4 Cimi
White Self---Existing World---Bridger
Like Ice on winter Roses
Or frosted Dew on Grass---
My Heart Melts
Only the Stone
Remains in Place
Outside the Tomb
But like a Cloud
The Boulder floats away---
She is risen!
The Angel in your voice---
Its Tone and Timbre
Start my Heart---
A Resurrection of Affection---
Wordless Communion
Reunion---Celebration
A past Affair---
After Death---Life is
Brought to present Time
In Forgiveness---
Remembrance
And Gratitude sublime.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Chicchan
Red
Electric Serpent
In Solitude
I journey down
To meet Ereshkigal---
My Sister dark---
My Shadow
Seven times she
Strips my Flesh---
My Veils
Bone alone remains---
If I survive
My self will die---
And while I mourn
My Soul will be reborn.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Kan
Yellow Lunar Seed
There is a Time of Year lies yawning---
Stretching the Space between Seasons
Days---Weeks of Promise when,
depending on the Solstice
We stand between cold Dread and warm
Anticipation---
There is a Time of Year that takes
the plant Roots deep---
Makes its Moves from inner Signals
Cosmic Calls of ice-filled Lakes---
Frost---Cold---Wind---Snow and Rain---
Skies
of November resemble a Day in March
When Clouds give no Comfort or
Promise of Warmth
Finally, winter loses Strength---
A Seed begins its brave invisible
Ascent to early Suns too pale for warming---
Only Faith supports our Skin and
Bones
Now chilled and blue with Longing
For spring the winter’s Damage to
atone---
That Time of Year lay shivering
While we, like Children,
short-sighted
And burning with Desire cannot wait
For howling, whistling Winds
To blow away the old and bring upon
the New---
Autumnal Days of early spring are
rude---
They tease and taunt without Remorse
That Time of Year too short to name
until---
Azure fills a Sky of cotton Clouds---
Jonquil Petals open with the Violet---
Green Grass quivers with the Flights
of little Bees
Whose Legs are yellow Pollen laden---
Daffodil sits up with Hyacinth upon
the Hill
The Moth awakes to fly on parchment
Wing---
The Seasons turn---Gaia smiles---naming
Spring.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Akbal
Blue Magnetic Night
Sweet Sleep
Enfold me
Travel down
And hold me
To Thy Breast---
Long Night
Approach me
Overcome
And take me
Down to
Rest---
Tall Dreams
Entrance Me---
Free the Heart
To dance in me
Lest---
Dark Fears
Besiege me---
Swallow down
And seize
The very best
Of me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Ik
White Cosmic Wind
A Phantom have I
Lived with near a
Year---
An inner Voice---
A disembodied Face
A separate Self---
Beloved yet apart---
A ghostly Lover
Occupies my Heart
His surface Charm
Hides Depths unknown---
Deadly and immortal
both---
Wild Resentment grows---
Upon him, I projected
Every Wound and Crime
From Infancy Committed
Until present Time---
I fashioned him a
Hero
That insubstantial Soul---
But when I cut him loose
I saw
The Hero’s but my Self,
made whole.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Imix
Red Crystal Dragon
Stories within me
Lie sleeping---
For safe---keeping
I suppose
Within the swelling
Moon
Dreams layered into
Time and Space awaken
The Wild One within
Recurring Patterns
rise
Interwoven Archetypes---
Paisleys of Divinity
Design a Woman’s Soul
As She quickens with
The Life Force---
So do we all.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Ahau
Yellow Spectral Sun
The bluest Bluejay cries
To Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds
Whose tiny sunlit
scarlet neon Throats
Dance
In grand extravagance---
Otherworldly,
truly---
Huge
Crows dip low
Searching
for Breakfast---screeching black
Messengers
from an unseen Underworld
Guided by the
gliding
Flying, dipping,
darting
Drumming, thrumming,
Hummingbirds---
Symbols of an
over-arching Wing---
Hints of a Time
sublime
When we too will
sing.
©Kleomichele Leeds
