Red Resonant Serpent/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 11

 

 7 Chicchan

 

Red Resonant Serpent 

 

My precious friend, regard me not askance

Though I deserve your gaze, most skeptical

I cannot fault you for your wary glance

For of myself, I make pure spectacle

It is to tears my words one could compare

Both flow in uncontrollable remorse

In composition, they so poorly fare

To express passion from its deepest source

These words survive though tears do disappear

Poetry at least puts form on feeling

But I do risk your mockery and fear

Trying to convince you of my meaning

Emotion, when translated to refrain

Loses too much but gambles more to gain.

  

©Kleomichele Leeds

9/29/2024 Yellow Rhythmic Seed/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 10

Yel low Rhythmic Seed

Into the Light, she flows

From Darkness---from Chaos

Carried on a Flute and Drum---

Her Fire transforms Water

Into Earth and Air

 

Music builds the Waves

Upon a Sea of Sound---

 Dancer in the Mist---

Cymbals sing---Sequins flash

On quivering Feathers and Flesh

 

Joy floats upon her Smile

She lifts the Rhythm

From Hips to Hands

So full of Grace the Heart aches

In its serpentine Race to Soul.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Overtone Night/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 9

 

5 Akbal

 

Blue Overtone Night

 

What is Magic

But empowered

 Dreaming?

 

Strength to draw

All radiant Images

From Psyche’s Depths

 

Symbols flash---

Numinous Fish

Spinning in a dark Sea---

 

Enough to feed

All starving Souls---

 

Cast your Line---

Wait for Symbol

 

Catch the Silver

Keep the Gold.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

9/27/2024 White Self-Existing Wind/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 8

 

 4 Ik

 

White Self-Existing Wind 

 

Many a past Love had passed over me

Those I thought true became truly false

I lost all my Loves in Loss untimely

To Lust’s illusory three-quartered Waltz

 

Terrified of Solitude

Friendship I sought with purloined Emotion

Grief and Misery rendered me numb

Grandiose, aggressive, and rude---

 

I starved and thirsted at Fate’s great Banquet

Refusing to learn or earn my Share

Finally abandoned by all who knew me

I gave myself up to Insanity

 

“Take me,” I prayed to a god unknown

“Release me from Hell on Earth.”

In Desperation then I found

A Bridge of Sighs over the River of Life---

 

Part of me died – the Fear and the Pride

As a Newborn, I crossed the Bridge---

When at last I reached the other Side

I perceived a Meal most strange!

 

The Fare was unpleasant, not easy to swallow

It stuck in my Throat but nourished my Soul

Compelled to eat without knowing why

I had Breakfast of Crow and a large Humble Pie.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Electric Dragon/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 7

 

3 Imix

  

Red Electric Dragon

 Twilight reveals

An amber New Moon---

Pale Cuticle---

Crescent Scythe

Low on the Horizon

 

Astonishing

Ethereal silver Bow---

First Feminine Principle---

Innocent Glow

 

She sings the Endings of

Things as they are

She sings of Beginnings

Cycles, Successions---

Inspiring Initiation into

World-Soul Transformation. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Lunar Sun/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 6

 

2 Ahau

 

Yellow Lunar Sun

 

Prior to Sight comes Sound

Hoof Beats like Heart-beats on Blacktop---

 Horse and Rider bound

For Work or Home---

Seeking Sustenance as the Sun

Reaches Zenith---sere and severe

 

Clip-clop/ clip-clop / clip-clop---

A Brown sorrel Mare moves into View

With a side-saddled Shepherd shouting, “Yasu!”

“Yasu!  Πώς είσαι?” I respond---

He tips his Hat to me

 

Finally, bringing up the Rear

In this Ionian Cavalcade

A creamy Labrador Retriever

Panting in Anticipation and Thirst---

She knows that in the final Reckoning---

The Last shall be the First.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

9/24/2024 Blue Magnetic Storm/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 5

 

1 Cauac

  

Blue Magnetic Storm

 

 We sail---

 

Along shallow Streams of Obscurity

 

Into a wide River of Mediocrity---

 

Across tempestuous Seas of Humanity

 

Through black Storms of Loneliness

 

Until the distant Shores of Bliss---

 

Find us. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Cosmic Mirror/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 4

 

13 Etznab

 

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

Red Crystal Earth/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 3

 

12 Caban

 

Red Crystal Earth

 

After its long Descent

Into Space/Time

Into Third Dimension---

The Soul sleeps

 

Encased in the Body

Set upon the Earth---

While Soul slumbers

Awaiting Holy Birth

 

 Spirit’s Mission

Here on Earth?

 The awakened Soul

Healed and whole

 

Like Dionysus we

Are twice---born

First into Body

 Then into Soul

 

Consciousness rises

From Womb and Cross

 Proclaiming Resurrection---

The Truth and the Way--- 

 

In this sacred Union  

Spirit joins Soul---

Love and Joy accomplished

Fear forever gone. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Spectral Warrior/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 2

 

11 Cib

 

Yellow Spectral Warrior

 

Always have you been

A singular Woman in a World of Men

 

Summon the Heroine---

The Rebel Soul rises

 

Within the Heart

Your Soul is twain

 

 Weakling meets Warrior---

Conflict rises daily with the Sun

 

If Origin is Answer

Then into the Struggle run

 

Run toward the Light of the Son

Into the living Fire

 

Into the shining Sea

Into the widening Gyre

 

Transcend all Opposites---

Kshatriya and Brahman grow

 

Into the Angels above---

Into the Angels below.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Planetary Eagle/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 1

 

4 Men

 

Blue Planetary Eagle

 

Blue Eagle, do you hear the call

Singing through the Oak and Pine---

 Whispering Tendrils on the Vine?

My Voice---a faint Murmur in the Night

Kissing you softly awake

 

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Song

Floating on a misty Mountainside

Rushing down a narrow Waterfall

Up the lazy River of your Spine

Like a lovely Lotus Blossom?

 

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Sound

Crowning and surrounding you

Sighing for your Soul

To learn its Language?

 

Blue Eagle, do you hear the Drum

Signaling the Rhythm of your Days

As you become the Master of your Fate?

Blue Eagle, mark the Measure of your Glory

Embrace the Grandeur of your Story---

 

Now!

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Solar Wizard/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 28

 

9  Ix

White Solar Wizard

 

Deep within

The planetary Heart

A Serpent calls

For Vision and Power---

 

Her fluid Form

Transforms daily

Among deep Roots

Of the great World Tree

 

She ascends

Amid an Abundance

Of blossoming Branches---

The Flowers of all Nations

 

She perceives

Timeless Harmonics---

An endless Cosmos---

Paradise in each Dimension

               

Transfigured---transformed

She knows herself as

Intercessor between

Heaven and Earth

 

The Shaman arises

As a Wingèd Serpent---

Mistress of the Middle Way---

Polarities embodied

Married and merged.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Galactic Skywalker/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 27

 

8 Ben

 

Red Galactic Skywalker

 

Skywalker red

Fly to the Moon

Tonight full in Libra

Tonight full in Love

 

Step aside Stars---

Skies---open wide

 

Amber Globe glistening

Shimmering bright---

Enough to brightest Silver

Turn by Midnight

 

Subtle Moonglow---

 Silent strong Force

What Miracle keeps

This Sky Ship on Course?

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds 

Yellow Resonant Human/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 26

 

7 Eb

 

Yellow Resonant Human

 

 

For all the days of all your life be sure

That my love reaches you through time and space---

My heart limns phrases of a faith secure

Beyond all doubt – all fear it doth erase

Our spirits sound a harmony divine

Transforming sorrow into joyful song---

Devotion grows in manner strong and fine

To victory and triumph we belong---

In truth we rise into realms eternal

Protecting one another from all strife---

Bathed in wisdom, bliss and light supernal

We pass through death together into Life

 

Unchain thy Self forever from all pain---

That our noble Spirits may be born again.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

 

Blue Rhythmic Monkey/ Lunar Scorpion Monkey of Challenge, Day 25

 

 

6 Chuen

 

Blue Rhythmic Monkey

 

Moon-Song pulls us

Through life/death/life

Surrounding Bodies with Soul

 

Soul is paramount

Paradox and tantamount

To our blessed Destiny

 

Purpose lends meaning

To Life in this Mechanized Age

False Age, False Time, Wrong Ratio

 

Art alone unites

Anoints

Appoints the Angels

In our Midst.

 

_{©Kleomichele Leeds}