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 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
6 Ik
White Rhythmic Wind
Poetess I call myself as
Lines I rhyme
Fine Phrases do I form---
My Thoughts evolve
In parcèd Time
Rhythms sweet are born---
When 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 us
Peace Moves
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 into 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
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
1 Caban
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 Seasons
And the Treasons
Until the Sun returns.
©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
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 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.”
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 upon
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 the Sky at 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 Light
Into the Origins of Time---
I am the numinous Feminine
In a collapsing World of Men
Initiated into false Values
Fallen Wisdom---devious Lust
But I am Love itself---
The Life that sings
I am Eternal---Infinite
I am the Sacred in all things.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Chuen
Blue Galactic Monkey
Galactic Monkey’s Vision
Pierces Maya’s Veil---
That which is solid
To our Senses
Is in Fact Illusion---
For beneath the Surface
Of third-dimension’s Duality
Shimmer Realms of the Absolute---
In unified, glorified Wonder
We have lived so long
In the materialized, mechanized World
We are hypnotized ---
Mesmerized to Sleep
Deep in the Consciousness
Of Self-realized Samadhi
We perceive with Cosmic Vision
The sacred Unity of Life
From One we were born---
To One we re-turn.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Oc
White Resonant Dog
Within my Soul there
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
Thou art a Star
Unbound---Uncontained
By Pain or Fear
Fed by a Mind invincible---
A Spirit moved and moving---
Thy Soul is a living Wonder---
Steeped in Anima’s Glory
Strong as a Lion’s Roar.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue Self-Existing Hand
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
1 Kan
Yellow Magnetic Seed
Sonnet X
In each of us a Beauty and a Beast
In all a Light and Darkness of the Heart
In each a Famine and a Holy Feast
In all the Whole of which we are a Part
In every Mind lives Human and Divine
In each One two Voices in 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 that’s complex 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
13 Chuen
Blue Cosmic Night
Into the wild Sea
I dive---
Into the wild Wave
One with the open Sky
Am I---
One with an 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 these
Dancing Magic---
Calling forth the Soul in Thee.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Imix
Red Spectral Dragon
My Grief---
I own it as I would
A Dagger plunged
Into my Heart
The Blade would
End my Life
If it were Steel
Yet Sorrow steals
Much more than Breath
From the dancing Soul---
Psychic Wounds
Bleed Tears unceasing---
Suffering deeply scars
Our Ground of Being. . .
Until at last Eros lands to
Pull the Knife out clean.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Ahau
Yellow Planetary Sun
The disembodied Voice
So long held dear---
Communication
From afar---
Each Syllable and Word
Recalled---
Love’s Labors these
When Bodies separate---
Reunion puts a Face on Love---
Alters Space and Time
Adds Dimension---
More Feeling to a Phrase
Rounding out Reality
Fashioning Past and Future
Into Here and Now---
Transforming Promise
Into Vow.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Cauac
Blue Solar Storm
My Heart is closed for Repairs---
Out to Lunch
Shut down
Boarded up against you
You refuse to give to
Starving Subway Seekers---
To me you give few Words
Weak Affection
A Pittance of Attention
Therefore I retreat---
Withdraw and free myself
From this Neglect
Until further Notice---
My Heart is closed for Repairs.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Etznab
White Galactic Mirror
Against green Vine
Violet Thistles bloom
Needle Pines grow
Near white Seafoam
Monarch sails in
Orange and black
From Chrysalis
To Continents
Sips syrup sweet---
Then soars in Flight
Vibrant Contrast---
Wingèd Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Caban
Red Resonant Earth
I set down
A Ring of Fire---
The Bone
The Feather and the Cone
My Territory mark
I lay in waiting---
Still---until
You crossed
The confines
Of my Heart
The Ring of my Wondering
The Ring of my Wandering
You braved the Flaming Limits
Of my Rage
My Childhood died---
Fear fell as well
When true Love spoke
You broke the Spell.
©Kleomichele Leeds
