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 scars deeply
The Soul’s Ground of Being. . .
Until Eros lands at last
To pull
The Knife out clean.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Ahau
Yellow Planetary Sun
A 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
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
8 Etznab
White Galactic Mirror
Against green Vines
Violet Thistle blooms
Needle Pines grow
Near white Seafoam
Monarch sails on
Orange and black
From Chrysalis
To Continents
Sipping syrup sweet---
Soaring into Flight
In Vibrant Contrast---
Wingèd Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
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
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 to the Soul 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 the 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 a Maiden's lost---
And there a Myth is
found.
* As Demeter's daughter, Persephone is abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and forced to stay with him for four
months of the year.
©Kleomichele Leeds
