1 Akbal
Blue Magnetic Night
Sweet Sleep
Enfold me
Travel down
And hold me
To Thy Breast---
Long Night
Approach me
Overcome
And take me
Down to
Rest---
Tall Dreams
Entrance Me---
Free the Heart
To dance in me
Lest---
Dark Fears
Besiege me---
Swallow down
And seize
The very best
Of me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Ik
White Cosmic Wind
A Phantom have I
Lived with near a
Year---
An inner Voice---
A disembodied Face
A separate Self---
Beloved yet apart---
A ghostly Lover
Occupies my Heart
His surface Charm
Hides Depths unknown---
Deadly and immortal
both---
Wild Resentment grows---
Upon him, I projected
Every Wound and Crime
From Infancy Committed
Until present Time---
I fashioned him a
Hero
That insubstantial Soul---
But when I cut him loose
I saw
The Hero’s but my Self,
made whole.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Imix
Red Crystal Dragon
Stories within me
Lie sleeping---
For safe---keeping
I suppose
Within the swelling
Moon
Dreams layered into
Time and Space awaken
The Wild One within
Recurring Patterns
rise
Interwoven Archetypes---
Paisleys of Divinity
Design a Woman’s Soul
As She quickens with
The Life Force---
So do we all.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Ahau
Yellow Spectral Sun
The bluest Bluejay cries
To Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds
Whose tiny sunlit
scarlet neon Throats
Dance
In grand extravagance---
Otherworldly,
truly---
Huge
Crows dip low
Searching
for Breakfast---screeching black
Messengers
from an unseen Underworld
Guided by the
gliding
Flying, dipping,
darting
Drumming, thrumming,
Hummingbirds---
Symbols of an
over-arching Wing---
Hints of a Time
sublime
When we too will
sing.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Cauac
Blue Planetary Storm
Dismembered like Osiris
Am I---
Parts of me scattered
O’er Land and Sea
A Lineage of gods
And goddesses
Precedes and supersedes me---
Dionysus, Orpheus---
Every sacred Queen---
Where is my Beloved?
Is he gone forever?
Is he willing to re-collect
Me Piece by Piece?
Re-member me, my beloved Twin---
Redeem me out of Chaos
Into Order---
Into Peace!
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Etznab
White Solar
Mirror
(Museum Mycenae)
Golden earrings
Bracelets---Rings
Tissue thin
Pendants---Diadems
Inlaid with Jasper---
Red Carnelian
Vases---Bowls---Cups
Sacred Vessels
vibrate
With ancient Symbols---
Shells---Spirals---wild
Goats
Great Bulls---Cuttlefish
Rosettes---Chariots
Dolphins leaping
Marble Goddesses
Fresh white Flesh---
Alabaster Arms
akimbo---
Smooth---unbowed
Although Ten
Thousand
Years they hold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Caban
Red
Galactic Earth
Flown the Arrow from the Bow---
Gone the small white Stone
Into a Strongman’s Forehead---
America sheds
Coils of Limitation, Cruelty---
War and Mayhem fade---
She rejects Repeats of History
Fascism---Corruption---Bigotry
An adolescent Nation ripens---
Evolution races like the Stone---
Shock---Torpor----and Despair lift---
Conviction defeats the Unthinkable---
Action takes a Turn and stark---
The Stone finds well its Mark
Consciousness rises with the Sun
Division and Evil die in
Washington.
©Kleomichele Leeds
