3 Ben
Red Electric Skywalker
Language beyond Language---
Silent Sound
Subtle Music
Knowledge beyond Knowledge---
Faith---Certainty
Despite Illusion
Space beyond Space---
Amazing Beauty
Peace and Grace
Time beyond Time---
Eternity flirts and lifts her Skirts---
Souls unite in Joy
Measure beyond Measure---
Marks the Love I feel
Love unfailing---brave and bold
Treasure beyond Treasure
Invaluable---inviolate
The cosmic Center of a Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Eb
Yellow Lunar Human
It was an August Moon that wed us---
Led us far beyond the Night
A billion Stars were Witness with
An incandescent Light
This lunar Lamplight cast a Spell---
We traveled through an Aureole
To a secret dreaming Place
Held close in fond Embrace
Down an Aisle’s liquescent Silver
Beneath the Moon’s quiescent Ride
The Ocean sent us where no Sound lives
Save the Murmur of the Tide.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Oc
White Cosmic Dog
My Love---
It is a Part of me apart
Although it dwells within my Heart
Sculpted in Mortality---
It is Immortal sure for
Far beyond the Boundaries of Life
It does endure---
How can Life be ordinary now?
It is by Light infused
Yielding such Vitality
To grow above
And fly apace
The Passages of Time and Space---
Conquering all Limitation
False Device and Artifice
Becoming infinitely fine –
Forever.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Muluc
Red Crystal Moon
Like a Cup of Gold
Half-Moon rises
Filling up and pouring bright
Out of the Eastern Sky
Oceans reflect her Likeness
Refracted, added unto, and multiplied---
Upon the Surface dancing Swells in
Waves of Dark and scattered Light
Sailing through Night she
Transmutes into a silver Grail---
Descending slowly to her Bed
When finally, She sleeps.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Manik
Blue Planetary Hand
Beneath the silver Eyelash
Of a crystal New Moon
Blue Planetary Hand
Passes over Land---
Manifesting in its Passing
Perfect Healing
Accomplishment of
Knowledge
Total Comprehension---
Peace and Understanding.
©Kleomichele Leeds
White Solar World-Bridger
Sonnet IX
Thou art the Blessing of a too-kind god
When for a Partner did my Spirit cry---
You see my Virtue where no Other would
While to my Faults you close a loving Eye---
As I the Lyric write you play the Song,
Melodies thus fashioned live forever---
It’s true that to each Other we belong
A Duet in tune---discordant never---
A Separation makes our music still---
Still meaning silent, yet continuing
No Power is so strong as true Love’s Will---
Bold Instrument of Heaven’s designing
Faith has yielded what Desire could not do---
For I alone could ne’er imagine you.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Chicchan
Salome am I
And Solomon---
Lebanon and Egypt
Palestine and Yemen
I am Fatima
Priestess of the East
Morocco am I
Ethiopia and Crete
I am Goddess---
Serpent-handed
Serpent-haired
I am Alhambra
Athens---Turkey
The Levant
I am the Oriental Dance
Algeria am I
Tunis and Baghdad
The Emirates
And Israel
I am the wine-dark Sea---
The Mediterranean
Gulfs of Aqaba and Persia
Petra and Peninsula
I am Jordan
Libya---Sudan
Macedonia
Armenia and Oman
I am la Grèque ancienne
I am She---
Terpsichore.*
*Terpsichore: the ancient Greek Muse, Goddess of Music and Dance.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Kan
Yellow Resonant Seed
Gone are the Wild Things
Young and Old---
Gone are the Wild Things
Green and Gold---
Gone are the Wild Things
Large and Small---
Gone are the Wild Things
Every and All.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Akbal
Blue Rhythmic Night
Up from the Depths
Through blue rhythmic Night---
An Abundance of Dreams
Symbols and Themes
Redolent with Archetype---
Signifying Treasure
Cherish these---
For numinous are they
And Sacred
With Energy enough
To render whole
A lost or broken Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Ik
White Overtone 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---
Now I wonder, and I wander
In Anguish and Despair---
Each Breath a mournful Cry---
Are you gone forever?
Will you 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 Ahau
Yellow Electric Sun
From Diamonds we derive
Emerald Electricity
And Sapphires blue---
Souls wander through
Stygian Darkness
Into the Wombs of Women---
Spiraling Flight
Tumbles into Being
Pulsing with Time---
As Above, so Below---
Spine holds the Codes
From Root to Crown
Zodiacal Gates
Open to Symbol
Life after Life---
Children of Light
Spin into Story---
Thus we return eternally.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 weeping 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
Beware!
The Slaughter of Innocents
Goes not unpunished.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Men
Blue Spectral Eagle
When I hear your Voice
I hear the Bells
I always have
I always will
One Bell signals Happiness
A Heart fulfilled and blessed---
The second rings with Joy---
The Song of a barefoot Boy
Then Exhilaration do I hear
And feel when you’re with me
Finally, the chime of Ecstasy---
The Bliss of a Soul set free.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Eb
Yellow Galactic Human
Long before…
Before, I was a Human Being
I was just a Human Doing
Being just a Doing
Moved me to Despair
In this State, I met Inmates
All of us sad---all of us desperate
Squirrels in a Cage---
Rats in a Maze
I knew not what to be or do---
How to escape---where to go
Finally surrendering All that I did
I went where I truly lived---
Mind and Body are merely Tools
To build a Being worthy---
To build a Being of Soul!
Mind and Body made no Case---
Lock, Stock, and Barrel
I moved into Grace!
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Oc
White Rhythmic Dog
I am conquered--
Shorn of Pride and Prejudice
I am lost--
My Heart doth flee my Breast
I am thine--
And thus, cannot be lonely
My Thoughts would never rest
But rest upon Thee only --
I am found--
And love the Feeling well
I am bound--
By Bonds of Heaven and Hell
For Heaven it is to greet thee
And Hell it is to leave thee
My Soul calls out to thee
In Poems wild and sweet
The Rhymes and Couplets meet
To keep us Company
Else could I not live
Until thou dost return to me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Muluc
Red Overtone Moon
If only I could heal each Wound you own
And mend the Places where your Soul is torn
A silver Moonbeam I would sculpt and hone
That it might pierce the hardest Heart e’er born
A golden ray of Sunlight will I use
To thread my Quill with soothing Thoughts and Care
Every Rift and Ravel you will lose
To perfect Suture, excellent Repair
But Time alone has Tools to fare so well –
In my Power I do presume too much
Wishing that in wishing itself could dwell
A Magic only Angels use and touch.
My hope is that a perfect Love and Time
Transform all Pain into Peace sublime.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Lamat
Yellow Self-Existing Star
Rising Moon---
You dazzle like
Another Sun
Silently lifting
Your silver Gown
Into a velvet black Sky
Stars hang
Faint and obscure
Before your Majesty---
Time and Tide
Are Moon’s domain---
Her Beauty absolute
Lady of the Evening Light---
Sovereign Queen of Night.
©Kleomichele Leeds
