1 Men
Blue Magnetic Eagle
From the high Aerie
I rise and soar
Exploring a crystal Sky---
Honing my Eye to the Land and Sea---
Of the Highlands am I born---
Pine and Birch, my Lair---
Over cool Waters, I wheel and climb
Through limpid mountain Air
Blue Eagle, am I
The Rapturous Raptor---
Farsighted Seer of Visions vast
And Dreams of Futures Past.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Ix
White Cosmic Wizard
Down from the North
Floats a Shaman’s Song---
An ancient Melody
Full of Magic---
Words of Love
From the far white North
Where Land, Sea, and Sky are One---
An endless expanse
Where Absolute consumes Relative---
Here lives the Cosmic Wizard
The Healer---wise One
Seer between the Realms
S/he sings and dances
To the traveling Drum---
S/he senses all Things
Through deep Intuition---
S/he heals every Illness
With Skill hard-won
Human Suffering of every Kind
The Shaman knows---
The Joy and Pain of Mother Earth
S/he feels all from Birth.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Ben
Red Crystal Skywalker
I gaze eastward
Toward the Mountains
From the Desert where I rest---
White crystal Blankets
Soften granite Cliffs---
This Quality of tempering
Pervades when Snow descends---
Stark tree Limbs gain Dimension
Green Pine and Holly
Turn joyous and jocund---
Smooth, soothing White
On the Earth after Snow
Echoes a Shift alchemical---
The Soul’s Albedo
Out of leaden Black
Depression---the Dark Night
Turns into Indigo Blue---
Relief---Respite during
Psyche’s Transformation
From Darkness into Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Eb
Yellow Planetary Human
Up I came from the border Towns---
Texas towns of Wind and Heat
Dust unto Dust
Up I drove 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 for Reasons to kill
Small brown People
Gentle and proud
With Hope greater than Fear---
Nothing to lose…
Up drove I through ghostly, ghastly Town after Town
From Palm to Mesquite---
North I came 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 at the Inn for
Brave brown People or me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Chuen
Blue Planetary Monkey
Blue Monkey---
Magical Sky Child
Innocent and Free---
Full of Play and Wonder
Dancing as she walks---
Singing as she speaks
Magician of Manifestation
Blue Monkey materializes
All that she intends---
Unlimited Patterns
Evolve in the Night---
Star Seeds and Sparks
Craft her Body of Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Oc
White Solar Dog
White Dog pulses
With Affection---
Full of Feeling
Full of Heart---
Loyalty is natural
To the Dog of the North
Dog of the White North
Child of the White Wolf
Instinct and Sensory
Realms are his World---
He is ever watchful
Over those he adores---
Spirit Dog of the White North---
Animal Familiar and
Companion of the Shaman.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Muluc
Red Galactic Moon
Sweet---Shy
Coy---Sly---
New Moon’s silver Border
Slipping like a Sapling
As City Noises fade---
Thou art Sky’s white Smile
Semi-circle---celestial Comma---
Parenthesis up-ended
In Ecstasy arisen.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Lamat
Yellow Resonant Star
Beauty’s Eye
Wide and Wise---
Evergreen
Beauty’s Hand
Deft and Clever
Always Dancing---
Beauty’s Mouth
Full of Praise
And Thanksgiving---
Beauty’s Face
Shining---always
Full of Grace.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Chicchan
Red Self-Existing Serpent
Mysteries of the Orient
Ancient India and Eire---
Mesoamerica and Greece
Hold Perennial Wisdom
Sacred as the Earth
And equally erudite---
This is the Provenance
Of Serpent Initiates---
Bringers of Knowledge---
Prophets and Seers
Of Destiny’s Face---
Holders of Treasure
Beyond Measure
Chthonic Masters---
Sky-Clad Mystics.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Kan
Yellow Electric Seed
In its Majesty
Seed’s Mystery
Overwhelms---
She requires only Time and Mist
To Flower into
Infinite Possibility---
Seed Codes are microscopic
Calibrations in a Shell---
Concealing fractal Patterns
Sacred Seeds
Gifted through Generations
Guarantee Survival---
Latent Potentials---
Miracles of Growth
Love and Fertility.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Akbal
Blue Lunar Night
Blue Night falls
In sacred Silence
Trading Daylight
For the dark Light of Dusk---
The lunar Lamp calls
All to ponder
Life’s Meaning and Message---
The Soul’s Journey
The World displays
Unbearable Chaos---
Ready to Transform Devolution
Into Evolution
Human Hearts expand--
The Tides turn…
Opening in Compassion
To every open Hand.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Imix
Red Cosmic Dragon
Make of me
A symphony of Images---
The transcendent Word---
Make of me
A Messenger
Gathering Beauty from the World---
Bestowing Wisdom upon all
Whom I encounter---
Make of my Life
A living Prayer---
A healing Balm and Blessing
Fill my Time with Treasure---
Make Joy my Garment
And Forgiveness my Goal---
May Skywalkers explore
The vastness of my Heart---
The Mansions of my Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Ahau
Yellow Crystal Sun
In sultry Waves
Of visible Heat
The Crystal Sun
Undoes each One---
Without a Breath
Long Days
Slowly fall and fade
Into violet Dusk
Even the evening Breeze
Hangs back and waits
Like an invisible Star
The burning Fabric of Reality is torn---
Let us love and only love
Until true Peace is born.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Cauac
Blue Spectral Storm
Thundering Rumbles---
Smackdown Drops---
Black Dimes on Concrete
Rain pours
Into Crevices---
Slides down Walls
Roaring Bass Drum---
Lightning---fast Flashes
White Serpent streaks---
Shots in the Dark!
Finally---
Sky War Truce
Then
Suddenly---
Sun!
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Caban
Red Solar Earth
In the Dead of Winter, I was born---
The Sighs and Cries rang out for Days
And far into the frigid, crystal Nights---
I missed the New Year’s Day
Descending late---delaying
My Departure from a warm Womb
Into the cold, white World
In the Dead of Winter, I was born
With black wet curly Hair
So overgrown and heavy
That “Monkey” or “Medusa” came to Mind---
Little did I wish to go another Round on Earth
Or feel another mortal Wound---
My Eardrums failed to close
My Eyes so large and dark
I always saw nearsightedly
In the Dead of Winter, I was born---
Life leapt up---dealing Death
A feisty Blow---
Brittle Bough and
Ice-filled Lake no Match for
Red hot Blood---the Will to be---
A fresh young Heart
Making a small Spring
In the Dead of Winter.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Yellow Galactic 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 keep 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 bleached and then
Reach for More---
I straighten the Rugs
And change the Sheets---
Fluffing and folding
Keeping the Mice at Bay
Wait!! Did I say Mice?
Hooray!
My Coach is on the way.
©Kleomichele Leeds
In a twinkling the game will change
And you will know anew what you have forgotten,
And what you have not known will be known to you as if you had
Always known it
But this only for those who choose to wake up…
For the others, messengers of other worlds will arrive
To help them on their way …
And from that moment the new codes of being and reality must be set forth,
The codes of the noosphere
No more nations shall there be
No more money, no more truth in tatters, no more poverty, no more drugs,
No more escape from reality, all that we henceforth disavow
No more guns, no more bombs but a new world of Universal telepathy
Everyone will understand as One and at once will everybody know
There is only one time for the Earth, a simultaneity of day and night,
A continuous synchronicity, one side sleeps while the other wakes,
but all in one and the same moment it occurs, one whole Earth synchronicity.
… Instead of toxic waste and burning seas
Your mind will be set on sacred art
To transform all that has been spoiled into a work of living art
The whole Earth made into a masterpiece
Ringed by a rainbow from pole to pole
A single thought form made visible …
Jose Arguelles
5 Ben
Red Overtone Skywalker
Whenever Eros flies
There, too, are nine---
Daughters of Zeus
And Mnemosyne*
*Mnemosyne: Cultural memory in Greek mythology; also, mother of the nine Muses: Kleo; Thalia; Erato; Euterpe; Polyhymnia; Calliope; Terpsichore; Urania; Melpomene.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Chuen
Blue Electric Monkey
Hymn to Polyhymnia*
Invade my Soul, dear One---
Transform my Heart and Mind---
Let neither Fear nor bastard Thought
Deceive or me unconscious find---
Disperse thy Self throughout my self
Each Cell a fractal Entity
Of Quantum Grace---
Magnetic Field---
Celestial Deity.
*Polyhymnia: One of the nine Muses, goddesses of poetic inspiration, Polyhymnia serves as the Muse of sacred song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Oc
White Lunar Dog
My Spirit falls---shattered by
Barricades more solid than
Any mortared Brick might fuse---
Unwittingly I descend
Into the seventh Hell
Of lusty Phrases worn with Use
Divorced and desperate, I came here
To seek my Self---observe and grow
Beyond the vapid Realm of Mediocrity---
Cradled by sweet Reason, my Soul
Reclaims itself into a Structure girded
Well against satanic Mockery
You caressed my Body’s Curves and Spaces---
The trembling of my Womb
Held you closely dark, and deep---
In loving you, my Spirit grew half-strong---
Giddy with Delight to reach
The Height of long-forgotten Dreams
But Night and you together
Blasphemed my sacred Peace---
The Wish to love became the Wish to please---
Betrayed by a shallow Light behind your Eyes
I lay shrouded in Deception---
I stumbled then but again will rise.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Muluc
Red Magnetic Moon
I have lain with you
And qualify, therefore, like Orpheus
To visit you in the Land of Death---
Your battered Defenses protect you still---
Hiding Grief and Pain unbearable
As you transform within a Cradle of Grace
I cover you as would an Angel---
With Love and sacred Wisdom
Your Wings are mere buds on the Spine---
Made supple by stretching and shivering
Like the hibernating Arctic Fox
In the winter of your Death
You looked for me, your Eskimo---
I dragged your screaming psyche
Into another Place---a warmer Space where
You might breathe again
I bear the ecstasy of Mysteries
Borne on the back of Agony---
The Price of Initiation.
©Kleomichele Leeds
