White Lunar Dog/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 9

 

2 Oc

 

White Lunar Dog 

In the West thin Lips obscure wide Hips---

Speech distracts from rolling

Vibrations in curvaceous heavenly Bodies

 

 An elemental pelvic Language

Calls to the dancing Queens –

Serena—Jehan—Dalia--Salome --

Zahra—Scheherazade—Kleopatra--

 

Mesmerized by whirling beads and silk ---

Reason seeks refuge in Desires of the Heart

To Rest in the Wombs of Women

 

Ethereal Priestesses float unseen

Intoning a Poetry of Completion

Psyche and Eros marry Lip to Hip

The joyous Child is born a dancing Queen.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Red Magnetic Moon/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 8

1 Muluc

 

Red Magnetic Moon 

 

Our Moon – a subtle Sphere

Constantly inconstant

Appearing but to disappear –

 

Reminding us of

Faith unseen

Behind the shifting

Shapes of Things

 

Red Moon---Blue Night

Pale Light

Silhouette in

Silver White

 

Great Tides swell

Beneath her Spell---

Waters rise and fall---

 The Force of this

 

Magnetic Beam

Invites the Soul

To Answer

With a Dream. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Cosmic Star/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 7

 12 Lamat

 

Yellow Cosmic Star

 

 

Heavy was I

With Life unlived –

 Tears unshed

 

Orbiting around myself –

Judging without Mercy

Merciful without Judgment

 

An Ogre sat

Upon my Heart

Devouring my Passion –

 

Then came You –

With Star-bright

Eyes – your

 

Heart warm with Love

Wrapped like a Gift

From Above. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Crystal Hand/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 6

12 Manik

 

Blue Crystal Hand

 

The winter lives

In Death’s apparent frozen Sleep –

Dreamless Days march one against another

Like Soldiers gone to Battle

Each fiercer than its Brother

 

Layered Depths of Frost

Upon a lifeless Tree

Assume the Chill of loneliness

In Nature’s vast Decree

Of Dormancy and cruel Duress

 

The Cycle of a Season’s Rest –

The Time when all Things lay

Beneath sweet sugared Snow

Which knows no Corner

Where it cannot go.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

White Spectral World-Bridger/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 5

11 Cimi

 

White Spectral World-Bridger

 

Death surrounds me now

I swim in the Underworld

Lower than Low –

 

Down in the Depths

Of the Darkness

I drown –

 

Nothing

Is there

In Xibalba*---

Only 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

Red Planetary Serpent/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 4

10 Chicchan

Red Planetary Serpent

 

As she melts upon my Tongue

I swallow down the full Moon whole

She settles in my Belly while

I drink the Wine of Kingdom come

 

She takes a silver Ride inside

Where Flesh had been until

The Promise of a Woman’s Life

Fell beneath a surgeon’s Knife

 

Scalpel cut the Sinew and the Nerve

Creating   Space anew –

My Womb is in the Tomb

But even more, is in its Place

 

My progenies are Prose and Poetry

Conceived in the Soul by Night –

Infants unnumbered are borne

On glistening Beams of blue Light.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Solar Seed/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 3

9  Kan 

 

Yellow Solar Seed

 

Clouds float by

In grand Procession –

Billowing, pillowing

 Wisps of white –

Stately Fortresses of Mist

Kissing a blue Sky

 

Shape-shifters all –

Turning Light to Shadow

Eclipsing both Sun and Moon –

Silently they pass en masse

Carrying Prayers on High.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Blue Galactic Night/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 2

 

8 Akbal

 

 

Blue Galactic Night

 

In the midnight Fire

Of winter’s second Moon

I ascend again – again, I rise

To ask for Blessing

 

In the midnight Fire –

A full Moon blazes --

 Fear disappears

In a Prayer for Love and Peace

 

In the midnight Fire

Of the midnight Hour

My heart’s Wing

Reaches for my Beloved

 

A full Moon burns

Hot in the midnight Sky

 Stars shine without light –

Each tear Turning into

A Pearl of great Price. 

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Resonant Wind/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 1

 7 Ik

White Resonant Wind

I hear a Call

From the eastern Gate –

From Roses on the Vine

 

Lightning flashes Foot to Head

Settling in the Belly –

A slow Burn of wild Desire

 

I feel a Call

Lifting me from the Desert

Out of Drought into Mist --

 

Gone the dry Brush

Gone the burning Sun

 Cool Breezes fly through me

 

I know this Call---

I’ve heard it before---

Before Locusts ate my Passion

 

From an Oasis

Fresh Water flows

My Thirst is sated, my Hunger gone.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Rhythmic Dragon/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 28

 

6  Imix

 Red Rhythmic Dragon

I descend at Height of Day

Mind awake

  Eyes wide open –

 

I find dead my Maidenhead --

A Land of Love strewn with Bones

Dry white Skeletons lying on Stones –

Life decayed/ Care delayed

Turns a Landscape deathly gray

 

 Wind blows through Bones –

Sounding moans, both high and low

For Years and Generations

No Family here –

  Bones alone

 

Shame eats the Flesh of Love

A gaping Maw of guilty Acts

Consumes the Meat that might sustain us –

Furies - Harpies dive

To take the Smile from smiling Lips –

A Hand too frightened to caress

Hits hard and hits again –

Hearts break open –

Red Rage glows –

 

Hear the Breeze

Blowing through Bones –

Too little Tenderness, too late

Can neither stop the Wind

Nor alter Fate.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

 

 

Yellow Overtone Sun/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 27

 

5 Ahau

  

Yellow Overtone Sun 

 

Bare winter Branches --

 

Ancient Arms

 

Reach past Amethyst

 

Through Blue

 

Beyond Blue –

 

Until a salmon

 

Pink Horizon

 

Sets the Sun.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Self-Existing Storm/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 26

 4 Cauac

Blue Self-Existing Storm

 

My Rage is a Black Sun

Burning without Surcease –-

Never setting – never resting –-

 Deep in every Cell

 

My Heart beats red hot bloody wild –

A Cauldron of scalding Tears

Burns my Eyes and drops –-

Wide and without Boundary

Is the Feeling

 

Fathomless Abyss –

I dive through you into

A dear sweet Death –

 

Cool damp Darkness

Tempers my Heat

I fall like a Fireball

Fueled by ancient Anger

Fused with furious Madness

 

Silently I scream –-

Grieving for Dreams

Lost – steeling myself

Against the relentless Power of Life

 

I hit – I die – It is no use

 

I am reborn. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Electric Mirror/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 25

3 Etznab

 

White Electric Mirror

 

 

I dance the Dance of Shiva

Pendant in mid-Air –

Creating to Destroy

I make the Grasses quiver

 

I dance the Dance of Shiva

Mighty Soul on slender Limb –

Alone, I weave a Pattern

Known before the Gates of Eden opened

 

My Filament’s obscure

In the shadowed Night –

Silver Threads invisible save

For Moon’s reflected Light –

 

Symmetrical and Perfect is my Form

Diamond lit with morning Dew –

I spin and waltz – I whirl and turn

Before my Dance is through.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

 

 

8/18/ 2023 Red Lunar Earth/ Magnetic Bat Moon of Purpose, Day 24

 

Red  Lunar Earth

 

On the far Edge of Consciousness

Where Sky meets Earth

The Circles appear –

Beautiful Mysteries

Like veiled Women waiting –

 

Serenely profound

Woven of Grain, Water, and Soil –

Sacred to Goddesses –

Numinous Artistry

From Time immemorial

 

In the Fields they lay

Like mystical Baskets

Holding symbolic Language

Of a new Age of the Goddess –

Music made visible

 

Stepped down in Frequency –

Given freely that we may partake

To nourish the World Soul –

For these are Soul’s Food –

Inklings and Intimations

Of our imminent Evolution

Into Beings of Light.

©Kleomichele Leeds