5 Ben
Red Overtone Skywalker
Whenever Eros flies
There, too, are nine---
Daughters of Zeus
And Mnemosyne*
*Mnemosyne: Cultural memory in Greek mythology; also, mother of the nine Muses: Kleo; Thalia; Erato; Euterpe; Polyhymnia; Kalliope; Terpsikhore; Urania; Melpomene.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Eb
Yellow Self-Existing
Human
You hold me---
My eyes close as I
awaken
To Feelings found
again
Love---Joy---Terror
Flood my Heart
Change is on the
Wing---
From Innocent to
Woman---
Psyche’s archetypal
Journey
Hidden like a Flame
beneath the Sea.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Chuen
Blue Electric Monkey
Invade my Soul, dear One---
Transform my Heart and Mind---
Let neither Fear nor bastard Thought
Deceive or me unconscious find---
Disperse thy Self throughout my Self
Each Cell a fractal Entity
Of Quantum Grace---
Magnetic Field---
Celestial Deity.
*Polyhymnia: One of the nine Muses, goddesses of poetic
inspiration, Polyhymnia serves as the Muse of sacred song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Ik
White Lunar Dog
From Mansions
On the Moon
A second Impulse rises---
Emerging Grace
Holds Spirit’s
Breath
Duality cloaks Reality
Solid seeming – mostly Space
Where there was One
Now Two appear
Time from Timelessness begins
Fractals split Infinity
Informing Form---
Inhale---Exhale
Male---Female
One from Two is
born.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Muluc
Red
Magnetic Moon
I have stayed with you
And qualify, therefore, like Orpheus
To visit you in the Land of Death---
Your battered Defenses protect you still---
Hiding Grief and Pain unbearable
As you transform within a Cradle of Grace
I cover you as would an Angel---
With Love and sacred Wisdom
Your Wings are mere buds on your Spine---
Made supple by stretching and shivering
Like the hibernating Arctic Fox
In the winter of your Death
You reach for me, your Eskimo---
I dragged your screaming psyche
Into another Place---a warmer Space where
You might breathe again
I bear the ecstasy of Mysteries
Borne on the back of Agony---
The Price of Initiation.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
13 Lamat
Yellow Cosmic Star
Klotho*- spin your
golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my
Forehead---
Open wide my virgin
Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle/Scythe
Call forth my Poetry
to arise
Like Pegasus** from
Medusa***
Wingèd, beautiful, and
wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates or Moirae in
Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed who sprang from
the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient Lydia whom the goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Manik
Blue Crystal Hand
The winter lives
In Death’s apparent
frozen Sleep---
Dreamless Days march
one against another
Like Soldiers gone
to Battle
Each fiercer than
its Brother
Layered Depths of
Frost
Upon a lifeless Tree
Assume the Chill of
loneliness
In Nature’s vast
Decree
Of Dormancy and
cruel Duress
The Cycle of a
Season’s Rest---
The Time when all
Things lay
Beneath sweet
sugared Snow
Which knows no
Corner
Where it cannot go.
©Kleomichele Leeds
