Blue Overtone Eagle/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 11

 

5 Men

Blue Overtone Eagle

Song of Persephone*

 

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 Ways of Seduction

Masquerading as Love – perfect Prey

For the rapacious Wolf of Desire –

The Eagle of Transformation

 

In your long gold Chariot

You came for me inevitably –

Now I am Queen of the Underworld

Now I am Priestess of Mystery

 

When Innocence is Violence bound

Then is a Maiden lost –

And there a Myth is found.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

*Persephone is Demeter’s daughter, abducted by Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and forced to stay with him for four months of the year.

White Self-Existing Wizard/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 10

4 Ix

 

White Self-Existing Wizard

 

Now the wounded 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

 

Red Electric Skywalker/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 9

3 Ben

 

Red Electric Skywalker

 

 Language beyond Language –

Silent Sound

Subtle Music

 

 Knowledge beyond Knowledge –

Faith – Certainty

Through Illusion

 

 Space beyond Space –

Infinite Beauty

 Peace and Grace

 

 Time beyond Time

Eternity flirts and lifts her Skirts –

 Souls unite

 

 Measure beyond Measure

Marks the Love I feel

Love unfailing – brave and bold

 

 Treasure beyond Treasure

Invaluable – inviolate

The cosmic Center of a Soul. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Yellow Lunar Human/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 8

 

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  

Beneath the Moon’s quiescent Ride

The Ocean sent us where no Sound lives

Save the Murmur of the Tide. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Magnetic Monkey/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 7

 

1 Chuen

  

Blue Magnetic Monkey

 

Thy laughter is the Rush of Angel Wings

Thy Smile is the Sun on the Horizon

One Call from Thee and my Heart fairly sings

I pray the Songs and Words will ne’er be done

I see in Thee a Diamond Star of Night

Lending all its luster to a dark Sky

Forever brought from Darkness into Light

By Faith so perfect in its Alibi

I know and trust that you do love me well

For never did a Kiss reveal as much

In its magnetic Pull and tidal Swell

To realms of Peace, I flew with one fine Touch

 

May Heaven bless this Union wondrous fair

That none could ever separate this Pair. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Cosmic Dog/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 6

 

3 Oc

 

White Electric Dog

 

Patience he teaches me

Gentle Endurance –

Joy he gives me

Eternal Forgiveness –

Loyalty he shows me

 Love absolute –

 

My Spirit Animal

Healer of sorrows –

With him, I travel

Between the Realms

From Pain to Pleasure --

From Head to Heart --

From Coast to Coast. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Red Crystal Moon/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 5

 

12 Muluc

 

Red Crystal Moon

  

Like a  Cup of Gold

Half-Moon rises

Filling up

The Eastern Sky

 

Oceans reflect her Likeness

Refracted, added unto, and multiplied

Upon their surface Swells –

 Waves of Dark and scattered Light

 

Sailing through Night

She becomes a silver Goblet –

Descending slow into her Bed

When finally, She sets. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Spectral Star/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 4

 

11 Lamat

 

Yellow Spectral Star

 

Constantly inconstant –

 Moons shift Shape

Keeping sacred Time

In perfect Harmony

 

 Maidens rise

With Twilight

Slender silver Curves

In pale blue Skies

 

 Round Mothers grow

Bright shining in

Full Moons glow

Silver Gowns glistening

 

 Atropos* decreases –

Light recedes –

Stars intensify

 Gibbous Crones succeed –

 

Temporarily. 

 

 

*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.

 

©sKleomichele Leeds

Blue Planetary Hand/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 3

 

10 Manik

  

Blue Planetary Hand

  

Beneath the silver Eyelash

Of a Crystal New Moon

 

Blue Planetary Hand

Passes over Land

 

Manifesting in its Passing

Perfect Healing

 

 Accomplishment of

Knowledge

 

Total Comprehension –

Peace and Understanding.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Solar World-Bridger/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 2

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

 

Red Galactic Serpent/ Electric Deer Moon of Service, Day 1

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

 

Yellow Resonant Seed/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 28

 

 

Yellow Resonant Seed

 

Beauty’s Eye

Wide and Wise -

 Evergreen

 

Beauty’s Hand

Deft and Clever

Always Dancing

 

Beauty’s Mouth

Full of Praise

Soft and tender

 

Beauty’s Face

Shining – Ever

Full of Grace.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Blue Rhythmic Night/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 27

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

White Overtone Wind/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 26

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 afar –

 

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, the 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

 

 

Red Self-Existing Dragon/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 25

4 Imix

Red Self-Existing Dragon

 

Like Fish are we

Swimming in Oceans of Soul

 

This Holy Water

Serves as Home

Sustaining All invisibly

 

Immanent Grace

Our Birthright –

From Sea to shining Sea.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Yellow Electric Sun/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 24

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 Codes

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

 

 

Blue Lunar Storm/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 23

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’etre and Redemption. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

White Magnetic Mirror/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 22

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 Lattices 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  

 

Red Cosmic Earth/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 21

13 Caban

  

Red Cosmic Earth

 

 The blushing Earth

Turns shyly

From the Sun’s fierce Eye

At Dusk –

 

She spins through

Every Day and Night

Navigating

A rhythmic Equality

Of Seasons –

 

Patiently she organizes

Synchronic Evolution

Empowered by

The Universal Fire

Of Endurance

Under the birthing Power

Of the first Magnetic Moon.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Yellow Crystal Warrior/ Lunar Scorpion Moon of Challenge, Day 20

 

12 Cib

 

Yellow Crystal Warrior

 

One need not travel far to Dreamland –

Let the Thread unwind

In 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 Slumber

 

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 –

The sleeping and the waking

Tapestry and Language of the Night.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds