White Lunar Dog/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 11

 

2 Oc

White Lunar Dog

 

My Spirit falls---shattered by

 Barricades more solid than

Any mortared Brick could fuse---

Unwittingly I descend

Into the seventh Hell

Of lusty Phrases worn with Use

 

Divorced and desperate, I came here

 To seek my Self---observe and grow

Beyond the vapid Realm of Mediocrity---

Cradled by sweet Reason, my Soul

Reclaims itself into a Structure girded

Well against satanic Mockery

 

You caressed my Body’s Curves and Spaces---

The trembling of my Womb

Held you closely dark, and deep---

In loving you, my Spirit grew half-strong---

Giddy with Delight to reach

The Height of long-forgotten Dreams

 

But Night and you together

Blasphemed my sacred Peace---

The Wish to love became the Wish to please---

Betrayed by a shallow Light behind your Eyes

I lay shrouded in Deception---

I stumbled then but again will rise.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Red Magnetid Moon/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 10

 

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

Yellow Cosmic Star/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 9

 

13 Lamas 

 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. t

 

*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

Blue Crystal Hand/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 8

 

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

White Spectral World-Bridger/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 7

 

11 Cimi

 

White Spectral World-Bridger

 

Death surrounds me now---

I swim in the Underworld

Lower than Low---

 

Down in the Depths

Of the Darkness---

I float apart

From all I knew---

 

Nothing

Is there

In Xibalba*---

Only the Ache

In my Heart.

*Xibalba is described in the Maya sacred text, Popul Vu as a

 court below the surface of the Earth associated with the Lords

 of Xibalba, or the Lords of the Underworld.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Planetary Serpent/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 6

 

10 Chicchan

Red Planetary Serpent

 

As she melts upon my Tongue

I swallow down the full Moon whole

She settles in my Belly while

I drink the Wine of Kingdom come

 

She takes a silver Ride inside

Where Flesh had been until

The Promise of a Woman’s Life

Fell beneath a Surgeon’s Knife

 

Scalpel cut the Sinew and the Nerve

Creating added Space---

My Womb is in the Tomb

But even more is in its Place

 

My progeniy are Prose and Poetry

Conceived in the Soul by Night---

Infants unnumbered are borne

On glistening Beams of blue Light. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

7/1 Yellow Solar Seed/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 5

 

9 Kan 

Yellow Solar Seed

 

Clouds float by

In grand Procession---

Billowing, pillowing

 Wisps of white---

Stately Fortresses of Mist

Kissing a blue Sky

 

Shape-shifters all---

Turning Light to Shadow

Eclipsing  Sun, Moon, and Stars---

Silently they pass en masse

Carrying Prayers on High. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds