9 Imix
Red Solar Dragon
Red Dragon turns
Circling the Earth –
Dimensional
Dichotomies sing of
Being and Becoming
Ordaining Birth
Death and Rebirth
Both Poison and its Antidote
–
Soul’s eternal Paradox in Time
Intention carries us
From Cradle to Grave
–
Love fills the Space between –
In Measures of Rhythm and Rhyme.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Ahau
Yellow Galactic Sun
Dear Heart
Find your Center
Your sweet saltwater Sea –
Clear and o’er-brimming
Sparks of Love
Burst into Flame
White Tears –Red dust
Black Sun in my Throat
Throbbing like a Shaman’s Drum
Through this Age of Chaos
When Centers give way –
They cannot hold
Boundaries collapse
And Walls also
Against this Gold alchemical
Within a Heart on Fire.
©Kleomichele Leeds
*Benedictio Fontis: Baptismal fountain used by the Roman Catholic church during Easter season.
7 Cauac
Blue Resonant Storm
I move away from
here to Her
Seeking inner Realms
of Power
Distant Shores of
Peace
Sometimes in the
Night only I am –
Forgetting – fearing
– crying to be heard
Until Remembrance
embraces me again –
I hear and then begin
to listen
I hearken to the
Voices in the Wind
Murmuring Sounds of
the Rain
Storms recede – I
remain
A celestial Mind in earthbound
Dream.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Etznab
White Rhythmic
Mirror
My Lord, thou master Artist of all Time
Draw us together - my true Love and
me –
Blend all disparate Hues with Line
sublime –
This Portrait mirrors our own Destiny.
Fill with Thy Light our Bodies in
this Frame
That we exalt Thy peerless Excellence.
Design within our Hearts’ eternal Flame
Allegiance, Balance, Faith and Reverence
–
Paint Joy and Kindness on a Canvas
clear
Assigning Form and Shape with expert Skill.
Allow a wondrous Palette to appear
Against Thy splendid Landscape of
good Will
Glory so great no Gallery can hold –
We spring to Life and break the ancient Mold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Caban
Red Overtone Earth
Mars spins crimson
Under a Solar Wind
Red hot
The Death of Mars marks
A Cautionary Tale for Earth –
A Story of Debts outstanding
The Asteroid Belt
Born Planet Marduk
Paid the Price
Earth’s Fate
Stands on the Brink
Of Karma unsettled
For Failure to transform
Fear into Love
Ego into Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Cib
Yellow
Self-Existing Warrior
Within the Psyche
Lives a Being –
The exuberant Masculine
Who believes in Good
One who is certain and sure
–
One who is wise
Unafraid of Death –
Some call him the Warrior Self
He is the Spirit Self –
A young Spirit
Who - regardless of Torment
Wounds and Exile –
Continues to Love –
He marks the Red Road
To Self-healing,
Self-mending –
He marks the Road to Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Men
Blue Electric Eagle
Blue
Night
Pales
in white
Moonlight
–
Blue
Snow
On
Branches
Sleeping
–
Blue
Dreams
On
Eagle’s Wing
Take
Flight –
Through
Stars
And
Planets
Beaming.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Ix
White Lunar Wizard
We must take Risks
To birth our Brilliance –
For then
The Angels gather
Seeds of Genius –
Planted before Origin -
Watered and fed
By Cries of the Heart –
A prodigious Life
Requires a Rupture
In mundane Existence –
When Kairos crosses Cronos –
Where Vertical traverses Horizontal –
Dance into Destiny –
Embrace Life’s Mystery
Drama and Agony –
Perform an essential Rebirth
Into Daimon’s Pattern and Veracity.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Ben
Red Magnetic Skywalker
Poetry rises like the Mist
Aurora
Borealis* at
the northern Gate
Streaming new Mythologies –
Sound and Light incarnate
Look to the Moon
Her constant Inconstancy
Power transformed
Enchantment embodied
Civilizations deconstruct
Nascent Nation-States
Buy and sell themselves
Into Oblivion
Single-eyed Wotan
Slouches toward Bethlehem
Like the Cyclops, Polypheme –
Beast of Cruelty and Mayhem
Listen to your S(elf) –
Your shadowed Soul
Singing to you often
In a small Voice soft
Attune to the Helix
Radio-sonic Matrix –
Song of the next Age
Spinning into Grace
Look to the new Time
A Vision that glows
On the far Edge of Destiny
Where the Tree of Life
Blossoms and grows.
