Blue Solar Hand
Be brave – believe me – know me
For I am the
Bones of Life
Forming the Links--
Connecting the
Parts
I drink your
Tears
And from them
make
New Flesh--firm and warm
From this, I
re-create my Form
I use your
Heart -
Its
pounding, thrumming Drum
To feel the
Colors of Life
To dance and
sing my Songs
Life---Death---Life am I
Eternal turn
and Re-turn
I am the
Drama of Destiny
Your healing lies within Me.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
7 Cimi
White Galactic
World-Bridger
I am a Poet
In a Soul-less Age –
Relentless Rage
Intolerable Images
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
Red Resonant Serpent
My precious friend, regard me not
askance
Though I deserve your gaze, most
skeptical
I cannot fault you for your wary
glance
For of myself, I make pure spectacle
It is to tears my words one could
compare
Both flow in uncontrollable remorse
In composition, they so poorly fare
To express passion from its deepest
source
These words survive though tears do
disappear
Poetry at least puts form on feeling
But I do risk your mockery and fear
Trying to convince you of my meaning
Emotion, when translated to refrain
Loses too much but gambles more to gain.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Kan
Yellow Rhythmic Seed
Into the Light, she moves
From Darkness - from Chaos
Carried on a Flute and Drum
Her Fire transforms Water
Into Earth and Air
Music builds the Waves
Upon a Sea of Sound –
Dancer in the Mist –
Cymbals sing - Sequins flash
On quivering Feathers and Flesh
Joy floats upon her Smile
She lifts the Rhythm
From Hip to Hands
So full of Grace the Heart aches
In its serpentine Race to Soul.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Akbal
Blue Overtone Night
What is Magic
But empowered
Dreaming?
Strength to draw
Radiant Images
From Psyche’s Depths
Symbols flash--
Numinous Fish
Spinning in a dark Sea
Enough to feed
All starving Souls--
Cast your Line--
Wait for Symbol
Catch the Silver
Keep the Gold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
4 Ik
White Self-Existing Wind
Many a past Love had
passed over me
Those I thought true
became truly false
I lost all my Loves
in Loss untimely
To Lust’s illusory
three-quartered Waltz
Terrified of
Solitude
Friendship I bought
with purloined Emotion
Grief and Misery
rendered me numb
Grandiose,
aggressive, and rude
I starved and
thirsted at Fate’s great Banquet
Refusing to learn or
earn my Share
Finally abandoned by
all who knew me
I gave myself up to
Insanity
“Take me,” I prayed
to a god unknown
“Release me from
Hell on Earth.”
In Desperation I
then found
A Bridge of Sighs
over a River of Life
Part of me died –
the Fear and the Pride
As a Newborn, I
crossed the Bridge –
When at last I
reached the other Side
I perceived a Meal
most strange!
The Fare was
unpleasant, not easy to swallow
It stuck in my
Throat but nourished my Soul
Compelled to eat
without knowing why
I had Breakfast of
Crow and a large Humble Pie.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Imix
Red Electric Dragon
Twilight reveals
An amber New Moon--
Pale Cuticle--
Crescent Scythe
Low on the Horizon
Astonishing
Ethereal silver Bow--
First Feminine Principle--
Innocent Glow
She sings the Endings of
Things as they are
She sings of Beginnings
Cycles, Successions--
Inspiring Initiation into
World-Soul Transformation.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
2 Ahau
Yellow Lunar Sun
Prior to Sight comes Sound
Hoof Beats like Heart-beats on
Blacktop –
Horse and Rider bound
For Work or Home
Seeking Sustenance as the Sun
Reaches Zenith – sere and severe
Clip-clop/ clip-clop / clip-clop –
A Brown sorrel Mare moves into View
With a side-saddled Shepherd
shouting, “Yasu!”
“Yasu!
