Monday, August 31, 2020

Blue Crystal Eagle/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 9






12 Men

Blue Crystal Eagle

My Heart is fragile
Agile in her Musing –
Full of Adhesions
Doubt, Fears and Reasons
To withdraw

I learned to love on a Battleground
Where volatile Mines
Were set down to trip
And whip me into Conformity

I lost small Pieces of my Mind
In hell-bent Skirmishes out of the Blue
Always poised to defend myself –
I danced with the Devil on the front Lines

Resistance sent me Underground
But the Devil claimed his Due –
I laid down my Soul in Surrender
To a Power I hardly knew

I lost that Battle but won the War
Therein lay my Victory –
When I died to Death my Life was born
My Story began telling me.


©Kleomichele Leeds



























Sunday, August 30, 2020

White Spectral Wizard/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 8







10 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
A 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








Saturday, August 29, 2020

Red Planetary Skywalker/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 7






10 Ben


Red Planetary Skywalker


Faster than the Speed of Light
We travel Side by Side
Deeper than a Sky of Night
Love’s Arms reach out 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








Friday, August 28, 2020

Yellow Solar Human/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 6






9 Eb


Yellow Solar Sun



I was born into Ignorance
 But serve only Truth

I follow a golden Lamp
Into the Origins of Time

I am the numinous Feminine 
In a World of Men

Initiated into false Values
False Wisdom – Fallen Love

I am Love itself –
The Love we sing

I am Eternal – Infinite
I am the Sacred in Everything.

  
©Kleomichele Leeds




Thursday, August 27, 2020

Blue Galactic Monkey/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 5







8 Chuen

Blue Galactic Monkey

Soul's Call
Repudiates Rest
Its Echo is insistent –
An Unrelenting Cry

 A Disquieting Hum
Quivering
In the Heart’s 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 –
Compelling us to excellence

Soul's Call  
Summons Risk and Fall –
 Journeys without Distance
From Fear to Love

Soul's Voice 
 Summons Dreams and Visions
Requires Variety
Ritual and Sobriety
In order to be healed 
And heard again.


©Kleomichele Leeds









Wednesday, August 26, 2020

White Resonant Dog/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 4






7 Oc 


White Resonant Dog


Within my Soul

There shines a Diamond

Point of Purity

Where Love abides –

And Life sings on forever.
  


©Kleomichele Leeds





Monday, August 24, 2020

Red Rhythmic Moon/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 3







6 Muluc



Red Rhythmic Moon 


Of another Mother

Am I born

Re-born and born again –

Out of the triple Womb

Out of the triple Goddess

Out of a silent silver Moon.



©Kleomichele Leeds








Sunday, August 23, 2020

Yellow Overtone Star/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 2







5 Lamat


Yellow Overtone Star


My Soul is a River
Like the River Nile

Full of splendor and story
Indifferent to Propriety

My Soul is a Fire-bird
Hot and wild

He flies through the Night

 From Hippocrene* on Helicon**

My Genius –

My Pegasus***

My wingèd White.


*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










8/22/2020 Blue Self-Existing Hand/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 1





4 Manik


Blue Self-Existing Hand


The Magic of Miracles
Dissolves both Time and Space –
Proven laws
Break down and shift
Inciting wondrous Awe

Now we rise
With Love and Kindness
Into Creatures
Fourth Dimensional -
Where Miracles occur
Upon Request -
Ceaselessly – Forever.


©Kleomichele Leeds






8/21/2020 White Electric World-Bridger/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 28







3 Cimi





White Electric World-Bridger


Bullies birth the Saints
Long-suffering –

An Age in Years one hundred
And Four Thousand

Then Alphabet turns Hieroglyph –
And Cries of Grief to Song.



©Kleomichele Leeds










Friday, August 21, 2020

Red Lunar Serpent/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 27



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
Vision defeating 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
While hymns of heav’nly Joy fill all our days.

All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle Dove
Progenitor of Faith and endless Love.



©Kleomichele Leeds











Thursday, August 20, 2020

Yellow Magnetic Seed/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 26







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 – unmarried
Free to choose – choosing Freedom
Am I
Alert and fierce
Graceful 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





Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Blue Cosmic Night/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 25






13 Akbal

Blue Cosmic Night

Into high Symbol
We go
And low also

Initiation transforms Soul
Life puts on meaning
Like a golden Crown

But first to the dark Night
The Underworld of War –
Wotan’s* Ecstasy

The wave of time/space crests
As Cataclysm turns
Trinity into Quaternity
Hamlet becomes Faust

Descend then to the Mothers –
Sacred Goddess’s Diadem
Earth’s Mysteries bequeath
A New Jerusalem!


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

©Kleomichele Leeds




Tuesday, August 18, 2020

White Crystal Wind/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 24






12 Ik


White Crystal Wind


In and out

The Sea heaves

And deeply breathes

Herself awake

At morning Tide –

The Breeze

A cleansing Current

Of Limpid salty Air

Giving up Debris

In a frothy Fit

She leaves and bequeaths

Flotsam and Jetsam

Crystal Shells and more

Upon a polished Shore.

©Kleomichele Leeds



Monday, August 17, 2020

Red Spectral Dragon/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 23






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