White Electric World-Bridger/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 16

 

 

3 Cimi

White Electric World-Bridger

Bullies birth the Saints 

Long-suffering---

One Hundred and Four 

Thousand Years an Age 

 Alphabet turns Hieroglyph---

And Cries of Grief to Song.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Lunar Serpent/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 15

 

 

2 Chicchan

Red Lunar Serpent

Sonnet V

Let us move our Mourning to Thanksgiving 

Replacing all Despair with Second Sight

That we may count ourselves among the Living

Whose Vision sees through Darkness into Light 

Between us many Obstacles arise

To block our Path of Faith around the Earth 

But when at last we see with Spirit’s Eyes 

The poison Snake of Sadness dies at Birth--- 

Our Gratitude and Faith forever sound

In ringing Psalms of Memory and Praise 

Beyond the Walls of Sorrow, we are found 

With joyous Hymns of Love for all our Days.

All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle Dove

Progenitor of Consciousness above.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Magnetic Seed/ Overtone Peacock Moon, Day 14

 

  

1 Kan

Yellow Magnetic Seed

Sonnet X

In each of us a Beauty and a Beast 

In all a Light and Darkness of the Heart 

In each a Famine and a Holy Feast 

In all the Whole of which we are a Part 

In every Mind lives Human and Divine 

In each One two Voices in the Soul 

In every Fruit, hard Seed, and honeyed Wine 

Within each Particle resides the Whole 

In all that’s Uniform---Diversity 

In all Duality does Union hide 

In all that’s complex lives Simplicity 

In all who fear are Faith and Love denied

Though Maya’s subtle Veil hides all that’s True

With conscious Sight, the single Eye peers through.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Cosmic Night/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 13

 

13 Chuen

Blue Cosmic Night

Into the wild Sea

I dive---

Into the wild Wave 

One with the open Sky

Am I---

One with an open Wing 

Into the Forest green

I wander 

Into a mountain Spring 

I am One with these 

Sea---Sky, and Wood---

Fierce and free like these am I 

The Rhythm of Nature 

Life---Death---Life

Is replicate in me 

For I am these 

Dancing Magic---

Calling forth the Soul in Thee.

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Crystal Wind/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 12

 

 

12 Ik

White Crystal Wind

Beyond all Saints and Sages

Above Fear and Philosophy 

Past Word and Image ---

Through burning Rages---

Melancholy Stages 

Resolving into Pages

Whereupon I pour my Soul 

My Heart beats 

In a sacred Alembic---

Transforming into an Alchemy

Where only Love can be. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

11/25/2024 Red Spectral Dragon/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 11

 

 

11 Imix

Red Spectral Dragon

My Grief---

 I own it as I would

A Dagger plunged

Into my Heart

The Blade would

End my Life

If it were Steel 

Yet Sorrow steals

Much more than Breath

From the dancing Soul---

Psychic Wounds

Bleed Tears unceasing---

 Suffering  deeply scars

Our Ground of Being. . .

Until at last Eros lands to

Pull the Knife out clean.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Planetary Sun/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 10

 

 

10 Ahau

Yellow Planetary Sun

The disembodied Voice

So long held dear---

Communication 

From afar---

Each Syllable and Word

Recalled---

Love’s Labors these

When Bodies separate--- 

Reunion puts a Face on Love---

Alters Space and Time

Adds Dimension---  

More Feeling to a Phrase

 Rounding out Reality 

Fashioning Past and Future

Into Here and Now---

Transforming Promise 

Into Vow.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

Blue Solar Storm/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 9

 

 

9 Cauac

Blue Solar Storm

My Heart is closed for Repairs---  

Out to Lunch 

Shut down 

Boarded up against you

You refuse to give to

         Starving Subway Seekers---

To me you give few Words 

Weak Affection 

A Pittance of Attention 

Therefore I  retreat---

Withdraw and free myself

From this Neglect

Until further Notice---

My Heart is closed for Repairs.

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Galactic Mirror/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 8

 

 

8 Etznab

White Galactic Mirror

Against green Vine

Violet Thistles bloom 

Needle Pines grow

Near white Seafoam 

Monarch sails in

Orange and black 

From Chrysalis

To Continents

Sips syrup sweet---

Then soars in Flight

Vibrant Contrast---

Wingèd Light.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Resonant Earth/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 7

 

 

7 Caban

Red Resonant Earth

I set down

A Ring of Fire---

 The Bone 

The Feather and the Cone 

My Territory mark 

I lay in waiting---

 Still---until 

You crossed

The confines

Of my Heart 

The Ring of my Wondering 

The Ring of my Wandering 

You braved the Flaming Limits

Of my Rage 

My Childhood died---

 Fear fell as well 

When true Love spoke  

You broke the Spell.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Rhythmic Warrior/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 6

 

 

6 Cib

Yellow Rhythmic Warrior

I will shock you into Joy---

Enough to slough away

The routine Day 

Rendering sacred each Moment

In a heartfelt Hour---

Whenever you forget

Or lose your Self 

I will appear---

Exploding unexpectedly

In the Heart of your Mind---

In the Mind of your Heart 

If fleeting Greed and Fear 

Freeze Creation

I will shake you

To your sacred Roots

With a Thunderbolt of Truth---

Oh, dearest One---

Hear my Words

Ineffable and numinous---

Feed your Soul

With Manna irresistible

Welcome me 

For I am Love

Made visible---

Your highest Hope

Revealed 

Your greatest Passion fulfilled

Life in Death Am I---

The Resurrection and the Way

Oh, my Beloved 

Your Heart beats

To my Rhythm---

Open to receive me

At your Heart’s Door

For I stand and knock

I shall shock you---

Rock and roll you

Into the Fire-stream

Of Destiny---

Arise!

Now is the Time!

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Overtone Eagle/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 5

 

 

5 Men

Blue Overtone Eagle

Song of Persephone*

Lord of the Underworld---

You captured me, abducted

Overwhelmed and took me down---

Down to Darkness and Chaos

Down in the midst of Night 

Down to your Kingdom below us 

Down where there is low Light

To the Land of the Dead---

Shades of long ago and might-have-been 

Where Obsessions rule, Ghosts live

Old Sins revive and breathe again---

Ignorant was I in Ways of Seduction 

Masquerading as Love---perfect Prey

For the rapacious Wolf of Desire---

The Eagle of Transformation

In your long gold Chariot

You came for me inevitably---

Now I am Queen of the Underworld 

Now I am Priestess of Mystery---

When Innocence is Violence bound 

Then is a Maiden lost---

And there a Myth is found.

*Persephone is Demeter’s daughter, abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and forced to stay with him for four months of the year. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Self-Existing Wizard/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 4

 

 

4 Ix

White Self-Existing Wizard

Now the wounded Heart

Breaks open---broken 

Into Soul’s sweet Ear

Artilleries and Armies

Lob thundrous Volleys 

Every Form of Fire Power

Sheds every Form of Blood

As Within, so Without

As Above, so Below

How…

When…

Where…

Peace?

NOW!

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Electric Skywalker/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 3

 

 

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

Yellow Lunar Human/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 2

 

 

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

Blue Magnetic Monkey/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 1

 

1 Chuen

Blue Magnetic Monkey

Sonnet X

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 black 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

White Cosmic Dog/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 28

 

 

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

Red Crystal Moon/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 27

 

 

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

Yellow Spectral Star/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 26

 

 

11 Lamat

Yellow Spectral Star

 

Constantly inconstant---

 Shape-shifting Moons

Keep sacred Time

In perfect Harmony

 

 Maidens rise

With Twilight---

Slender silver Curves

In pale blue Skies

 

 Round Mothers grow

Bright shining in 

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

Blue Planetary Hand/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 25

 

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/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 24

 

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

Red Galactic Serpent/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 23

 

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

Yellow Resonant Seed/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 22

 

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

Blue Rhythmic Night/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 21

 

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

White Overtone Wind/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 20

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

 

Red Self-Existing Dragon/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 19

 

 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

Yellow Electric Sun/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 18

 

 

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

Blue Lunar Storm/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 17

  

2 Cauac

Blue Lunar Storm

I sacrificed the Sacrifice---

My Womb’s removed and never tried--- 

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.

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Magnetic Mirror/ Self-Existing Owl Moon of Form, Day 16

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