White Solar World-Bridger/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 22

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 the Lyric write 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

2/27/2019 Red Galactic Serpent/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 21

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

I am la Grèque ancienne

I am She –

 Terpsichore.*

*Terpsichore: the ancient Greek Muse, Goddess of Music and Dance.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/26/2019 Yellow Resonant Seed/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 20

7 Kan

Yellow Resonant Seed

I recall the Night Medusa came to me –

“All that has been, that is, and that shall be”

I stood in western Twilight -

Revelation filled my Soul

My Blood awoke in Ecstasy

With the Knowledge that – She IS!

Then I knew the triple Goddess –

Sacred Feminine Power

Disparaged, despised, forgotten

Feared, beheaded, left for dead –

Lives ON!

Not a creature hideous

But a Symbol glorious

Medusa –

Wise Mother of Mysteries

Derider of  Evil and  Ignominy –

Your Gaze destroys

Your Blood resurrects

From you spring Chrysaor of the golden Sword

And Pegasus, the white-winged Steed

Without whom would Poets thirst –

     Their Muses without Hippocrene.*

*Hippocrene: literally “fountain of the horse.”  When Pegasus kicked the side of Mount Helicon, abode of the Muses, water sprang forth to inspire them and slake their thirst.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/25/2019 Blue Rhythmic Night/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 19

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

2/24/2019 White Overtone Wind/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 18

5 Ik

White Overtone Wind

Psyche’s Song*

I lit the Lamp of Insight

I saw the God in you

A Spark – a sparkling Star

Beneath your hooded Eye -

In Fear you spread your Wings

To fly away –

Now I wonder and I wander

In Anguish and Despair –

Each Breath a mournful Cry

Are you gone forever?

Will you really let me die?

Or will you save me, Love,

From my riven Soul

And the existential Lie?

*Eros, the god of love, deserts Psyche, his lover when she looks upon him in the night. She has been forbidden to do so. Therefore, he flies back to his mother, Aphrodite, goddess of love. Psyche and Eros symbolize the inner feminine and masculine aspects of soul and consciousness which must be reconciled before psychological wholeness is achieved.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/23/2019 Red Self-Existing Dragon/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 17

4 Imix

Red Self-Existing Dragon

Like Fish are we

Swimming in Oceans of Soul

This Holy Water

Serves as Habitat

Sustaining All invisibly

Immanent Grace

Our Birthright –

From Sea to shining Sea.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/22/2019 Yellow Electric Sun/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 16

3 Ahau

Yellow Electric Sun

From Jasper come we –

Emerald Electricity

And Sapphires blue –

 Souls wander through

Stygian Darkness

Into the Wombs of Women

Spiraling Flight

Tumbles into Being

Pulsing in Time

As Above, So Below

 Spine holds the Code

From Root to Crown

Zodiacal Gates

Open to Symbol

Life after Life

Children of Light

Spin into Story – then –

To Story we Re-turn.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/21/2019 Blue Lunar Storm/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 15

2 Cauac

Blue Lunar Storm

I sacrificed the Sacrifice –

My Womb’s untrammeled and untried

Am I Virgin now

Or just worth Less?

I hear a distant Symphony

A Hymn of String and Drum –

I abide on the metaphysical Side

Full of wild Life –

A swirling whirling

Stormy Sea of Poetry

This is my Rebirth

And my Becoming –

My Atonement and Salvation

Raison d’être and Redemption.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/20/2019 White Magnetic Mirror/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 14

1 Etznab

White Magnetic Mirror

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

Second largest in the World

She ebbs and flows with Tides eternal

Reaching out with Waves unfurled

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

Atlantic she is called in our own Tongue

Yet she does sing in Tongues unnumbered

Songs for every Land and Old and Young

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

Laughing with the dancing Stars of Night

She captures all celestial Beams and Planets

Within her endless Matrices of Light

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

Kissing all the Shells upon the Shore

She stretches salty Arms around her Islands

As if to say she could not love them more

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

Between two Continents does she sit

Protecting all that lives beneath her Surface

Bearing to her Ports each noble Ship

There is an Ocean by the Highlands

She is the Stuff of Life and Lore

She beckons all with Swells unceasing

As Poseidon for his fair Athena roars.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/19/2019 Red Cosmic Earth/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 13

13 Caban

Red Cosmic Earth

Mysteries of the Orient

Ancient India and Eire –

Mesoamerica and Greece

These are Traditions

Old as Earth

And equally Wise

These are the Province

Of the Serpent Initiate –

 Wisdom Bringer

Prophet and Designer

Of Destiny’s Face –

Vessel of Treasure

Serpent Initiate

Chthonic Mistress

Sky-clad Seer!

