6 Men
Blue Rhythmic Eagle
Gentle Breezes
Float on Pine---
Which Alchemy refines
to subtle Music---
Thrumming Whispers humming
Make audible the Air---
Nature’s Instrument the Tree---
Exquisite String and Bow
Singing up to Heaven
The Glory here below.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5
Ix
White
Overtone Wizard
Thou art liquid Crystal rising---
Animated prism’d Rain
I am warm and flaming Fire
Burning in your watery Bower---
In tandem, do we represent
Extremes of Nature
Opposites in Temperament---
A Union most phenomenal
This wondrous Fount and Flame---
The Central Alchemy of Godhead---
Hippocrene* by name.
*Hippocrene: the fountain (of the horse) on Mount Helicon
sacred to the Muses, engendered by a stroke of Pegasus’ hoof; source of poetic
inspiration.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
4 Ben
Red Self-Existing Skywalker
I can remember
My Soul walking before
She was crippled---lame
Limping about---
Slouching toward Bethlehem
In Grief and Pain---
Separated from Splendor
Spending Days cramped
In over-crowded Places---
In small guarded Spaces
Now Signs and Symbols shout---
Translating the Unconscious
Into Consciousness---
Crushing the overarching Power
Of the Patriarchy
To miss the Point entirely---
Oh, my waking, walking Soul---my Guide---
Let us prance and dance with Ease
Like a fat elm in a strong Breeze---
My Heart beats to the Rhythm of your Stride.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Eb
Yellow Electric
Human
(A Sonnet
Shakespearean)
Oh Muse---oh Husband, may you be the
same
That I need only look to one for All
Allow our Marriage to yield more than
Name
As Adam cherished Eve before the Fall
Dear Muse, dear Husband, if it be our
Will
May well our Union celebrated be
While we tend Progeny from Ink and Quill
Prolific now but more so presently---
We’ll populate the earth with
measured Feet---
Not Human merely but also in Verse
Where Gallantry stirs Honor not Deceit---
And high Esteem o’er the Universe
When so my musing husbanded shall be---
None other would I bow before but
Thee.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Chuen
Blue Lunar Monkey
Winged Ones gather---
Jay, Dove, and Crane
Calling each other
In joyous Refrain
On Branch and Vine
They entertain---
In verdant Abundance of
Oak and Pine.
1 Oc
White Magnetic Dog
In the West thin Lips
obscure wide Hips---
Speech distracts
from rolling
Vibrations of curvaceous
heavenly Bodies
An elemental pelvic Language
Calls to the dancing
Queens---
Serena…Jehan…Dalia…Salome…
Zahra…Scheherazade…Kleopatra…
Mesmerized by
whirling beads and silk---
Reason seeks refuge
in Desires of the Heart
To Rest in the Wombs
of Women
Ethereal Priestesses
float above
Intoning a Poetry of
mystical Love---
Psyche and Eros marry
Lip to Hip
The joyous Child is born a dancing Queen.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Muluc
Red Cosmic Moon
Our Moon---a subtle Sphere
Constantly inconstant
Appearing but to disappear---
Rekindling a
Faith unseen
Behind the shifting
Shapes of Things---
Red Moon---Blue Night
Pale Light---
Silhouette in
Silver White
Great Tides swell
Beneath her Spell---
Waters rise and fall---
The Force of her
Magnetic Beam
Invites the Soul
To Answer
With a Dream.
©Kleomichele Leeds
