1 Chicchan
Red Magnetic Serpent
Blue Castle of Burning
Turns on a transform Star –
Life Force doubles
In the Court of Magic
Our Purpose –
Remembrance and
Elegance of Form
Red
Serpent Magnetic
Weaves Moons thirteen
Into Space/Time’s
Galactic Fabric.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Kan
Yellow
Cosmic Seed
Awash in a Sea of Mystery
I wait for Thee
Thou art with me always –
Yet I yearn for Thee unceasingly
Aflame in a Sea of Fire
My Soul knows the underground Gold
Stripped naked each Night
I swim and burn in a Sea of Light
I am visited by a god –
I ache with Infusions of the Vine
How will I endure until
The Water turns to Wine?
©Kleomichele Leeds
Ask me to stem the great Ocean’s Tide
Ask me to halt the
Moon’s silver Ride
Ask me to bless the Blind
with clear Sight
Ask me to banish all
Darkness from Night
Ask me to heal the
Wounds of the World
Ask me to find the
Oyster’s sweet Pearl
Ask me to live
without Water or Air
Ask me to cut off my
Breath or my Hair
But ask me not ever
to cease loving you
For that is the one thing
I never could do.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Ik
White Spectral Wind
When excess
dissolves from feverish day
And minutes
disappear in metaphor
Then alabaster bones
alone do stay
Supporting one
activity – no more
Necessities
expendable become
I meditate entirely
on Thee
No other function takes
me from my home
Not hunger, commerce,
or philosophy --
Contemplation truly
undertaken
Sustains the mind,
the body, and the soul
Bliss pervades, and
ecstasies awaken
All else is rendered
dross when Thou art goal
If naught but
thought of Thee is my desire
Then neither death
nor life can quench the fire.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Imix
Red Planetary Dragon
Shimmering
New Moon
Golden Cuticle
Poised beneath
The evening Star
A Shadow ‘round
Your crescent Horn
Belies your Maiden
State
Transfiguration signified –
Re-birth reborn through
the eastern Gate.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Ahau
Yellow
Solar Sun
Galileo
of the Night Sky
I
sing this Verse for you--
‘Round
your Head, a Halo’s made –-
The glowing Nimbus of the Moon
In the
Palm of your Hand
You hold
the Sun
When her
diurnal Orbit
Of Earth
is done--
Galaxies
and Stars
Are Home
to you
For you
alone do hear
The
clarion Call of Truth
Copernicus
and you
Move
Heaven and Earth
To lift
the stubborn Minds of Men--
Mistaken
in their Dearth of
Knowledge,
erroneous
Views
and egocentric Thought
Raucous
Argument and
Persecution
come to Naught
For
Righteousness with you abides –
Your
sidereal Kingdom is bona fide!
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Cauac
Blue Galactic Storm
And so it was…
That Babel’s Tower
Fell to Neglect
Separating Man
From Woman –
Man from Man
And now it is…
That Babble falls away --
Chaos recedes
Being takes Form
Time takes Time
Out of Mind
Into Soul
Where it turns
To Geometry Sacred --
Re-membering
Scattered Shards
Of Humanity –
Re-Pairing
Lost Parts --
I rejoice as
Spirals sing –
Swinging the Cosmos
Around in Sound –
Perfect Harmony
Evolves in Fifths –
Pythagoras knew this!
© Kleomichele Leeds
7 Etznab
White Resonant
Mirror
Rave Song
Pale Streaks amble up an eastern Sky
Ethereal pink – ochre – violet
Dawn arrives –
Irrevocable Proof that Revelry
May postpone Reality
And sometimes Time
We dance the Moon up to her Prime
From a dry Lake Bed – itself a
Moonscape
We feel Her move within
The Music and the soft blue Night
We ride the Constellations
Traveling on Adrenalin and Starlight
We sing to the Moon as she
Fades into a wan Reflection of
Midnight’s diamond Glory –
Our Drumbeats echo
Earth’s beating Heart
We came to celebrate –
Retrieve and consecrate
Our resonant Connection
To universal Fate
Moon hangs low and westerly
When finally we leave –
The Day begins, but we are finished.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Caban
Red
Rhythmic Earth
Golden Bee
On Spruce and Pine
Pulling Nectar
Drinking Wine--
Ivy
twines ‘round
Berry
Bush
Black-eyed
Susans
Never
rush
Pebble,
Shell, and Wood
Drift
in from Sea
Decorating
Sand
In
random Jocularity—
Waves
whisper and fall
In
fine-tuned Rhythms –
Earth’s
constant Call
To
her pale Sister Moon.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
5 Cib
Yellow Overtone
Warrior
Alchemical Silvering
Out of Black
Into Blue –
Nigredo to Indigo --
Indigo Blue –
Coalescent Radiance
Death into Life –
Mind purified –
Light-filled
Field unified
All healed.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Men
Blue Self-Existing
Eagle
Blue Eagle, do you hear the call
Singing through the Oak and Pine –
Whispering Tendrils on the Vine?
My Voice – a faint Murmur in the
Night
Kissing you softly awake
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Song
Floating on a misty Mountainside
Rushing down a narrow Waterfall
Up the lazy River of your Spine
Like a lovely Lotus Blossom?
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Sound
Crowning and surrounding you
Sighing for your Soul
To learn its Language?
Blue Eagle, do you hear the Drum
Signaling the Rhythm of your Days
As you become the Master of your
Fate?
Blue Eagle, mark the Measure of your
Glory
Embrace the Grandeur of your Story —
Now!
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Ix
White Electric
Wizard
In Dreams
She appears –
When the Veil
Is most transparent
Vesica Pisces*
Sacred Vessel --
Hoop of two Moons
Meeting Face to Face
Sacred Portal is She
Out of Duality into Reality
Into Unity –
The Absolute
Clan Initiate
Am I now
Given the Mission
For which I’ve prayed
Mystae and Woman Wise
Full of Poetry and Motion
Pregnant with a Zeitgeist –
Mediatrix of a Vision.
*Sacred Geometry: a pointed oval
shape resulting from the intersection of two circles. Used in medieval art and
sculpture, especially to enclose a figure of Jesus Christ or the Madonna.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Ben
Red Lunar Skywalker
I am a Poet
In a soul-less Age –
Relentless Rage
Intolerable Image
Rise to dim the Eyes
Of would-be Heroes –
I am a Poet
In a loveless Age –
Out of Time and Place –
Where manufactured Media flows
From Factories of Mediocrity
We Assemble
Like Beasts at the Trough
Sensing imminent Slaughter –
Who can hear
A Poet’s Voice amid the Din?
Who will listen –
Who comprehend
The Depth of our Descent
So close and soon upon us?
The green, fecund Earth
Unspeakably dear
Howls in Desperation –
Wounded beyond Recognition
We are falling
Off the Horizon again –
Sailing over the Edge
On Ships of Ignorance and Fear.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Eb
Yellow Magnetic
Human
In each of us, a Beauty and a Beast
In each a Light and Darkness of the
Heart
In each a Famine and a Holy Feast
In each the Whole of which we are a
Part
In every Mind, both human and divine
In everyone two Voices of the Soul
In every Fruit, hard Seed and honeyed Wine
Within each Particle resides the
Whole
In all that’s Uniform – Diversity
In all Duality, does Union hide
In all complexity lives Simplicity
In all who fear are Faith and Love
denied
Though
Maya’s subtle Veil hides all that’s True
With conscious Sight, the single Eye peers
through.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
White Crystal Dog
Through burning Rages –
Melancholy Stages
Resolving into Pages
Whereupon I pour my Soul
Beyond all Saints and Sages
Above Fear and Philosophy
Past Word and Image
My Heart beats
In a sacred Alembic –
Transforming into an Alchemy
Where only Love can be.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Muluc
Red Spectral Moon
Red Moon –
Gibbous Globe
Dissolving into Paradise
Pure Universal Water—
Planetary
Bliss
Evolving into Unity
Earth’s incandescent Sister –
Great Crown of Night
Wide-flowing Gown of Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 – intuit me – know of me
For I am the
Bones of Life
Forming the
Links -
Connecting the
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
