2 Etznab
White Lunar Mirror
To Heaven by Degree
Tonight’s Moon rises
Over the Skyline
Above Earth’s Horizon---
By Nature’s Decree
Tonight’s Moon rises---
Her Course clear and sure
Charted---specific
From this I take Comfort
More than random---Life
More than fleeting---Joy
Sorrow---Nevermore.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Caban
Red Magnetic Earth
Like frozen Field
Or brittle Leaf---
I fold into my Self---
Surface Life recedes
Falls far away and deep---
Sparks fly faint and blue
Too weak for Light or Heat
Frost rustles underfoot
Grasses bend and break---
A Shroud upon myself I take---
Infinity curls within
My Shell---
Eros hides
Inside
Great granite Cliffs
Belie a Planet full of Life---
Her Crystal Core
Pulls the Moon around---
Directs the Seasons
And the Treasons
Until the Sun returns.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Men
Blue Crystal Eagle
My Heart is fragile
Agile in her Musing---
Full of Adhesions
Doubt, Fears, and Reasons
To withdraw---
I learned to love on a Battleground
Where volatile Mines
Were set down to trip
Me into Conformity---
I lost small Pieces of my Mind
In Hell-bent Skirmishes out of the Blue---
Always poised to defend myself
I danced with the Devil on the Front Lines---
Resistance sent me Underground
But the Devil claimed his Due---
I laid down my Soul in Surrender
To a Power I hardly knew---
I lost that Battle but won the War
Therein lay my Victory---
When I died to Death my Life was born
My Story began telling me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Ix
White Spectral Wizard
It isn’t that we quarreled –
Or fought with sharpened Tongue and Fang
Or clawed our Way through Tunnels full of Gloom
Together
No fuming Rage or Thunder
Tore apart our Hearts---
Eros stood silently at Bay
Peeking in on us---standing on Tip-Toe
Watching as we mocked Love’s Glory---
Imitating the sublime State
We moved simultaneously toward
And against one another---
The Possibility of US did not
Dawn in Flashes of bright Light---
You spoke of Rockets, saying
“I need others as well as you---
Another instead of you.”
There are Burdens you carry
Awkwardly against your Will
Away from me, you turn
Even while approaching---
You balance self-consciously
In order not to fall or disturb
A precarious Equilibrium
Being January’s Child
I know the two-faced god
Of Ambivalence---
Janus is false fashioned
As you are rudely fake
You give and then abruptly take
Away---
I had little Time
To test the Truth---
To run the Gamut of Emotions
Bequeathed to me
As crown Jewels---
I chose a simple Stone
Of Disenchantment---
I now deny false gods---
Declare that I will repair
The bruised Heart within me beating---
The Decision is mine
To make without you
Even as I have been
With you
Awareness dawns upon
Waves of Consciousness---
The rhythmic Swell of Knowledge
Builds the natural Bridges of my Soul---
Only forward does my inner Eye direct
As I acquaint myself with myself again---
Without you.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Ben
Red Planetary Skywalker
Faster than the Speed of Light
We travel Side by Side---
Deeper than the Sky at Night
Love’s Arms reach in to guide---
From now to then and back again
Ensconced from here to there
We fly above all Doubt and Pain
Past all concerns or Care
The newborn Moment is our Carriage
Dressed in Gold and Silver Time---
Guarding well the Oath of Marriage
Floating on the Wings of Rhyme---
Sails of deep Devotion direct
Our Ship of State---
Trimmed to perfect Destiny
The favorite Child of Fate.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Eb
Yellow Solar Sun
Born into Ignorance
I serve only Truth---
I follow a golden Light
Into the Origins of Time---
I am the numinous Feminine
In a collapsing World of Men
Initiated into false Values
Fallen Wisdom---devious Lust
But I am Love itself---
The Life that sings
I am Eternal---Infinite
I am the Sacred in all things.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Chuen
Blue Galactic Monkey
Galactic Monkey’s Vision
Pierces Maya’s Veil---
That which is solid
To our Senses
Is in Fact Illusion---
For beneath the Surface
Of third-dimension’s Duality
Shimmer Realms of the Absolute---
In unified, glorified Wonder
We have lived so long
In the materialized, mechanized World
We are hypnotized ---
Mesmerized to Sleep
Deep in the Consciousness
Of Self-realized Samadhi
We perceive with Cosmic Vision
The sacred Unity of Life
From One we were born---
To One we re-turn.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Oc
White Resonant Dog
Within my Soul there
Shines a Diamond
Point of Purity---
Where Love abides
And Life sings on forever.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Muluc
Red Rhythmic Moon
Of a new Mother
Am I now born---
Re-born and born again---
Of the Triple Womb
Of the Rhythmic Moon
Life---Death---Life---
Triple Goddess---
Original Trinity---
Original Blessing.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Lamat
Yellow Overtone Star
Thou art a Star
Unbound---Uncontained
By Pain or Fear
Fed by a Mind invincible---
A Spirit moved and moving---
Thy Soul is a living Wonder---
Steeped in Anima’s Glory
Strong as a Lion’s Roar.
©Kleomichele Leeds
Blue Self-Existing Hand
