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 then where no Sound lives
Save the Murmur of the Tide.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Chuen
Blue Magnetic Monkey
Thy laughter is the Rush of Angel Wings
Thy Smile is the Sun on the Horizon
One Call from Thee and my Heart
fairly sings
I pray the Songs and Words will ne’er
be done
I see in Thee a Diamond Star of Night
Lending all its luster to a dark Sky
Forever brought from Darkness into
Light
By Faith so perfect in its Alibi
I know and trust that you do love me
well
For never did a Kiss reveal as much
In its magnetic Pull and tidal Swell
To realms of Peace, I flew with one fine
Touch
May Heaven bless this Union wondrous
fair
That none could ever separate this Pair.
©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 light
From the Eastern Sky
Oceans reflect her Likeness
Refracted, added unto, and multiplied
Upon their surface Swells---
Waves of Dark and scattered Light
Sailing through Night she
Transmutes into a silver Goblet---
Descending slowly to her Bed
When finally, She sleeps.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Lamat
Yellow Spectral Star
Constantly inconstant –
Moons shift
Shape
Keeping sacred Time
In perfect Harmony
Maidens rise
With Twilight---
Slender silver Curves
In pale blue Skies
Round Mothers grow
Bright shining---
Full Moons glow---
Golden Gowns glistening
Atropos* decreases---
Light recedes---
Stars intensify
Gibbous Crones succeed –
Briefly.
*Atropos: One of the three Fates in Greek Mythology, who influences human
destiny. Atropos is known as the Inexorable and carries the shears that cut
the thread of life.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Maniik
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 as
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
Red Galactic
Serpent
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.
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 really 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
4 Imix
Red
Self-Existing Dragon
Like Fish are we
Swimming in Oceans of Soul
This Holy Water
Serves as Home
Sustaining All invisibly
Immanent Grace
Our Birthright –
From Sea to shining Sea.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Ahau
Yellow Electric Sun
From Jasper we come---
Emerald Electricity
And Sapphires blue---
Souls wander through
Stygian Darkness
Into the Wombs of Women --
Spiraling Flight
Tumbles into Being
Pulsing in 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---
Then…to Story, we Re-turn.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Cauac
Blue Lunar Storm
I sacrificed the Sacrifice---
My Womb untrammeled and untried
Am I Virgin now
Or just worth Less?
I hear a distant Symphony
A Hymn of String and Drum---
I abide on the metaphysical Side
Full of wild Life---
A swirling whirling
Stormy Sea of Poetry
This is my Rebirth
And my Becoming----
My Atonement and Salvation
Raison
d’étre and Redemption.
1 Etznab
White Magnetic
Mirror
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Second largest in the World
She ebbs and flows with Tides eternal
Reaching out with Waves unfurled
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Atlantic she is called in our own
Tongue
Yet she does sing in Tongues
unnumbered
Songs for every Land and Old and
Young
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Laughing with the dancing Stars of
Night
She captures all celestial Beams and
Planets
Within her endless Matrices of Light
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Kissing all the Shells upon the Shore
She stretches salty Arms around her
Islands
As if to say she could not love them
more
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
Between two Continents does she sit
Protecting all that lives beneath her
Surface
Bearing to her Ports each noble Ship
There is an Ocean by the Highlands
She is the Stuff of Life and Lore
She beckons all with Swells unceasing
As Poseidon did for fair Athena roar.
©Kleomichele Leeds
