7 Caban
Red Resonant Earth
I set down
A Ring of Fire
The Bone
The Feather and the
Cone
My Territory mark –
I lay down to wait –
Still – until
You crossed
The confines
Of my Heart
The Ring of my
Wondering
The Ring of my
Wandering
You braved the Limits
Of my Rage
My Childhood died –
Fear fell as well
True Love spoke –
Broken was the Spell.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Men
Blue Overtone Eagle
Persephone’s Song
Lord of the Underworld –
You captured me, abducted
Overwhelmed and took me down
Down to Darkness and Chaos
Down to the Soul of Night
Down to your Kingdom below us
Down where there is no Light
To the Land of the Dead –
Shades of long ago and
might-have-been –
Where Obsessions rule, Ghosts live
Old Sins revive and breathe again
Ignorant was I in the Ways of
Seduction
Masquerading as Love – perfect Prey
For the rapacious Wolf of Desire
The Eagle of Transformation
In your long gray Chariot
You came for me inevitably
Now am I Queen of the Underworld
Now am I Priestess of Mystery
When Innocence is Violence bound
Then is a Maiden lost –
And there a Myth is found.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Men
Blue Overtone Eagle
Persephone’s Song
Lord of the Underworld –
You captured me, abducted
Overwhelmed and took me down
Down to Darkness and Chaos
Down to the Soul of Night
Down to your Kingdom below us
Down where there is no Light
To the Land of the Dead –
Shades of long ago and
might-have-been –
Where Obsessions rule, Ghosts live
Old Sins revive and breathe again
Ignorant was I in the Ways of
Seduction
Masquerading as Love – perfect Prey
For the rapacious Wolf of Desire
The Eagle of Transformation
In your long gray Chariot
You came for me inevitably
Now am I Queen of the Underworld
Now am I Priestess of Mystery
When Innocence is Violence bound
Then is a Maiden lost –
And there a Myth is found.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Ix
White Self-Existing
Wizard
Now the pounding Heart
Breaks open – broken
Into the Soul’s Ear –
Artilleries and Armies
Lob thunderous Volleys
Every Form of Fire Power
Sheds every Form of Blood
As Within, so Without
As Above, so Below
How…
When…
Where…
Peace?
NOW!
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Ben
Red Electric
Skywalker
Here lives Language beyond Language
Silent Sound
Subtle Music
Here lives Knowledge beyond Knowledge
Perception – Belief
Signifying Illusion
Here lives Space beyond Space –
Infinite Beauty
Peace and Grace
In Time beyond Time
Eternity flirts and lifts her Skirts –
All Souls unite
Measure beyond Measure
Marks the Love I feel
Love unfailing – brave and bold
Treasure beyond Treasure
Invaluable – inviolate
At the Center of my Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Eb
Yellow Lunar Human
It was an August Moon that wed us –
Led us far beyond the Night
A billion Stars were Witness with
An incandescent Light
This lunar Lamplight cast a Spell –
We traveled through an Aureole
To a secret dreaming Place
Held close in fond Embrace
Down an Aisle of liquescent Silver
Sea
Beneath the Moon’s quiescent Ride
The Ocean sent us where no Sound
lives
Save the rhythmic Murmur of the Tide.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Chuen
Blue Magnetic Monkey
We sail –
Along shallow Streams of Obscurity
Into wide Rivers of Mediocrity
Across tempestuous Seas of Humanity
Through black Storms of Loneliness
Until distant Shores of Bliss –
Find us.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Oc
White Cosmic Dog
This Love –
It is a Part of me apart
Although it dwells within my Heart
Sculpted in Mortality –
It is Immortal sure –
Far beyond the Boundary of Life
It does endure –
How can Life be ordinary now?
It is by Light infused –
Yielding such Vitality –
Its Radiance shines
And flies apace
The Passages of Time and Space
Conquering all Limitation
False Device and Artifice
Becoming infinitely fine –
Forever.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Muluc
Red Crystal Moon
Like a great golden Cup
This harvest Moon
Ascends - adorning
An eastern Sky
Seawater augments her Light –
Added to and multiplied
On surface waves at Night –
A Gown of scattered Gold
Into a silver Ball
As she flies she turns –
Into her western Bed –
Finally she falls.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Lamat
Yellow Spectral Star
Constantly inconstant
Moons shapeshift –
Keeping sacred Time
In perfect Harmony
Maiden Moons rise
With the Twilight –
Slender silver Curve
In a pale blue Sky
Round Mother grows
Shining bright –
Full Moon glows
In Gown of silver-white
Atropos* decreases
Light recedes –
Stars grow clear
A Gibbous Crone succeeds.
*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 Cosmic New Moon
Blue Hand
Passes over Land
Manifesting in its Passing
Perfect Healing
Accomplishment of
Knowledge
Complete Comprehension
Peace and Understanding.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Cimi
White Solar World-Bridger
The Work of Love
Unties the (K)nots
Which stifle us
And choke
The Work of Love
Cuts the Dust
From past Mistakes
And Pain prolonged
The Work of Love
Clears the Sphere
Of Shame and Blame
Sanctioning Forgiveness
The Work of Love
Polishes and perfects
The radiant Soul –
Reaching into Darkness
To Heal and Make Whole.
©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
I am la
Grèque ancienne
I am She –
Terpsichore.*
*Terpsichore: the ancient Greek Muse,
Goddess of Music and Dance.
©Kleomichele Leeds
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 the
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 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
6 Akbal
Blue Rhythmic Night
Up from the Depths
Through blue rhythmic Nights –
Floats an Abundance of
Dreams
Symbols and Themes
Redolent with Archetype –
Signaling Treasure
Cherish these –
For numinous are they
And Sacred
With Energy enough
To render whole
A lost or broken Soul –
©Kleomichele Leeds
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
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 oppositional aspects of soul and consciousness which must be reconciled before psychological wholeness is achieved.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Imix
Red
Self-Existing Dragon
Like Fish are we
Swimming in an
Ocean of Soul --
Sweet Holy Water
Surrounding us
Sustains effortlessly
Immanent Grace
Our Birthright –
From Sea to shining Sea.
©Kleomichele Leeds
