3 Muluc
Red Crystal Moon
Like a Cup of Gold
Half-Moon rises
Filling up and pouring bright
Into an eastern Sky
Oceans reflect her Likeness
Refracted---added unto---and
multiplied
Upon their surface Swells---
Waves of Dark and scattered Light
Sailing through Night she
Transmutes into a silver Grail---
Descending slowly to her Bed
When finally, She sleeps.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Lamat
Yellow Spectral Star
Constantly inconstant---
Shape-shifting
Moons
Keep sacred Time
In lunar Harmony
Maidens rise
With Twilight---
Slender silver Curves
In pale blue Skies
Round Mothers grow
Bright shining in
Full Moon’s glow---
Golden Gowns glistening
Atropos* decreases---
Light recedes---
Stars intensify
Gibbous Crones succeed---–
Briefly.
*Atropos: One of the three Fates in Greek Mythology, who influences human
destiny. Atropos is known as the Inexorable and carries the shears that cut
the thread of life.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Manik
Blue Planetary Hand
Beneath the silver Eyelash
Of a Brand-New
Shining Moon
Blue Planetary Hand
Like a golden Wand---
Passes over Land
Manifesting in its Passing
Perfect Healing
Magical in Kind---
Accomplishment of
Knowledge
Total Comprehension---
Peace and Understanding.
©Kleomichele Leeds
White Solar
World-Bridger
Sonnet IX
Thou art the Blessing
of a too-kind god
When for a Partner
did my Spirit cry---
You see my Virtue
where no Other would
While to my Faults
you close a loving Eye---
As I write the Lyric
you play the Song,
Melodies thus fashioned
live forever---
It’s true that to
each Other we belong
A Duet in tune---discordant
never---
A Separation makes
our music still---
Still meaning silent
yet continuing
No Power is as
strong as true Love’s Will---
Bold Instrument of Heaven’s
designing
Faith has yielded
what Desire could not do---
For I alone could
ne’er imagine you.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Chicchan
Red Galactic
Serpent
Salome am I
And Solomon---
Lebanon and Egypt
Palestine and Yemen
I am Fatima
Priestess of the
East
Morocco am I
Ethiopia and Crete
I am Goddess---
Serpent-handed
Serpent-haired
I am Alhambra
Athens---Turkey
The Levant
I am the Oriental
Dance
Algeria am I
Tunis and Baghdad
The Emirates
And Israel
I am the wine-dark Sea---
The Mediterranean
Gulfs of Aqaba and Persia
Petra and Peninsula
I am Jordan
Libya---Sudan
Macedonia
Armenia and Oman
Je suis la Grèque ancienne
I am She---
Terpsichore.*
*Terpsichore: the ancient Greek Muse, Goddess of Music
and Dance.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Kan
Yellow Resonant Seed
Song of the Anthropocene
Gone are the Wild
Things
Young and Old---
Gone are the Wild
Things
Green and Gold---
Gone are the Wild
Things
Large and Small---
Going are Wild
Things
Every and All.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Akbal
Blue Rhythmic Night
Up
from the Depths
Through
blue rhythmic Night---
An
Abundance of Dreams
Symbols
and Themes
Redolent
with Archetype---
Signifying
Treasure
Cherish
these---
For
numinous are they
And
Sacred
With
Energy enough
To
render whole
A lost or broken Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
