9 Manik
Blue Solar Hand
Be brave---believe
in Her----know Her
For She makes
the Hearts of Life
Forming Links---
Connecting Parts
She drinks
your Tears
And from them
makes
New Flesh---firm
and warm
She re-creates all Form
She uses
your Heart---
Its
pounding, thrumming Drum
To seed the
Colors of Life
To dance and
sing its Song
Life---Death---Life
is She
Eternal Turn
and Re---turn
She is the
Drama of Destiny
She is the Healer within you and Me.
©Kleomichele
Leeds, PhD (c)
Grandmother Spider weaves,
While Space/Time waits
Preparing for Rebirth---
Soul spins a Body
Taking on Karma
Descending then to Earth
Held by Threads invisible
Silver---obscure---delicate---
Woven on the Loom Maya*---
Undetectable Sacred Patterns
Holding Codes of Origin---
Bind us all to Fate.
©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)
*Tzolk’in: Sacred Mayan Calendar
-- Pieces of the Sun/Count of Days, the Tzolk’in is a sacred radio-genetic
resonant transformer reflecting the creation codes of the Cosmos in 260 units
containing all possible permutations of 13 Tones and 20 Hieroglyphs.
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, PhD (c)
6 Kan
Yellow Rhythmic Seed
Into the Light, she moves
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. PhD (c)
5 Akbal
Blue Overtone Night
What is Magic
But empowered
Dreaming?
Strength to draw
All radiant Images
From Psyche’s Depths
Symbols flash---
Line 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, PhD (c)
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 thirsted and starved 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 I
then found
A Bridge of Sighs on
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, Phd (c)
3 Imix
Red Electric Dragon
Twilight unwraps
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, PhD (c)