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/18/2019 Yellow Crystal Warrior/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 12

12 Cib

Yellow Crystal Warrior

One need not travel far to Dreamland –

Let the Thread unwind

To the Bottom of the Deep –

Close your Eyes – untie the Knot

And fall asleep

The Weaver will awaken

When you are unaware

Intertwining Dreams through

Layered Realms of Truth

Keep close these Shades remembered –

Disjointed – vague – dismembered

Starry Robes of Hypnos

Strewn with Sign and Symbol

Take the magic Carpet’s Flight

To the Markers and the Making

Of the sleeping and the waking

Tapestry and Language of the Night.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/17/2019 Blue Spectral Eagle/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 11

11 Men

Blue Spectral Eagle

Each Bird on the Wing

Has a Song to sing

A  Poetry of Sailing

Over Land and Sea

 Sagas of Birth – Death

And ReBirth

Great Stories of Flight

Adventures in the Nest

Paragraphs on Patience

Epics on Air and Light

From the Hearts

Of Eagle and Ibis –

The Wonder of a perfect Egg

Enclosing self-sufficient Life

The Report of a Morning

When out from within

A Chick tumbles forth

New – Damp – Beloved –

Miraculous Beloved!

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/16/2019 White Planetary Wizard/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 10

10 Ix 

White Planetary Wizard

I will arise now

And fly to Aaron

Fly to my Love

In the Desert night Air

Purple grapes will I bring

To feed him and Figs

Under the Moon

In the Desert night Sky

For him I will dance

Be-jeweled and Kohl-eyed

Entrance him will I

In the Desert night Air

I will anoint him

With Oils exotic

Soothing his Heart

In the sweet Desert Air

Unto Aaron will I fly

Under sparkling Stars

With Roses in my Hair

Through the Desert night Air 

I will read to him Verses

From the Poet’s wild Heart

Enchant him will I

'Neath the dark Desert Sky 

  

 Music drifts down –

Melodies sacred

Liquid and rare

On the Desert night Air

Aaron, my Priest –

Prince of the Desert

Aaron, my Almond Branch

Young, strong and fair

The music drifts down

Down from the Sky

Liquid and rare

In the desert night air

Aaron, my priest –

Prince of the desert

Aaron, my almond branch

Young, strong and fair.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/15/2019 Red Solar Skywalker/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 9

9 Ben

Red Solar Skywalker

The Mind beyond all Measure Power holds

Thought sends us into Heaven or to Hell

One long enclosed in Bars of Iron cold

When dreaming full escapes his prison Cell

Whence exists our Paradise eternal

Where Time and Space lose all significance?

By transmuting thoughts of Fear infernal

Into devotion’s transcendental Dance

Worth more is Vigilance than Sacrifice

Pre-requisite to Life miraculous

 Avoid all Fear while curbing Avarice

Thus will the Cosmos all your Missions bless

Dreams manifest in Synchronicity

When sacred Time designs Reality.

©Kleomichele Leeds

2/14/2019 Yellow Galactic Human/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 8

8 Eb

Yellow Galactic Human

Long before…

Before I was (a) Being

I was just a Human Doing

 Being just a Doing

Moved me to Despair

In this State I met Inmates

All of us sad – all of us desperate

 Squirrels in a Cage –

Rats in a Maze

I knew not what to be or do –

How to escape – where to go

Finally surrendering all that I did

I went where I truly lived

Mind and Body are merely Tools

To build a Being worthy

Mind and Body make no Case –

Lock, Stock and Barrel

 I move into Grace!

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Resonant Monkey/ Galactic Hawk Moon of Integrity, Day 7

7 Chuen

Blue Resonant Monkey

Wherefore in the Center

When Primary

Becomes its Opposite –

Here lives Hecate

She of the Power of Words

Spirit of Crossroads

Deity of Intersections

Wise Woman Archetype

 Three-Kingdom’d Queen

Fairy Mother God

Here Crucifixion lives –

The Cross of third Dimension –

Illusion of limited Souls –

Body electric becomes

Alchemical Alembic

Water and Fire

Become Go(l)d

Resurrection supplants Death

Ascension signifies Hecate –

Divinity within

Denied, defamed and Herself –

Crucified.

©Kleomichele Leeds