3 Chuen
Blue Electric
Monkey
Hymn to
Polyhymnia*
Invade my Soul, Beloved One---
Transform my Heart and Mind---
Let neither Fear nor bastard Thought
Deceive or me unconscious find---
Disperse thy Self throughout my self
Each Cell a fractal Entity
Of Quantum Grace---
Magnetic Field---
Celestial Deity.
*Polyhymnia: One of the nine Muses, goddesses of poetic
inspiration, Polyhymnia serves as the Muse of sacred song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Oc
White Lunar Dog
My Spirit falls---shattered
by
Barricades more solid than
Any mortared Brick could
fuse---
Unwittingly I
descend
Into the seventh
Hell
Of lusty Phrases
worn with Use
Divorced and
desperate, I came here
To seek my Self---observe and grow
Beyond the vapid
Realm of Mediocrity---
Cradled by sweet
Reason, my Soul
Reclaims itself into
a Structure girded
Well against satanic
Mockery
You caressed my
Body’s Curves and Spaces---
The trembling of my
Womb
Held you closely dark,
and deep---
In loving you, my
Spirit grew half-strong---
Giddy with Delight
to reach
The Height of
long-forgotten Dreams
But Night and you
together
Blasphemed my sacred
Peace---
The Wish to love
became the Wish to please---
Betrayed by a shallow
Light behind your Eyes
I lay shrouded in
Deception---
I stumbled then but
again will rise.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Muluc
Red
Magnetic Moon
I have stayed with you
And qualify, therefore, like Orpheus
To visit you in the Land of Death---
Your battered Defenses protect you still---
Hiding Grief and Pain unbearable
As you transform within a Cradle of Grace
I cover you as would an Angel---
With Love and sacred Wisdom
Your Wings are mere buds on your Spine---
Made supple by stretching and shivering
Like the hibernating Arctic Fox
In the winter of your Death
You reach for me, your Eskimo---
I dragged your screaming psyche
Into another Place---a warmer Space, where
You might breathe again
I bear the ecstasy of Mysteries
Borne on the back of Agony---
The Price of Initiation.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Lamas
Klotho*- spin your golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my Forehead---
Open wide my virgin Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle/Scythe
Call forth my Poetry to arise
Like Pegasus** from Medusa***
Wingèd, beautiful, and wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates or Moirae in
Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed who sprang from
the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient Lydia whom the
goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Manik
Blue Crystal Hand
The winter lives
In Death’s apparent
frozen Sleep---
Dreamless Days march
one against another
Like Soldiers gone
to Battle
Each fiercer than
its Brother
Layered Depths of
Frost
Upon a lifeless Tree
Assume the Chill of
loneliness
In Nature’s vast
Decree
Of Dormancy and
cruel Duress
The Cycle of a
Season’s Rest---
The Time when all
Things lay
Beneath sweet
sugared Snow
Which knows no
Corner
Where it cannot go.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Cimi
White Spectral
World-Bridger
Death surrounds me
now---
I swim in the
Underworld
Lower than Low---
Down in the Depths
Of the Darkness---
I float apart
From all I knew---
Nothing
Is there
In Xibalba*---
Only the Ache
In my Heart.
*Xibalba is described in the Maya sacred text, Popul Vu as a
court below the surface of the Earth associated with the Lords
of Xibalba, or the Lords of the Underworld.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Chicchan
Red Planetary
Serpent
As she melts upon my
Tongue
I swallow down the
full Moon whole
She settles in my Belly
while
I drink the Wine of
Kingdom come
She takes a silver Ride
inside
Where Flesh had been
until
The Promise of a Woman’s
Life
Fell beneath a Surgeon’s
Knife
Scalpel cut the
Sinew and the Nerve
Creating added Space---
My Womb is in the
Tomb
But even more is in
its Place
My progeniy are Prose
and Poetry
Conceived in the
Soul by Night---
Infants unnumbered
are borne
On glistening Beams
of blue Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
