12 Lamat
Yellow Crystal Star
Heavy was I
With Tears unshed
And Weight of Time
Orbiting around myself –
Judging without Mercy –
Merciful without Judgment
A Monster sat
Upon my Heart
Devouring my Passion –
Then came You
With Eyes bright
As Stars
And a warm Heart
Wrapped like a Gift
From Angels and gods.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Manik
Blue Spectral Hand
Draw near to
Hear the Mystery –
Mythology --
Cosmology of Soul
In Reverie and Reverence
Replete with Obeisance –
Unearth the Labyrinthine
Ways invisible
Reject me not
Nor spurn me
Do not fear –
Draw near
Forgive my Urgency
Insurgency –
No Thing compares
To this Emergency.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Cimi
White Planetary World-Bridger
Death, surround me
now –
I swim in the
Underworld
Lower than Low –
Down to the Depths
Of Darkness I go –
Down to Xibalba* I
go
Nothing
Is there
But the Ache
In my Heart.
*Xibalba is
described in the Maya sacred text, Popol Vuh, as a court below the surface of the Earth associated with death and with twelve
gods or powerful rulers known as the Lords of Xibalba.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9
Chicchan
Red
Solar Serpent
I
mine the depths
Traveling
on instinct –
Pulling
Rubies, Diamonds
From
the Walls
Plucking
perfect Pearls
From
an oyster Shell
I
drop down
Into
Realms Chthonic
Into
Realms Plutonic –
Down
the Path
Out to See -
Beneath
the rolling
Sea
to Luz
The
City -
Many
Mansions
Of
My Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Kan
Yellow Galactic Seed
Sweet Calla –
You blossom
Like a Goddess
In the Garden
Image of the Heart –
Cream in part
And yellow too
Androgyny’s Ideal –
Your velvet Depths
Pierced by Pollen –
Bearing Stamen
Simple – sculpted
Perfect Love –
Pure enough
To adore all
Unlike yourself –
Symbol of Truth
Grace embodied –
Lily of the dreaming
Field
Marker
Of Ritual and Rite –
Regal – majestic
Blossom white.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Akbal
Blue Resonant Night
Into my Dream
Flew a yellow Bird –
A Rose upon each Wing
The Rose was pink
And I did think it odd
This Coloring
The Bird flew close
As if to speak
In Fear I shut my Eyes
Then I did feel
A tiny Beak
Fondly kiss my Cheek.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Ik
White Rhythmic Wind
Poetess
I call myself
As
Lines I rhyme
Fine
Phrases do I form –
My
Thoughts evolve
In
parcèd Time
As
Rhythms sweet are born –
If
I dare
Disclose to you
A rare or radiant Verse –
You see the Light
In darkest Night –
The lifting of a Curse.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Imix
Red Overtone Dragon
Peace slumbers
Within –
Like the Zeitgeist
Ready to be born
In this Age of Chaos
The World - Heart opens
To the Heights of Heaven
To the Depths of Hell
On the vast horizon of Time and Space
Another Golden Age appears
In Hieroglyphic Grace.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Ahau
Yellow Self-Existing
Sun
In a Plenitude of Solitude I sing –
Throngs of Bougainvillea stretch
Scarlet Arms into the Sky –-
Birdsong and Sunlight abound
Swan clouds sail
Stately and serene -–
Hummingbirds hover in Tangerine Trees
Lemons hang ponderous
Bountiful and free –
Gifts from the gods to me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Cauac
Blue Electric Storm
Tall Trees
Slake a Thirst
Of which I’m unaware
Until I’m there
In the midst
Of the Mist
Soft Blankets
Of Leaves
Mark my Way
Lush Greens vibrate –
Infinite in Hue
Remarkably blue
Is the Sky
Birds and Silence
Sing Lullabies –
Solitude my Ally
In the rendering
Of Soothing Song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Etznab
White Lunar Mirror
Tonight a Moonrise
Over the Skyline
Above Earth’s Horizon
To Heaven by Decree
Tonight a Moonrise
Her Course clear – confident
Charted and specific by Degree –
Thus I derive great Comfort
More than random – Life
More than fleeting – Joy
Sorrow – Nevermore.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Caban
Red Magnetic Earth
Like frozen Field
Or brittle bough
I melt into my Self
–
Surface Lives recede
Fall far away and
deep –
Too weak for Light or Heat
Frost murmurs underfoot
Grasses bend and break
A Shroud upon myself
I take –
Infinity curls
within
My Shell
Eros hides inside
Great granite Cliffs
reveal
Layers full with
Rhythm, Rhyme, and
Reason –
Earth’s molten
Crystal Center
Pulls the Moon
around -
Directs the Seasons
And the Treasons
Until the Sun
returns.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Cib
Yellow Cosmic Warrior
I stand
Sentinel
At Thresholds
Sanctifying God Seeds
Where Logos
meets Eros
I hold Records
holographic
Cosmic - Akashic
Volumes
of Galactic Herstory
I span Infinities -
I wander through Eternities
Exploring Mysteries
Beyond
divine Dichotomies
I am No
Thing
I am No
Body
I am Now
Here.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
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
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
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 Life itself –
The Song we sing
I am Eternal – Infinite
I am the Sacred in Everything.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Chuen
Blue Galactic Monkey
Soul's Call
Repudiates Rest --
Its Echo 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