*In northern Latitudes the effect is known as the aurora borealis (the northern
lights), named after the Ancient Roman Goddess of dawn, Aurora, and
the Greek name
for the north wind, Boreas.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
Yellow Cosmic Human
Just as Ignorance blossoms in Darkness --
Unbearable to endure --
So the Time of the Cosmic Human emerges
Transforming Intelligence into Consciousness
This new Being comprehends
Time and Space within Movement and Measure
Within the Cosmic Human beats the Cosmic Heart
Heart of Earth/ Heart of Sky
Extending Love to Earth and all sentient Forms
Far-seeing Sages, Philosophers, Mystics
Seek to lift the Mind of Humanity –
Cosmic Humans are these - from the Heart of the Galaxy.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
12 Chuen
Blue Crystal Monkey
Hymn to Melpomene*
She – a Being of Soul and
Wonder
Woven together and
torn asunder
By Love
In every Aspect
Scarred and veiled her
Heart
Out of Gold and
Silver spun
Broken by Betrayal
By Forgiveness Won
Compassion warms
Her pulsing Blood –
Drowning Sorrow
With a Song
Shades of Indigo
Shades of Blue
Life eternal – Life anew
Upon Beloved Earth.
*Melpomene: Greek Muse of Tragedy,
Singer of Lamentations, Mother of the Blues.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Oc
White Spectral
Dog
Above All, the true Heart
Liberation knows –
Its violet Flame
Glows in Grace –
Evokes a Sacred
Unconditioned Love –
Beneath this Light
Under the shining Sun
All Separation
ends
Dissolving into One.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Muluc
Red Planetary Moon
Learn the Language
Of the Moon –
A new Word daily
For Beauty and Love
The Day-Keeper’s Time
Marked in Poetry –
Nature’s Language murmured
In Rhythm and Rhyme
Galaxies sail
The ethereal Brine
Ships of colored Light –
Sacred
Design
My Classroom –
An ever-darkening Sky
Full with Intimations of Infinity –
Blessed Fruit
With silver Blossoms rife
Adorning the Cosmic Tree of Life.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Lamat
Yellow Solar Star
Sun
And Moon
Pyramids of Stone –
Heart’s Fire –- Dust
unto
Dust – Immortal Toltec
Gods
Creation’s ancient Glyph
& Tone –
Sacred flaming Gifts
to Quetzalcoatl –
Plumed Serpent –
Symbol of a Shaman’s Crown
I climb
The moaning
Wind to the Summit –
Phoenix rising from
the Ashes –
Past Lives renewed
and incarnated –
Who climbed these
Heights, never to descend?
Who
Has prayed
Here to gods of Fear
And Desperation? Echoes hum
Sung by Souls gone
long ago to Rest –
Gentle Patience pulses in silent shining Stars
Watching the dubious
Progress of Man –
How miniscule are these grand
Structures to the wide
Eyes of Heaven?
The Sun or
Moon?
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Manik
Blue Galactic Hand
Two wild Swans
Swim stately by
The northern Shore –
Symbols of a peaceful Soul
Realized and whole
Apparently a Pair
One female – one male
Calm and slow
Mark of the sacred Androgyne –
White as driven Snow.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Cimi
White Resonant
World-Bridger
I am a Poet
In a soul-less Age –
Relentless Rage
Intolerable Image
Rise to dim the Eyes
Of would-be Heroes –
I am a Poet
In a loveless Age –
Out of Time and
Place –
Where manufactured Media
flows
From Factories of Mediocrity
We Assemble
Like Beasts at the
Trough
Sensing imminent
Slaughter –
Who can hear
A Poet’s Voice amid
the Din?
Who will listen –
Who comprehend
The Depth of our
Descent
So close and soon
upon us?
The green, fecund
Earth
Unspeakably dear
Howls in Desperation
–
Wounded beyond
Recognition
We are falling
Off the Horizon again
–
Sailing over the
Edge
On Ships of Ignorance
and Fear.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Chicchan
Red Rhythmic Serpent
Transformation flows
Through Universal Water
Phoenix rises
From Fire into Air
Life Force quickens the Circuit –
Organizing Instinct
Endure!
Your Survival is
Assured.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Kan
Yellow
Overtone Seed
This song is for the Women
Who are left bereft
When Children, Brothers, Husbands, Parents
die –
Women of the War-torn World –
Some are killed and maimed –
Burned – stoned – raped - be-headed and
shot through –
Let us weep for those
Who live with Hearts torn apart
Riven into jagged wounds –
Wet with sacred Water –
Wet with tears of Grief
Weep also for those
Harpies of the Patriarchy
Whose Passion becomes Madness
When Logic gives way
And Violence holds sway
These Women are Women no more –
Lost in the Wasteland of a Land
undone –
A country like an aberrant
Adolescent, thrown between Extremes
Losing all Balance –
These women Shriek –
Unnerved by Insanity
They shout from twisted Mouths –
Hurling Insults and Epithets –
These are Women deranged
Unstrung – women who kill
Their young with prejudicial Poison –
Cry for these Hearts
Shattered - battered beyond Repair
Hearts living outside the Body –
Unconnected - broken - closed to Compassion
These are Women betrayed
Who petrify Men –
These Vaginae Dentatae* –
The blind Graeae* of one Eye only.
©Kleomichele Leeds
