White Planetary Mirror/ Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 2

10 Etznab

White Planetary Mirror

Murdered was my Soul –

Surgically

Methodically

Intentionally 

In infancy

Ignored –

Or given deadly

Double Meanings

By five

I was wise –

Well beyond my Years

Thoroughly repressed

Utterly depressed

It got much worse –

Needle Tracks

Insults – Incest – Neglect

Not – so – veiled References

To my horrendous Imperfections –

There was no pleasing

No appeasing

No approval

In their Eyes

I fail

In all Ways –

Is it my Death-wish?

Or just my Death

They wish?

My Soul was

Shattered long ago

And with it died my Dreams.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Solar Earth/ Crystal Rabbit Moon of Cooperation, Day 1

9 Caban

Red Solar Earth 

In the Dead of Winter I was born

The Sighs and Cries rang out for Days

And far into the frigid, crystal Nights

I missed New Year’s Day

Descending late – delaying

My Departure from a warm Womb

Into the cold, white World

In the Dead of Winter I was born

With black wet curly Hair

So overgrown and heavy

That “Monkey” or “Medusa” came to Mind

Little did I wish to go another Round on Earth

Or feel another mortal Wound –

My Eardrums failed to close

My Eyes so large and dark

Always saw short-sightedly

In the Dead of Winter I was born

Life leapt up - dealing Death

A feisty Blow –

  

Brittle Bough and

Ice-filled Lake no Match for

Red hot Blood – the Will to be

A fresh young Heart –

Making a small Spring

In the Dead of Winter.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

Yellow Galactic Warrior/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 28

Yellow Resonant Warrior

“Cinderella”

I mop and sweep

I dust and weep

I scour, scrub and fill the Pail

I polish the Knives and Spoons and Forks –

I’m thin and pale

From Overwork!

I wipe and wash

I dry and try

To keep my rough Hands soft

I clean and iron

Hustle and bustle

To chase the Dirt away –

I am tired and mired

In Cobwebs and Motes

Floating in vacuumed Air –

I clean the Silver

Hang out the Wash

I bleach and then

Reach for More –

I straighten the Rugs

And change the Sheets –

Fluffing and folding –

Keeping the Mice at Bay

Did I say Mice?

Hooray!

My Coach is on the way.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Resonant Eagle/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 27

7 Men

Blue Resonant Eagle

Red White Blue Yellow

Such are the Colors

Of the Medicine Wheel

Such are the Colors of Humankind

Red White Blue Yellow

East North West South

Such are the Cardinal Directions

Such are the Faces of the Wind

This Cosmology heals

With strong Medicine –

When each has Dignity

 All are heard

Red White Blue Yellow

Brothers and Sisters we –

Denizens of the Medicine Wheel

Each is necessary for all to Heal.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/27/2019 White Rhythmic Wizard/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 26

6 Ix

White Rhythmic Wizard

(New York City Suite)

 Cacophony of Horns

Movement – Motion

Rapid Restless

Traffic –

Monument to Materialism

Temptation – Seduction

Greatness of Possibility

Possibility of Greatness

 Choices – Changes

Losses – Gains

Solid – Intense - Gray

Concrete testimonies to Genius

Architecture – Fashion - Art

Finance – Efficiency – Economy

And above all else –

Ambition.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/26/2019 Red Overtone Skywalker/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 25

5 Ben

Red Overtone Skywalker

Wherever Eros flies

There, too, are nine

Daughters of Zeus

And Mnemosyne*

*Mnemosyne: Cultural memory in Greek mythology; also the mother of the nine Muses: Kleo; Thalia; Erato; Euterpe; Polyhymnia; Calliope; Terpsichore; Urania; Melpomene.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/25/2019 Yellow Self-Existing Human/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 24

4 Eb

Yellow Self-Existing Human

You touch my Thigh

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

5/24/2019 Blue Electric Monkey/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 23

3 Chuen

Blue Electric Monkey

Invade my Soul – Dear 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 –

 Quantum Grace

Magnetic Field

Celestial Deity.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/23/2019 White Lunar Dog/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 22

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 Realm of Mediocrity

Cradled by sweet Reason my Soul

Reclaimed 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 the shallow Light behind your Eyes

I lay shrouded in Deception

I stumbled then but will again arise.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Magnetic Moon/ Spectral Serpent Moon of LIberation, Day 21

1 Muluc

Red Magnetic Moon

Sweet, sacred Moon –

As the Sky turns Pale

Trading black for blue

The Stars and I

Adore you

Eastern Mountains hide you

Trumpets herald not this Dawn

But Animals hail you

And Children shout

As you climb –

Brighter than Belief

Like another Sun until

You are wholly above us

Ascending – sending down

Bright Beams of white –

The Rim of every Hill shines

As Convex Aureoles alight

I thrill that still

You deem us worthy

 Of your clear

Quicksilver Blessing.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Cosmic Star/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 20

13 Lamat

Yellow Cosmic Star

Klotho*- spin your golden Thread

Upon the silver Star

At the Center of my Forehead –

Open wide my virgin Vein

With New Moon’s

Sickle – Scythe

Call forth the Poetry to arise

Like Pegasus** from Medusa***

Wingèd – beautiful and wise.

*Klotho: The first of three Fates or Moirae in Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.

**Pegasus: A white, winged steed who sprang from the beheaded body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and poetry.

*** Medusa: A queen of ancient Lydia whom the goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Crystal Hand/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 19

12 Manik

Blue Crystal Hand

The winter lives

In Death’s apparent frozen Sleep –

Dreamless Days march one against another

Like Soldiers gone to Battle

Each fiercer than its Brother

The layered Depths of Frost

Upon a lifeless Tree

Assume a Chill of Loneliness

In Nature’s vast Decree

Of Dormancy and cruel Duress

The Cycle of a Season’s Rest –

The Time when all Things lay

Beneath sweet sugared Snow

Which knows no Corner

Where it cannot go.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/19/2019 White Spectral World-Bridger/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 18

11 Cimi

White Spectral World-Bridger

Death, surround me now

I swim in the Underworld

Lower than Low –

Down to the Depths

Of Darkness –

I go to Xibalba*

Nothing

Is there

But the Ache

In my Heart.

*Xibalba is described in the Maya sacred text, Popol Vuh, as a court below the surface of the Earth associated with death and with twelve gods or powerful rulers, known as the Lords of Xibalba.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/18/2019 Red Planetary Serpent/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 17

10 Chicchan

Red Planetary Serpent

As she melts upon my Tongue

I swallow down the full Moon whole

She settles in my Belly while

I drink the Wine of Kingdom come

She takes a silver Ride inside

Where Flesh had been until

The container of a woman’s Life

Fell beneath a Surgeon’s Knife

Scalpel cut the Sinew and the Nerve

Creating open Space –

My Womb is in the Tomb

But even more is in its Place

My Progeny are Prose and Poetry

Conceived in the Soul by Night –

Infants unnumbered are borne

On a bright shining Beam of blue Light.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Solar Seed/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 16 Seli

9 Kan

Yellow Solar Seed

Clouds float by

In grand Procession –

Pillowing - Billowing

Mountainous Wisps of white –

Stately Fortresses of Mist

Kissing the blue Sky

Shape-shifters all

Turning Light to Shade

Eclipsing Sun – Moon - Stars

Silently they pass en masse

Carrying all to Heaven.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/16/2019 Blue Galactic Night/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 15

8 Akbal

Blue Galactic Night

In the Midnight Fire

Of winter’s second Moon

I rise again

To ask for Blessing

In the Midnight Fire –

A full Moon blazing

All Fear dissipates

In a Prayer for Love and Peace

In the Midnight Fire

Of the Midnight Hour

My heart’s Wing

Reaches to embrace my Beloved

The full Moon burns 

In a midnight Sky

Far Stars shine twice bright

Each tear Turning

To a Pearl of great Price. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/15/2019 White Resonant Wind/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 14

7 Ik

White Resonant Wind

I hear a Call

From the Western Gate –

From Roses on the Vine

Lightning flashes from Head to Toe

Settling in the Belly –

The slow Burn of wild Desire

I feel a Call

Lifting me out of the Desert

Out of the Dark - into the Wind

Gone the dry Weeds

Gone the burning Sun

Through me, a cool Breeze rises

I know this Sound

I’ve heard the Call before

Before the Locusts ate my Life

Now clear Water flows

I’ve reached an Oasis

My Thirst is sated

My Hunger ceases.

©Kleomichele Leeds