13 Chuen
Blue Cosmic
Monkey
Into the wild Sea
I dive –
Into the wild Wave
One with the open
Sky
Am I
One with the open
Wing
Into the Forest
green
I wander
Into a mountain
Spring
I am One with these
Sea – Sky and Wood -
Fierce and free like
these am I
The Rhythm of Nature
Life – Death – Life
Is replicate in me
For I am this
Dancing Magic –
Calling forth the Soul in Thee.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Oc
White Crystal Dog
Beyond the Saints and Sages
Above Fear and Philosophy
Past Word and Symbol
Through burning Rages –
Melancholy Stages
Resolving into Pages
Whereupon I pour my Soul
My Heart beats
In the Sacred Alembic –
Transforming into an Alchemy
Where only Love can be.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Muluc
Red Spectral Moon
Red Moon –
Gibbous Globe
Dissolving into Bliss
Pure universal
Water planetary
Evolving into Unity
Earth’s incandescent Sister –
Great silver Crown of Night
Wide flowing gown of Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Lamat
Yellow Planetary
Star
If Time is Art
Then Sun – Thou art
Perfection’s Star
Shining Elegance
Light’s Author
Wisdom’s Anchor
Beauty manifest
Spirit’s descent
Into Matter
Animating Plants and
Planets
Above – Below – Right
– Left – Front -- Back
Center.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Manik
Blue Solar Hand
Be brave – sense
me – know me
For I am the
Bones of Life
Forming Links -
Connecting Parts
I drink your
Tears
And from them
make
New Flesh -
firm and warm
From this I
re-create my Form
I use your
Heart -
Its
pounding, thrumming Drum
To paint the
Colors of Life
To dance and
sing my Songs
Life - Death
- Life am I
Eternal turn
and Re-turn
I am the
Drama of Destiny
Your healing
lies within Me.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
8 Cimi
White Galactic World-Bridger
Grandmother Spider weaves
While Space/Time waits
Preparing for re-birth –
Soul spins a Body
Descending then to Earth
Held by Threads invisible
Silver – obscure - delicate –
Woven on the Loom Maya –
Sacred Patterns undetectable –
Holding Codes of Origin
Binding us to Fate.
©Kleomichele Leeds
*Tzolk’in: Sacred Mayan
Calendar -- Pieces of the Sun/Count of Days, the Tzolk’in is a sacred radio-genetic
resonant transformer reflecting the creation codes of the Cosmos in 260 units
containing all possible permutations of 13 Tones and 20 Hieroglyphs.
7 Chicchan
Red Resonant Serpent
My precious friend, regard me not
askance
Though I deserve your gaze most
skeptical
I cannot fault you for your wary
glance
For of myself I make pure spectacle
It is to tears my words one could
compare
Both flow in uncontrollable remorse
In composition they so poorly fare
To express passion from its deepest
source
These words survive though tears do
disappear
Poetry at least puts form on feeling
But I do risk your mockery and fear
Trying to convince you of my meaning
Emotion when translated to refrain
Loses too much, but gambles more to gain.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Kan
Yellow Rhythmic Seed
Into the Light she moves
From Darkness - from Chaos
Carried on a Flute and Drum
Her Fire transforms Water
Into Earth and Air
Music builds the Waves
Upon a Sea of Sound –
Dancer in the Mist –
Cymbals sing - Sequins flash
On quivering Feathers and Flesh
Joy floats upon her Smile
She lifts the Rhythm
From Hip to Hands
So full of Grace the Heart aches
In its serpentine Race to Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Akbal
Blue Overtone Night
What is Magic
But empowered
Dreaming?
Strength to draw
Radiant Images
From Psyche’s Depths
Symbols flash –
Numinous Fish
Spinning in a dark Sea
Enough to feed
All starving Souls
Cast your Line -
Wait for Symbol
Catch the Silver
Keep the Gold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Ik
White Self-Existing Wind
Psyche’s Song*
I lit the Lamp of Insight
I saw the God in you
A Spark – a sparkling Star
Beneath your hooded Eye –
In Fear you spread your Wings
To fly afar –
Now I wonder and I wander
In Anguish and Despair –
Each Breath a mournful Cry –
Are you gone forever?
Will you really let me die?
Or will you save me, Love,
From my riven Soul
And the existential Lie?
