Red Resonant Moon/Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 24

 

7 Muluc

Red Resonant Moon

 

There once was a Man

Who would blow up the Moon---

Detonate Her  out of the Sky

Why?

 

Unnaturally

The Rhythm of the Tides

The Movement of the Waters

Would cease---

Apparently

These Cycles take too muchTime

For this Man

 

Our Culture demands

Immediate Gratification---

The Instant Fix

A Negation of Life---Death---Rebirth---

Linear Time rules in no Time

Time out of Time with Nature

Earth out of Time---out of Touch---

Out of Tune with the Moon

 

There once was a Man

Who would blow up the Moon---

One wonders what composed

His Mother’s Milk! 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Yellow Rhythmic Star/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 23

 

6 Lamat 

 

Yellow Rhythmic Star 

 

I frequent Beauty

As my Duty and my Due---

 

As Honey

To the Bee---

 

Beauty be

But All to me. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds  

 

Blue Overtone Hand/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 22

 

5 Manik

 

Blue Overtone Hand

 

 How---why---and when indeed

Does Love transform to Need?

 

The giving Hand goes on the Take

The Heart grows dark and cold

 

Once open Arms and Eyes

Close to Possibility and Passion---

 

Suspicion suspends Belief

Trust steps out for a Smoke

 

Neither Relief nor Faith survive

The imminent Loss of Hope. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Self-Existing World-Bridger/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 21

                                                                                                                4 Cimi

 

White Self---Existing World---Bridger

 

Like Ice on winter Roses

Or frosted Dew on Grass---

My Heart Melts

 

Only the Stone

Remains in Place

Outside the Tomb

 

But like a Cloud

The Boulder floats away---

She is risen!

 

The Angel in your voice---

It’s Tone and Timbre

Start my Heartbeat---

 

A Resurrection of Affection---

Wordless Communion

Reunion---Celebration

 

A past Affair---

After a bitter Death---Life

Brought to present Time

 

In Forgiveness---

Remembrance

And Gratitude sublime.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Electric Serpent/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 20

 3 Chicchan

 

Red Electric Serpent

 

In Solitude

I journey down

To meet Ereshkigal---

My Sister dark---

My Shadow

 

Seven times she

Strips my Flesh---

My Veils

 

Bone alone remains---

If I survive

My self will die---

 

And while I mourn

My Soul will be reborn.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Lunar Seed/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 19

 

2 Kan

 

Yellow Lunar Seed

 

There is a Time of Year lies yawning---

Stretching the Space between Seasons

Days---Weeks of Promise when, depending on the Solstice

We stand between cold Dread and warm Anticipation---

 

There is a Time of Year that takes the plant Roots deep---

Makes its Moves from inner Signals

Cosmic Calls of ice-filled Lakes---

Frost---Cold---Wind---Snow and Rain

 The Skies of November resemble a Day in March

When Clouds give no Comfort or Promise of Warmth

 

Finally, winter loses Strength –

A Seed begins its brave invisible

 Ascent to early Suns too pale for warming---

Only Faith supports our Skin and Bones

Now chilled and blue with Longing

For spring, the winter’s Damage to atone

 

That Time of Year lay shivering

While we, like Children, short-sighted

And burning with Desire cannot wait

For howling, whistling Winds

To blow away the old and bring upon the New

The autumnal Days of early spring are rude---

They tease and taunt without Remorse

 

 That Time of Year too short to name until---

Azure fills a Sky of cotton Clouds---

Jonquil Petals open with the Violet

Green Grass quivers with the Flights of little Bees

Whose Legs are yellow Pollen laden---

Daffodil sits up with Hyacinth upon the Hill

The Moth awakes to fly on parchment Wing

The Seasons turn---Gaia smiles---naming Spring.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Magnetic Night/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 18

 

1 Akbal

 

Blue Magnetic Night

 

Sweet Sleep

Enfold me

Travel down

And hold me

To Thy Breast---

 

Long Night

Approach me

Overcome

And take me

Down to

Rest---

 

Tall Dreams

Entrance Me---

Free the Heart

To dance in me

Lest---

 

Dark Fears

Besiege me---

Swallow down

And seize

The very best

Of me.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

White Cosmic Wind/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 17

13 Ik

  

White Cosmic Wind

 

A Phantom have I

Lived with near a Year---

An inner Voice---

A disembodied Face

 

A separate Self---

Beloved yet apart---

A ghostly Lover

Occupies my Heart

 

His surface Charm

Hides Depths unknown---

Deadly and immortal both---

Wild Resentment grown---

 

Upon him, I projected

Every Wound and Crime

Committed from infancy

Until present Time---

 

I fashioned him a Hero

That insubstantial Soul---

But when I cut him loose I saw

The Hero is my Self, made whole.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Crystal Dragon/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 16

 

 

12 Imix

 

Red Crystal Dragon

 

Stories within me

Lie sleeping---

For safe-keeping

I suppose---

 

