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; Kalliope; Terpsikhore; Urania; Melpomene.
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4 Eb
Yellow Self-Existing
Human
My eyes close as I
awaken
To Feelings found
again
Love---Joy---Terror
Flood my Heart
Change is on the
Wing---
From Innocent to
Woman---
Psyche’s archetypal
Journey
Hidden like a Flame
beneath the Sea.
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3 Chuen
Blue Electric
Monkey
Hymn to
Polyhymnia*
Invade my Soul, Beloved 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.
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2 Oc
White Lunar Dog
My Spirit falls---shattered
by
Barricades more solid than
Any mortared Brick could
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 stayed 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 your Spine---
Made supple by stretching and shivering
Like the hibernating Arctic Fox
In the winter of your Death
You reach 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
13 Lamas
Klotho*- spin your golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my Forehead---
Open wide my virgin Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle/Scythe
Call forth my Poetry to arise
Like Pegasus** from Medusa***
Wingèd, beautiful, and wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates or Moirae in
Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed who sprang from
the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient Lydia whom the
goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Manik
Blue Crystal Hand
The winter lives
In Death’s apparent
frozen Sleep---
Dreamless Days march
one against another
Like Soldiers gone
to Battle
Each fiercer than
its Brother
Layered Depths of
Frost
Upon a lifeless Tree
Assume the Chill of
loneliness
In Nature’s vast
Decree
Of Dormancy and
cruel Duress
The Cycle of a
Season’s Rest---
The Time when all
Things lay
Beneath sweet
sugared Snow
Which knows no
Corner
Where it cannot go.
©Kleomichele Leeds
