12/13/2019 White Spectral Wizard/ Rhyrhmic Lizard Moon of Equality, Day 1

11 Ix

White Spectral Wizard

It isn’t that we quarreled –

Or fought with sharpened Tongue and Fang

Or clawed our Way through Tunnels full of Gloom

Together

No fuming Rage or Thunder

Tore our Hearts apart

Eros, too, stood silently at bay

Peeking in on us – standing on tip-toe

Watching as we mocked Love’s glory

Imitating the sublime State

We moved simultaneously toward

And away from one another

The Possibility of US did not

Dawn in Flashes of bright Light

You spoke of Rockets, saying

“I need others as well as you –

Another instead of you.”

Inside me never you –

Only you

There are Burdens you carry

Awkwardly against your Will

Away from me you turn

Even while approaching

You balance yourself self-consciously

In order not to fall or disturb

Your precarious Equilibrium

Being January’s Child

I know the two-faced god

Of Ambivalence –

Janus is false fashioned

As you are rudely fake

You give and then abruptly take

Away

I had little time

To test the Truth 

To run the Gamut of Emotions

Bequeathed to me

As crown Jewels –

I chose the simple Stone

Of Disenchantment

I now deny false gods –

Declare that I will repair

The bruised Heart within me beating –

The Decision is mine

To make without you

Even as I have been

With you

Awareness breaks in

Waves of Consciousness –

The rhythmic Swell of Knowledge

Builds the natural Bridges of my Soul –

Only forward does my inner Eye direct

As I acquaint myself with myself again –

Without you.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/12/2019 Red Planetary Skywalker/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 28

10 Ben

 Red Planetary Skywalker

Faster than the Speed of Light

We travel Side by Side

Deeper than the Sky at Night

Love’s Arms reach in to guide

From now to then and back again

Ensconced from here to there

We fly above all doubt and Pain

Past any current Care

The newborn Moment is our Carriage

Dressed in Gold and Silver Time

Guarding well the Oath of Marriage

Floating on the Wings of Rhyme

Sails of deep Devotion direct

Our Ship of State

Trimmed to perfect Destiny

The favorite Child of Fate.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Solar Human/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 27

9 Eb

Yellow Solar  Human

Born into Ignorance

 I serve only Truth

I follow a golden Lamp

Into the Origin of Time

I am the numinous Feminine 

In a collapsing World of Men

Initiated into false Values

Fallen Wisdom – devious Love

I am Love itself –

The Life that sings

I am Eternal – Infinite

I am the Sacred in Everything.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Galactic Monkey/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 26

8 Chuen

Blue Galactic Monkey

Soul's Call

Repudiates Rest –

It is an insistent Echo –

An Unrelenting Cry

 A Disquieting Hum

Quivering

In the Heart’s deep Drum

Soul's Voice  

Declines Silence –

Until we hear

And then begin to listen

It moves us

And behooves us to move

Into the World –

 Soul's Call  

Summons Risk and Fall –

 Journeys without Distance

From Fear to Love

Soul's Voice 

 Summons Vision

Requires Variety

Ritual and Sobriety

In order to be healed 

Heeded and heard again.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/9/2019 White Resonant Dog/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 25

7 Oc

White Resonant Dog

Within my Soul

Shines a Diamond

Point of Purity

Where Love abides –

And Life sings on forever.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/8/2019 Red Rhythmic Moon/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 24

6 Muluc

Red Rhythmic Moon

Of a new Mother

Am I now born –

Re-born and born again –

Of the Triple Womb

 Of the Rhythmic Moon

Life – Death – Life –

 The Triple Goddess –

Original Trinity

Original Blessing.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Overtone Star/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 23

5 Lamat

Yellow Overtone Star

My Soul is a Fire

Hot and wild

My Soul is a River

Like the River Nile

Full of Splendor and Story

Indifferent to Propriety

She glides through the Night

 From Hippocrene* on Helicon**

My Genius –

My Pegasus***

My wingèd Flight.

*Hippocrene (Fountain of the Horse):  A spring created when Pegasus kicked Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses (goddesses of artistic expression); regarded as the living water of the soul as well as the source of poetic inspiration.

**Helicon:  A mountain in central Greece; regarded by the ancients as the abode of Apollo and the Muses.

***Pegasus:  The winged steed that sprang from the decapitated body of Medusa; symbolic of flights of creative imagination.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/6/2019 Blue Self-Existing Hand/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 22

4 Manik

Blue Self-Existing Hand

Tanka*

 Because you are now

Free to fly I shine, glisten

And glimmer like a

Clear, crystal Tear on the Tip

 Of your out-stretched feathered Wing.

*Tanka: A Japanese form of poetry comprised of five lines and 31 syllables: five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively.

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Electric World-Bridger/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 21

3 Cimi

White Electric World-Bridger

Bullies birth the Saints

Long suffering –

One Hundred and Four
 Thousand Years an Age

 Alphabet turns Hieroglyph –

And Cries of Grief to Song.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Lunar Serpent/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 20

2 Chicchan

Red Lunar Serpent

Let us move our Mourning to Thanksgiving

Giving up Despair for second Sight

That we may count ourselves among the Living

Our Vision sees through Blindness to the Light

Between us many Obstacles arise

To block our Path of Faith around the Earth

But when at last we see with Spirit’s Eyes

The poison Snake of Sadness dies at Birth

Our Gratitude and Faith forever sound

In ringing Psalms of Memory and Praise

Beyond the Walls of Sorrow we are found

Singing Hymns of Joy for all our Days.

All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle Dove

Progenitor of Fealty and Love.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/3/2019 Yellow Magnetic Seed/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day19

1 Kan

Yellow Magnetic Seed

Moving up and out –

In the here and now

Am I

Nor Shadow nor Shade

Nor Partner nor Maid

Am I

Whole and complete

Aware and replete with Wisdom

Am I

Unchained – unbowed – unwed

Free to choose – choosing Freedom

Am I

Fierce and mighty

Grateful and giving

Am I

Creating – destroying – preserving

All that comes to Matter

Am I

Daughter – Sister – Mother

 Woman – Friend

Am I

The Voice that in the End

Bridges Space between the Worlds

I Am.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Cosmic Night/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 18

13 Akbal

Blue Cosmic Night

Into high Symbol

We go

As well as low  

Initiation transforms Soul –

Life puts on meaning

Like an Alice Blue Gown

But first to the dark Night

The Underworld of War –

Wotan’s* Ecstasy

This Wave of Time/Space crests

As Cataclysm transforms

Trinity into Quaternity

Hamlet becomes Faust

Descend then to the Mothers –

Sacred Goddess’ Diadem

Earth’s Mysteries prophesy

A New Jerusalem!

*Wotan: one-eyed Teutonic god with an insatiable appetite for war and power – symbol of blind violence.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

White Crystal Wind/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 17

12 Ik

White Crystal Wind 

In and out

The Sea breathes

Herself awake

On morning Tide –

The Breeze –

A cleansing Current -

Crystalline Air –

Giving up Debris

In frothy Paroxysms

She bequeaths and leaves

Flotsam and Jetsam 

 Shells and more

Upon her polished Shore.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Spectral Dragon/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 16

11 Imix

Red Spectral Dragon

My Grief –

 I own it as I would

A Dagger plunged

Deep into my Heart

The Blade would

End my Life

If it were steel

Yet Sorrow steals

Much more than Breath

From the dancing Soul –

Psychic Wounds

Bleed boundless Tears –

 Suffering creates

A Ground of Being –

‘Til Eros comes to

Pull the Blade out clean.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Planetary Sun/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 15

10 Ahau

Yellow Planetary Sun

The disembodied Voice

So long held dear –

Communication

From afar –

Each Syllable and Word

Recalled –

Love’s Labors these

When Bodies separate

Reunion puts a Face on Love

Changes Space and Time

Adds Dimension – Touch –

More Feeling to a Phrase

 Rounding out Reality –

Turns Past and Future

Into Here and Now –

Transforming Promise

Into Vow.

                                                  

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Solar Storm/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 14

9 Cauac

Blue Solar Storm

My Heart is closed for Repairs 

Out to Lunch

Shut down

Boarded up against you

You refuse to give

Even to the starving Subway Seekers –

To me you give few Words

Weak Affection

A Pittance of Attention

Therefore I must retreat

Withdraw and free myself

From this Neglect

Until further Notice –

My Heart is closed for Repairs.

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Galactic Mirror/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 13

8 Etznab

White Galactic Mirror

Thistle blooms violet

Against Vine –

Needled Pine –

Deep blue Sea

Monarch turns bright

Orange and black –

From Chrysalis

To Vision marvelous

Vibrant Contrast –

Winged Harmony

Monarch sips scarlet –

Then lifts into Flight.

©Kleomichele Leeds

11/26/2019 Red Resonant Earth/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 12

7 Caban

Red Resonant Earth

I set down

A Ring of Fire

 The Bone

The Feather and the Cone

My Territory mark

I lay down to wait –

 Still – until

You crossed

The confines

Of my Heart

The Ring of my Wondering

The Ring of my Wandering

You braved the Limits

Of my Rage

My Childhood died –

 Fear fell as well

True Love spoke

Broken was the Spell.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Rhythmic Warrior/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 11

6 Cib

Yellow Rhythmic Warrior

I will shock you into Joy –

Enough to slough away

The routine Day

Rendering sacred each Moment

In a heartfelt Hour –

Whenever you forget

Or lose your Self

I will appear –

Exploding unexpectedly

In the Heart of your Mind –

In the Mind of your Heart

If fleeting Greed and Fear

Freeze Creation

I will shake you

To your sacred Roots

With a Thunderbolt of Truth –

Oh, dearest One –

Hear my Words

Ineffable and numinous –

Feed your Soul

With Manna irresistible

Welcome me

For I am Love

Made visible –

Your highest Hope

Revealed

Your greatest Passion fulfilled

Life in Death Am I –

The Resurrection and the Way

Oh, my Beloved

Your Heart beats

To my Rhythm –

Open to receive me

At your Heart’s Door

For I stand and knock

I shall shock you –

Rock and roll you

Into the Fire-stream

Of Destiny –

Arise!

Now is the Time!

©Kleomichele Leeds