With the swelling of the Moon

Dreams layered into

 Time and Space awaken

The Wild One within

 

Recurring Patterns rise---  

Interwoven Archetypes---

Paisleys of Divinity

 Design a Woman’s Soul

 

As she quickens with

A Life Force

Formed by Destiny---

So do We. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Spectral Sun/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 15

 

11 Ahau

 

Yellow Spectral Sun

 

The bluest blue Jay cries

To Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

Whose tiny sunlit scarlet Throats

 

Dance

 In grand extravagance---

Otherworldly, truly---

 

Huge Crows dip low ahead

Searching for Breakfast---screeching black

Messengers from an unseen Underworld

 

Guided by the gliding

Flying, dipping, darting

Drumming, thrumming, Hummingbirds---

 

Symbols of an over-arching Wing---

Hints of a Time sublime

When I too, will sing. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Planetary Storm/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 14

 

10 Cauac

 

Blue Planetary Storm 

 

 Dismembered like Osiris

Am I---

 

Parts of me scattered

O’er Land and Sea

 

A Lineage of Gods

Precedes me---

 

Dionysus, Orpheus---

Every sacred King---

 

Where is my Beloved?

Is he forever gone?

 

Is he willing to re-collect

Me Piece by Piece?

 

Re-member me, my blessed Twin---

Redeem me out of Chaos

Into Order

Into Peace! 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Solar Mirror/ Planetary Dog Moon of Intention, Day 13

9 Etznab

 

White Solar Mirror

(Museum Mycenae)

 

Golden earrings

Bracelets---Rings

Pendants---Diadems

Tissue thin

Inlaid with Jasper---

Red Carnelian

 

Vases---Bowls---Cups

Sacred Vessels vibrate

With ancient Symbols---

Shells---Spirals---wild Goats

Great Bulls---Cuttlefish

Rosettes---Chariots

Dolphins leaping

 

Marble Goddesses

Fresh white Flesh---

Alabaster Arms akimbo---

Smooth---unbowed

Though Ten Thousand

Years they hold.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Galactic Earth/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 12

 

8 Caban

Red Galactic Earth

Flown the Arrow from the Bow---

Gone the small white Stone

Into a strongman’s Forehead---

America now removes

Coils of Limitation, Cruelty---

War and Mayhem fade---

She rejects Repeats of History

Fascism. . . Corruption. . . Bigotry

 

An adolescent Nation ripens---

 Evolution races like the Stone---

Shock, Torpor, and Denial lift---

Conviction defeats the Unthinkable---

 Action takes a Turn and strong---

The Arrow finds its Mark

Consciousness rises with the Sun

Stark Division and Evil die in Washington.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

Yellow Resonant Warrior/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 11

 

7 Cib

Yellow Resonant Warrior

“Cinderella”

 

I mop and sweep

I dust and weep

I scour, scrub and fill the Pail

I polish the Knives and Spoons and Forks---

I’m thin and pale

From Overwork!

I wipe and wash

I dry and try

To make my rough Hands soft

I clean and iron

I hustle and bustle

To chase the Dirt away---

I am tired and mired

In Cobwebs and Motes

Floating in vacuumed Air---

I clean the Silver

Hang out the Wash

I bleach and then

Reach for More---

I straighten the Rugs

And change the Sheets---

Fluffing and folding---

Keeping Mice at bay

Did I say Mice?

Hooray!

My Coach is on the way.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Rhythmic Eagle/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 10

6 Men 

 Blue Rhythmic Eagle 

 

Gentle Breezes

Float on Pine –

Which Alchemy to subtle

 Music does refine –

 

Thrumming Whispers humming

Make audible the Air –

 

 Nature’s Instrument the Tree

Exquisite String and Bow –

Singing up to Heaven

The Glory here below. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

White Overtone Wizard/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 9

 

5 Ix

White Overtone Wizard

 

Thou art liquid Crystal rising---

Animated prism’d Rain

I am warm and flaming Fire

Burning in your watery Bower---

 

In tandem, do we represent

Extremes of Nature

Opposites in Temperament---

A Union most phenomenal

This wondrous Fount and Flame---

The Central Alchemy of Godhead---

Hippocrene* by name.

 

*Hippocrene:  the fountain (of the horse) on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses, engendered by a stroke of Pegasus’ hoof; source of poetic inspiration.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Red Self-Existing Skywalker/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 8

 

4 Ben 

 

Red Self-Existing Skywalker

 

 I can almost hear

My Soul walking---

She was crippled---lame

Limping about---

Slouching toward Bethlehem

In Grief and Pain

Separated from Splendor---

Spending Days cramped  

In over-crowded Places---

In small guarded Spaces

 

Now Signs and Symbols shout---

Translating the Unconscious

Into Consciousness---

Crushing the overarching Power

Of the Patriarchy

To miss the Point entirely---

 

Oh, my waking, walking Soul---my Guide---

Let us prance and dance with Ease

Like a fat elm in a strong Breeze---

My Heart beats to the Rhythm of your Stride.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds