4
Manik
Blue
Self-Existing Hand
Tanka*
Now, because you are
Free to fly, I shine, glisten
And glimmer like a
Clear crystal Tear on the Tip
Of your out-stretched feathered Wing.
*Tanka: A Japanese form of poetry comprised of five lines and
31 syllables: five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables
respectively.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Cimi
White Electric World-Bridger
Fleeting Illusion---
Perpetual Motion---
Constant Change---
Electric Charge---
White Cloud---
Spirit Breath
Dissolving in
Blessings of Rain
White Cloud
Or Gray or Silver-lined
Seem Wind
Made visible and fair---
The sacred alchemical Wedding
Of Water and Air.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Chicchan
Red Lunar Serpent
Sonnet V
Let us move our Mourning to
Thanksgiving
Replacing all Despair with Second
Sight
That we may count ourselves among the
Living
Whose Vision sees through Darkness into
Light
Between us many Obstacles arise
To block our Path of Faith around the
Earth
But when at last we see with Spirit’s
Eyes
The poison Snake of Sadness dies at
Birth---
Our Gratitude and Faith forever sound
In ringing Psalms of Memory and
Praise
Beyond the Walls of Sorrow, we are
found
With sweet and holy Hymns for all our
Days.
All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle
Dove
Progenitor of Consciousness and Love.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Kan
Yellow Magnetic Seed
Moving up and out –
In the here and now
Am I---
Neither Shadow nor Shade
Nor Partner nor Maid
Am I---
Whole and complete
Aware and replete with Wisdom
Am I---
Unchained---unbowed---unwed
Free to choose---choosing Freedom
Am I---
Fierce and mighty
Grateful and giving
Am I––
Creating---destroying---preserving
All that comes to Matter
Am I––
Daughter---Sister---Mother
Woman---Friend
Am I–--
A Voice that in the End
Bridges Space and Time
Am I.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13
Akbal
Blue
Cosmic Night
Into high Symbol
We go---
And low also---
Initiation transforms
Soul---
Life takes on fractal Meaning---
Each reflects the whole
But first to the Dark
Night
The Underworld of War---
Wotan’s* Ecstasy
This Wave of Time/Space
crests---
Cataclysm provokes
Trinity into Quaternity---
Hamlet transforms into
Faust
Making deals with a Devil
Descend to the Mothers---
Sacred Goddesses’
Diadem
Earth’s Mysteries foretell
A New Jerusalem!
*Wotan: one-eyed Teutonic god with an
insatiable appetite for war, power, and chaos---a symbol of blind violence.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Ik
In and out
The Sea breathes
Herself awake
On morning’s Tide---
The Breeze---
A cleansing Current of
Crystalline Air---
Giving up Debris
In frothy Paroxysms
She bequeaths and leaves
Flotsam and Jetsam---
Shells and more
Upon her polished Shore.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
