wearing your dreams on the outside



Vera Kelgart  (with etched crystal)  2015

boundless

your cool cotton batiste top
blackest sleeveless indigo
so cherished
your still and sparkling summer breath
underneath the neckline
of embroidered night

your red cotton crinkle skirt
sweet as candy
a giant poppy
breathing summer health
you twist it after wash
to regain the petal crepe

your silver bracelet
engraved with a sinuous waveform
you found it in a dream
singing boundless



Vera Kelgart  (with sheet crystal)  2015