10 Muluc
Red Planetary Moon
Learn the Language
Of the Moon---
A new Word daily
For Love and Beauty
The Day-Keeper’s Time
Marked in Poetry---
Nature’s Language murmured
In Rhythm and Rhyme
Galaxies sail
The ethereal Brine
Ships of colored Light
In Sacred Design
My Classroom---
An ever-darkening Sky full
With Intimations of Infinity---
Blessed Fruits---silver Blossoms rife
Adorn the Cosmic Tree of Life.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Lamat
Yellow Solar Star
Sun
And Moon
Pyramids of Stone---
Heart’s Fire---Dust
unto
Dust----Immortal Toltec
Gods
Creation’s ancient Glyph
& Tone---
Sacred flaming Gifts
to Quetzalcoatl---
Plumed Serpent---Symbol of a Shaman’s Crown
I climb
The moaning
Wind to the Summit---
Phoenix rising from
the Ashes---
Past Lives renewed
and incarnated---
Who climbed these
HeGights, never to descend?
Who
Prayed here to
Gods of Fear and
Desperation? Echoes hum
Sung by Souls gone
long ago to Rest---
Gentle Patience pulses in silent shining Stars
Watching the dubious
Progress of Man---
How miniscule are these grand
Structures to the wide
Eyes of Heaven?
The Sun or
Moon?
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue Galactic Hand
Two wild Swans
Swim stately by
The northern Shore---
Symbols of the peaceful Soul---
Self---Realized and whole
Apparently, a Pair
One female---one male
Calm and slow
Mark of the sacred Androgyne –
White as driven Snow.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Cimi
White Resonant World-Bridger
The Seed within the Fruit
Her Power is Potential
Patient, prudent---innocent
Confused with Knowledge often---
Great Insight grows apace
In graceful, peaceful Solitude
In rich Experience
Finally Wisdom blossoms
The Shell surrounding breaks---
We perceive beyond all Form
A Shift from Fear to Love is born.
6 Chicchan
Red Rhythmic Serpent
Transformation flows
Through Universal Waters
Into Air from Fire
The Phoenix flies
Life Force quickens the Circuit---
Organizing Instinct
Endure!
Your Survival is
Assured.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Kan
Yellow Overtone
Seed
Sing this song
for Women
Who are left
bereft---
When Children,
Brothers, Husbands, Parents die---
Women of the
War-torn World---
Killed and maimed---
Burned---stoned---raped---beheaded
and shot through---
Let us weep for
those
Who live
half-lives---Hearts torn too---
Riven into jagged
wounds---
Wet with sacred
Water---
Wet with tears of
Grief
Weep also for
those
Patriarchal Harpies
Whose Passion
becomes Madness---
When Logic gives
way
And Violence
holds sway
These Women are
Women no more---
Lost in the
Wasteland of a Land undone---
This country, like
an aberrant
Adolescent,
thrown between Extremes---
Losing all
Balance
These women
Shriek---
Unnerved by
Insanity
They shout from
twisted Mouths---
Hurling Insults
and Epithets---
These Women are
deranged
Unstrung---women
who kill
Their young with
prejudicial Poison---
Cry for these
Hearts
Shattered---battered
beyond Repair
Hearts living
outside the Body---
Like Kahlo's Paintings
Unconnected---broken---closed
to Compassion
Women no
more
These “Vagina
Dentatae”---
The blind Graeae with one Eye only.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Akbal
Blue Self-Existing Night
Double Vision
Found in Dreams
Gives Way
To central Scenes---
Telling Psyche’s Story
In symbolic Allegory
These elemental Forms
And Themes---
Character---Conflict---Plot---and
Play
Perform throughout
The long dark Night
To reconcile the Day.
©Kleomichele Leeds
