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

6/30/2026 Blue Galactic Night/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 4

 

8 Akbal 

Blue Galactic Night

 

In the midnight Fire

Of Winter’s second Moon

I ascend again---again, I rise

To ask for Blessing

 

In the midnight Fire

A full Moon appears----

 Fear disappears

In a Prayer for Compassion

 

In the midnight Fire

Of the midnight Hour

My heart’s Wing

Reaches for my Beloved

 

A full Moon burns

Hot in the frozen Sky

 Stars shine without light---

Tears become

Pearls of great Price. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Resonant Wind/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 3

 

7 Ik

White Resonant Wind

I hear the Call

From an eastern Gate---

From Roses on the Vine

 

Lightning flashes Foot to Head

Settling in the Belly---

A slow Burn of wild Desire

 

I feel a Call

Lifting me from the Desert---

Out of Drought into cool Mist

 

Gone the dry Brush

Gone the burning Sun

 Cool Breezes fly through me

 

I know this Call---

I’ve heard it all before

The Locusts ate my Passion

 

From an Oasis

Fresh Water flows---

My Thirst is sated, my Hunger gone.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds