7 Men
Blue Resonant Eagle
Red---White---Blue/Black---Yellow
Such are the colors
Of the Medicine Wheel---
Such are the colors of Humankind
Red---White---Blue/Black---Yellow
East---North---West---South
Such are the Cardinal Directions---
Such are the Faces of the Wind
This Cosmology heals---
Strong Medicine it is---
Whereby all have Dignity
Each is honored
Red---White---Blue---Yellow
Brothers and Sisters all---
Denizens of the Medicine Wheel
Each is needed for All to Heal.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Ix
White Rhythmic
Wizard
(New York City
Suite)
A cacophony of Horns---
Movement---Motion
Rapid restless
Commerce---
Monument to Materialism
Temptation---Seduction
Greatness of Possibility
Possibility of Greatness---
Choices---Changes
Losses---Gains
Solid---Intense---Grey
Concrete testimonies to Genius
Architecture---Fashion---Art
Finance---Efficiency---Economy
But above All---
Ambition.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Ben
Red Overtone
Skywalker
Whenever Eros flies
There, too, are nine---
Daughters of Zeus
And Mnemosyne*
*Mnemosyne: Cultural memory in Greek mythology;
also, mother of the nine Muses: Kleo; Thalia; Erato; Euterpe; Polyhymnia; Kalliope; Terpsikhore; Urania; Melpomene.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Eb
Yellow Self-Existing
Human
My eyes close as I
awaken
To Feelings found
again
Love---Joy---Terror
Flood my Heart
Change is on the
Wing---
From Innocent to
Woman---
Psyche’s archetypal
Journey
Hidden like a Flame
beneath the Sea.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
