Yellow Planetary Human/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 27

10 Eb

Yellow Planetary Human

 

Up came I from the border Towns –

Texas towns of Wind and Heat

 Dust unto Dust

 

Up drove I from a Valley of Death –

Border Patrols – screaming Sirens –

Burly men searching for “Wetbacks”

 

Crossing the Rio Grande –

Swimming for their Lives and Children

Braving Cold – Darkness – Nets - Death

 

Cops everywhere in those Texas Towns –

Armed and dangerous Vigilantes

Looking to find a Reason to kill

 

Small brown People

Gentle and proud

With Hope greater than Fear –

 Nothing to lose

 

Up drove I through ghost Town after Town

From Palm to Mesquite –

North came I when Night descended

Looking for Shelter – none to be had –

 

Every Lad from the Oil Fields

With pockets full of Cash

Filled every Space – sold out – locked down

No Room att the Inn for

Brave brown People or me.   

      Kleomichele Leeds      

Blue Solar Monkey/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 26

 

9 Chuen

 

Blue Solar Monkey

 

Amid the glossy Steel and engine’s Roar

I saw his Eyes point blank –

 

Blue like Skies---Jay’s Wing -- Ocean Water

In the Sun that set as we flew north

From Warmth, carried on a soft Wind

 

We sat in antiseptic Splendor

On a Plane of Strangers---

In Time we broke the sound Barrier---

Decided that we’d found

Too much to speak of to let go –

 

“No”---suspend the Night and Day

Escape from Pain, seek Peace, delay

Your Flight and stay with me---

I heard his Plea

Asking that I change my Course

Rearrange my Night and Day

For him

 

I uttered my Reply

Dared not deny myself the Instinct

Too long held captive, Wings clipped –

Not allowed to fly--- 

 

The Jewel of that March Night

Shimmered with our Heat and Light –

Our Bodies fused---

Desire keenly felt

And tightly wrapped around us

 

Is this my Fate---

My Destiny incarnate?

Bronze Strength---blue Fire

Cool green Mountain Shade

On white hot Desert Sand

 

My dear One---

My Atlanta one Night Stand.

  

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

White Galactic Dog/ Planetary Dog Moon of Manifestation, Day 25

 

8 Oc

 

White Galactic Dog 

 

How do I tell thee of my Love?

Are Verses sung in Tune enough

To move you beyond moving?

 

Shall I paint a Portrait of Affection

Reflecting deep Enchantment?

 

My Affection turns Affliction---

Its Weight is heavy on my Heart

 

 Fear battles Hope

That in the Telling I will see

 

Acceptance---willingness

To love me in Return---

 

Fear locks the Gates of Love

 Faith alone holds fast the Key.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

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