White Planetary
World-Bridger
I sense the footfall of gentle Death
Dancing with Light and Peace –
Waiting upon Welcome
By nature, She is kind and shy –
Visiting us but once
In our Lives.
Sweet Sleep – our Redeemer and Reward
We avoid and greet with protest –
Why mourn?
Cry instead an honest Tear
For terrible Loss and Fear
Let us praise and honor Death –
She the Vessel and sacred Ark
For our Escape from Nowhere
Into the Absolute Now Here.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Red
Solar Serpent
I
mine the Depths
Traveling
on Instinct –
Pulling
Rubies, Diamonds
From
the Walls --
Plucking
perfect Pearls
From
the Oyster’s Shell –
I
drop
Into
Realms chthonic –
Into
Realms Plutonic
Underneath
the Sea
To
Luz – the Goal –
My
Home of
Many
Mansions –
My Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Kan
Yellow Galactic Seed
Sweet Calla –
Like a Goddess
In the Garden
Image of the Heart –
Cream in part
And golden, too
Androgyny’s Ideal –
Your velvet Depths
Pierced by Pollen –
Bearing Stamen
Symbol of Truth
Grace embodied –
Flower of the dreaming Fields
Marker
Of Ritual and Rite –
Regal – majestic
Lily-white.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 came close
As if to speak
In Awe I shut my Eyes
Then I did feel
Upon my cheek
A tiny Kiss –
A precious Prize.
©Kleomichele Leeds
White Rhythmic Wind
Poetess
I call myself –
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
Within me
Moves Peace
Like a Zeitgeist
Ready to be born
In this Age of Chaos
The World - Heart opens
To the Height 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 to the desert Sky –
Birdsong and Sunlight abound
Clouds sail by
Stately, serene –
Hummingbirds hover in Tangerine Trees
Lemons hang ponderous –
Bountiful and free –
Gifts from the Goddesses to me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue
Electric Storm
Tall Trees
Slake a Thirst
Of which I’m unaware
Until I’m there
In the midst
Of the Mist –
A Blanket of Leaves
Marks my way --
Lush Greens vibrate
Infinite
in Hue –
Remarkably blue
Is the Sky --
Quietude and Solitude
My Allies strong
In the rendering
Of Soothing Song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Etznab
White Lunar Mirror
To Heaven by Degree
Tonight’s Moon rises
Over the Skyline
Above Earth’s Horizon
By Nature’s Decree
Tonight’s Moon rises --
Her Course clear and sure
Charted - specific
From this, I take Comfort
More than random – Life
More than fleeting – Joy
Sorrow – Nevermore.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Red Magnetic Earth
Like frozen Field
Or brittle Leaf --
I fold into my Self –-
Surface Life recedes
Falls far away and deep –
Sparks fly faint and blue
Too weak for Light or Heat
Frost rustles underfoot
Grasses bend and break --
A Shroud upon myself I take –
Infinity curls within
My Shell –
Eros hides
Inside
Great granite Cliffs
Belie a Planet full of Life –
Her Crystal Core
Pulls the Moon around --
Directs the Season
And the Treason
Until the Sun returns.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Cib
Yellow Cosmic
Warrior
I stand
Sentinel
At Thresholds
Sanctifying God-Seeds
Where World
meets Word
I hold Records
holographic
Cosmic
and Akashic –
Volumes
of History galactic
Infinities
I span
Eternities
I wander
Mysteries I explore
Beyond
divine Dichotomy
I am No
Thing
I am Now
Here
I live in
the Mythos –
Homeland of the Muse.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
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 apart our
Hearts
Eros 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 against each other
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.”
There are Burdens
you carry
Awkwardly against
your Will
Away from me, you
turn
Even while
approaching –
You balance
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 a 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 dawns with
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
Red Planetary Skywalker
Faster than the Speed of Light
We travel Side by Side
Deeper than the Sky of 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 all concerns or 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
Born into Ignorance
I serve only Truth
I follow a golden Lamp
Into the Origins 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 all things.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue Galactic Monkey
Soul's Call
Repudiates Rest –
It sounds insistent
Echoes –
An Unrelenting Cry
--
A Disquieting Hum
Quivering
In the deep 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 –
Soul's Call
Summons Risk
and Fall –
Journeys
without Distance
From Fear into Love
Soul's Voice
Summons Vision --
Requires Variety
Ritual and Sobriety
In order to be
healed
Heeded and heard again.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Oc
White Resonant Dog
Within my Soul
Shines a Diamond
Point of Purity
Where Love abides –
And Life sings on forever.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 –
Triple Goddess –
Original Trinity –
Original Blessing.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Lamat
Yellow Overtone Star
Klotho*- spin your
golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my
Forehead –
Open wide my virgin
Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle – Scythe
Call forth my Poetry
to arise
Like Pegasus** from
Medusa***
Wingèd, beautiful, and
wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates
or Moirae in Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed
who sprang from the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and
poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient
Lydia whom the goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4
Manik
Blue
Self-Existing Hand
Tanka*
Now, because you are
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
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
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 Darkness into
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 thee, our pure and gentle
Dove
Progenitor of Fealty and Love.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 ––
A Voice that in the End
Bridges Space between Worlds
I Am.
©Kleomichele Leeds
