Red Resonant Serpent/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 26

 

 

7 Chicchan

Red Resonant Serpent 

 

My precious Friend, regard me not askance

Though I deserve your Gaze, most skeptical

I cannot fault you for your wary Glance

For of myself, I make pure Spectacle

It is to Tears my Words one could compare

Both flow in uncontrollable Remorse

In Composition, they so poorly fare

To express Passion from its deepest Source

These Words survive though Tears do disappear

Poetry at least puts Form on Feeling

But I do risk your Mockery and Fear

Trying to convince you of my Meaning

 

Emotion, when translated to Refrain

Loses too Much but gambles more to gain. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)

March 3, 2026 Yellow Rhythmic Seed/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 25

 

6 Kan

 

Yellow Rhythmic Seed

 

Into the Light, she moves

From Darkness---from Chaos

Carried on a Flute and Drum---

Her Fire transforms Water

Into Earth and Air

 

Music builds the Waves

Upon a Sea of Sound---

 Dancer in the Mist---

Cymbals sing---Sequins flash

On quivering Feathers and Flesh

 

Joy floats upon her Smile

She lifts the Rhythm

From Hips to Hands

So full of Grace the Heart aches

In its serpentine Race to Soul.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds. PhD (c)

Blue Overtone Night/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 24

 

5 Akbal

 

Blue Overtone Night

 

What is Magic

But empowered

 Dreaming?

 

Strength to draw

All radiant Images

From Psyche’s Depths

 

Symbols flash---

Line numinous Fish

Spinning in a dark Sea---

 

Enough to feed

All starving Souls---

 

Cast your Line---

Wait for Symbol

 

Catch the Silver

Keep the Gold. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)

White Self-Existing Wind/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 23

 

4 Ik

 

White Self-Existing Wind

 

Many a past Love had passed over me

Those I thought true became truly false

I lost all my Loves in Loss untimely

To Lust’s illusory three-quartered Waltz

 

Terrified of Solitude

Friendship I sought with purloined Emotion

Grief and Misery rendered me numb

Grandiose, aggressive, and rude---

 

I thirsted and starved at Fate’s great Banquet

Refusing to learn or earn my Share

Finally abandoned by all who knew me

I gave myself up to Insanity

 

“Take me,” I prayed to a god unknown

“Release me from Hell on Earth.”

In Desperation I then  found

A Bridge of Sighs on the River of Life---

 

Part of me died---the Fear and the Pride

As a Newborn, I crossed the Bridge---

When at last I reached the other Side

I perceived a Meal most strange!

 

The Fare was unpleasant, not easy to swallow

It stuck in my Throat but nourished my Soul

Compelled to eat without knowing why

I had Breakfast of Crow and a large Humble Pie.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, Phd (c)

Red Electric Dragon/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 22

 

3 Imix 

Red Electric Dragon 

Twilight unwraps

An amber New Moon---

Pale Cuticle---

Crescent Scythe

Low on the Horizon

 

Astonishing

Ethereal silver Bow---

First Feminine Principle---

Innocent Glow

 

She sings the Endings of

Things as they are

She sings of Beginnings

Cycles, Successions---

Inspiring Initiation into

World-Soul Transformation. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)

2/27/2026 Yellow Lunar Sun/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 21

 

2 Ahau

 

Yellow Lunar Sun

 

Prior to Sight comes Sound

Hoof Beats like Heart-beats on Blacktop---

 Horse and Rider bound

For Work or Home---

Seeking Sustenance as the Sun

Reaches Zenith---sere and severe

 

Clip-clop/ clip-clop / clip-clop---

A Brown sorrel Mare moves into View

With a side-saddled Shepherd shouting, “Yasu!”

“Yasu!  Πώς είσαι?” I respond---

He tips his Hat to me

 

Finally, bringing up the Rear

Of this Ionian Cavalcade

A creamy Labrador Retriever

Panting in Anticipation and Thirst---

She knows that in the final Reckoning---

The Last shall be the First. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)

Blue Magnetic Storm/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 20

 

1 Cauac 

Blue Magnetic Storm

 

We sail---

 

Along shallow Streams of Obscurity

 

Into a wide River of Mediocrity---

 

Across tempestuous Seas of Humanity

 

Through black Storms of Loneliness

 

Until the distant Shores of Bliss---

 

Find us. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds, PhD (c)