Î ÏŽÏ‚
είσαι?” I respond –
He tips his Hat to me
Finally, bringing up the Rear
In this Ionian Cavalcade
A creamy Labrador Retriever
Panting in Anticipation and Thirst
She knows that in the final Reckoning
–
The Last shall be the First.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Cauac
Blue Magnetic Storm
We sail –
Along shallow Streams of Obscurity
Into the wide River of Mediocrity
Across tempestuous Seas of Humanity
Through black Storms of Loneliness
Until the distant Shores of Bliss –
Find us.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Etznab
White Cosmic Mirror
Degradation of the Human Race
Reaches its full
Completion
In all of Nature’s
vast Display---
Variety and Beauty indescribable---
There is one Face
extraordinary---
Innocence made
visible
I sing of the
northern Infants
Slaughtered for
their Fur –
Such a Prize – such
a bloody Boon
For the Hunter
These Babes are easy
Prey
Too young to swim
away –
Heads shattered –
skinned alive
Left to die in Agony
In front of their
Mothers
Enormous dark Eyes
mirror
Man’s Inhumanity –
Cruelty – Insanity
Lifeless, skinless
babies’ Bodies
Thrown away to rot
Upon the Snow and
Ice
Now stained with Blood
and Gore
No More!
No More!
The Harp Seal –
Striking Beauty
In a barren Wilderness
Struck down - bludgeoned
to Death
For a Wallet or Coat
Beware! All who
participate
Beware! All who fail
to protest
The Slaughter of
Innocents
Goes not unpunished.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Caban
Red Crystal Earth
After its long Descent
Into Space/Time
Into Third Dimension –
The Soul sleeps
Encased in the Body
Set upon the Earth –
While Soul slumbers
Before its Holy Birth
Spirit’s Mission
Here on Earth?
The awakened Soul
Healed and whole
Like Dionysus we
Are twice-born
First into Body
Then into Soul
Consciousness rises
From Womb and Cross
Proclaiming Resurrection
The Truth and the Way--
In this sacred Union
Spirit joins Soul –
Love and Joy accomplished
Fear forever gone.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Cib
Yellow Spectral Warrior
Always have I been
A singular Woman in a World of Men
The Heroine summoned-–
The Rebel Soul grows--
Within the Heart
My Soul is twain
Weakling meets Warrior --
Conflict rises daily with the Sun
If Origin is Answer
Then into the Conflict run
Run toward the Light of the Son
Into the living Fire
Into the shining Sea
Into the widening Gyre
Transcend all Opposites –
Kshatriya and Brahmin grow
Into the Angels above--
Into the Angels below.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Men
Blue Planetary Eagle
I hold the Soul
Of a ruby Moon –
Planetary Eagle am I
In harmonic Blue
The red Moon of Prophecy
Purity – Fluidity
Elixir rare –
Wine divine
Transubstantiation’s Moon
Planetary Planet of Initiation –
Dimensional Ages Shift
From Three to Four and Five
The Love of the Christos
Flows this Time –
Anointing, Transmuting
Evolving through
The Revolving Door
Of Hunab K’u--
One Maker of Movement and Measure.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Ix
White
Solar Wizard
Down fell the Moon
To the East through the Mist –
A gibbous Half-Moon
Silver Cup glowing
My Heart awakened
Like a blossoming Rose
Luminescent – Transcendent
A bright Fire burning
Under Moon’s closing Eye
Into Love, I fell –
The Soul’s Enchantment
High Heaven – deep Hell.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
8 Ben
Red Galactic Skywalker
Skywalker red
Fly to the Moon
Tonight full in Libra
Tonight full in Love
Step aside Stars –
Skies – open wide
Amber Globe glistening
Shimmering bright –
Enough to brightest Silver
Turn by Midnight
Subtle Moonglow –
Silent strong Force
What Miracle keeps
This Sky Ship on Course?
©Kleomichele Leeds
Yellow Resonant
Human
For all the days
of all your life be sure
That my love
reaches you through time and space –
My heart limns
phrases of a faith secure
Beyond all doubt
– all fear it doth erase
Our spirits sound
a harmony divine
Transforming
sorrow into joyful song
Devotion grows in
manner strong and fine
To victory and
triumph we belong
In truth we rise
into realms eternal
Protecting one
another from all strife –
Bathed in wisdom,
bliss and light supernal
We pass through
death together into Life
Unchain thy Self
forever from all pain –
That our noble Spirits may be born again.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue Rhythmic Monkey
Moon-Song pulls us
Through life/death/life
Surrounding Bodies with Soul
Soul is paramount
Paradox and tantamount
To our blessed Destiny
Purpose lends meaning
To Life in this Mechanized Age
False Age, False Time, Wrong Ratio
Art alone unites
Anoints
Appoints the Angels
In our Midst.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