*Eros, the god of love, deserts Psyche, his lover when she looks upon
him in the night. She has been forbidden to do so. Therefore, he flies back to
his mother, Aphrodite, goddess of love. Psyche and Eros symbolize the inner
feminine and masculine aspects of soul and consciousness which must be
reconciled before psychological wholeness is achieved.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Imix
Red Electric Dragon
Twilight reveals
An amber new Moon –
Pale Cuticle -
Crescent Scythe
Low on the Horizon
Astonishing
Ethereal silver Bow
First Feminine Principle –
Innocent Glow
She sings the Endings of
Things as they are
She sings of Beginnings
Cycles, Successions –
Inspiring Initiation into
World-Soul Transformation.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
2 Ahau
Yellow Lunar Sun
Prior to Sight comes Sound
Hoof Beats like Heart-beats on
Blacktop –
Horse and Rider bound
For Work or Home
Seeking Sustenance as the Sun
Reaches Zenith – sere and severe
Clip-clop/ clip-clop / clip-clop –
A Brown sorrel Mare moves into View
With a side-saddled Shepherd
shouting, “Yasu!”
“Yasu!
Î ÏŽÏ‚
είσαι?” I respond –
He tips his Hat to me
Finally, bringing up the Rear
In this Ionian Cavalcade
A creamy Labrador Retriever
Panting in Anticipation and Thirst
She knows that in the final Reckoning
–
The Last shall be the First.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Cauac
Blue Magnetic Storm
We sail –
Along shallow Streams of Obscurity
Into a wide River of Mediocrity
Across tempestuous Seas of Humanity
Through black Storms of Loneliness
Until the distant Shores of Bliss –
Find us.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Etznab
White Cosmic Mirror
Degradation of the Human Race
Has reached its full
Completion
In all of Nature’s
vast Display –
Variety and Beauty indescribable –
There is one Face
extraordinary –
Innocence made
visible
I sing of the
northern Infants
Slaughtered for
their Fur –
Such a Prize – such
a bloody Boon
For the Hunter
These Babes are easy
Prey
Too young to swim
away –
Heads shattered –
skinned alive
Left to die in Agony
In front of their
Mothers
Enormous dark Eyes
mirror
Man’s Inhumanity –
Cruelty – Insanity
Lifeless, skinless
babies’ Bodies
Thrown away to rot
Upon the Snow and
Ice
Now stained with Blood
and Gore
No More!
No More!
The Harp Seal –
Striking Beauty
In a barren Wilderness
Struck down - bludgeoned
to Death
For a Wallet or Coat
Beware! All who
participate
Beware! All who fail
to protest
The Slaughter of
Innocents
Goes not unpunished.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Caban
Red Crystal Earth
After its long Descent
Into Space/Time
Into Third Dimension –
The Soul sleeps
Encased in the Body
Set upon the Earth –
While Soul slumbers
Fear reigns supreme
Spirit’s Mission
Here on Earth?
The awakened Soul
Healed and whole
Like Dionysus we
Are twice-born
First to Body
Then to Soul
First into Cronos’
Linear Time –
Pierced by Kairos’
Vertical Time
Consciousness rises
From Coffin and Cross
Proclaiming Resurrection
The Truth and the Way
In this sacred Union
Spirit joins Soul –
Love and Joy accomplished
Fear forever gone.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Cib
Always have I been
A singular Woman in a World of Men
The Heroine summoned –
The Rebel Soul grows
Within the Heart
My Soul is twain
Weakling meets Warrior --
Conflict rises daily with the Sun
If Origin is Answer
Then into the Conflict run
Run toward the Light of the Son
Into the living Fire
Into the shining Sea
Into the widening Gyre
Transcend all Opposites –
Kshatriya and Brahmin grow
Into the Angels above –
Into the Angels below.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Men
Blue Planetary Eagle
I hold the Soul
Of a ruby Moon –
Planetary Eagle am I
In harmonic Blue
The red Moon of Prophecy
Purity – Fluidity
Elixir rare –
Wine divine
Transubstantiation’s Moon
Planetary Planet of Initiation –
Dimensional Ages Shift
From Three to Four and Five
The Love of the Christos
Flows this Time –
Anointing, Transmuting
Evolving through
The Revolving Door
Of Hunab K’u
One Maker of Movement and Measure.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Ix
White
Solar Wizard
Down fell the Moon
To the East through the Mist –
A gibbous Half-Moon
Silver Cup glowing
My Heart awakened
Like a blossoming Rose
Luminescent – Transcendent
A bright Fire burning
Under Moon’s closing Eye
In Love I fell –
The Soul’s Enchantment
High Heaven – deep Hell.
©Kleomichele Leeds
