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
10 Ahau
A disembodied Voice
So long held dear---
Communication
From afar---
Each Syllable and Word
Recalled---
Love’s Labors these
When Bodies separate---
Reunion puts a Face on Love---
Alters Space and Time
Adds Dimension and more
Feeling to a Phrase
Rounding out Reality
Fashioning Past and Future
Into Here and Now---
Transforming Promise
Into Vow.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Cauac
Blue Solar Storm
My Heart is closed for Repairs---
Out to Lunch
Shut down
Boarded up against you
You refuse to give
Even to starving Subway Beggars---
To me you give few Words
Weak Affection
A Pittance of Attention
Therefore I retreat---
Withdraw and free myself
From this Neglect
Until further Notice---
My Heart is closed for Repairs.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Etznab
White Galactic
Mirror
Against green Vines
Violet Thistle blooms
Needle Pines grow
Near white Seafoam
Monarch sails on wings
Both orange and black
From Chrysalis
To Continents
Sipping syrup sweet---
Soaring into Flight
In Vibrant Contrast---
Wingèd Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Caban
Red Resonant Earth
I set down
A Ring of Fire---
The Bone
The Feather and the
Cone
My Territory mark
I lay in waiting---
Still---until
You crossed
The confines of
My Heart
The Ring of my
Wondering
The Ring of my
Wandering
You braved the Flaming
Limits
Of my Rage
My Childhood died---
Fear fell as well
When true Love spoke
You broke the Spell.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Cib
Yellow Rhythmic
Warrior
I will shock you into Joy---
Enough to slough away
The routine Day
Rendering sacred each Moment
In a heartfelt Hour---
Whenever you forget
Or lose your Self
I will appear---
Exploding unexpectedly
In the Heart of your Mind---
In the Mind of your Heart
If fleeting Greed and Fear
Freeze Creation
I will shake you
To your sacred Roots
With a Thunderbolt of Truth---
Oh, dearest One---
Hear my Words
Ineffable and numinous---
Feed your Soul
With Manna irresistible
Welcome me
For I am Love
Made visible---
Your highest Hope
Revealed
Your greatest Passion fulfilled
Life in Death Am I---
The Resurrection and the Way
Oh, my Beloved
Your Heart beats
To my Rhythm---
Open to receive me
At your Heart’s Door
For I stand and knock
I shall shock you---
Rock and roll you
Into the Fire-stream
Of Destiny---
Arise!
Now is the Time!
©Kleomichele Leeds
