4 Ahau
Yellow Self-Existing Sun
In a Plenitude of Solitude, I sing---
Throngs of Bougainvillea stretch
Scarlet into Desert’s Sky---
Birdsong and Sunlight abound
Clouds sail by
Stately, serene---
Hummingbirds hover in Tangerine Trees
Lemons hang ponderous
Bountiful and free---
Gifts from a Goddess to me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3
Cauac
Blue Electric Storm
Tall Trees
Slake a Thirst
Of which I’m unaware
Until there
In the midst
Of the Mist---
A Blanket of Leaves
Marks my way---
Lush Greens vibrate
Infinite in Hue---
Remarkably blue
Is the Sky---
Quietude and Solitude
My Allies strong
In the rendering of
Soothing Song.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
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 Fields
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
13 Cib
Yellow Cosmic
Warrior
I stand
Sentinel
At Thresholds
Sanctifying Godseeds---
Where Word
meets World
I hold Records
holographic
Cosmic
and Akashic---
Volumes
of History galactic---
Infinities
I span
Eternities
I wander
Mysteries I explore
Beyond
divine Dichotomies---
I am No
Thing
I am Now
Here
I live in
the Mythos---
Homeland of the Muses.
©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 each other
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---
Now I 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 breaks with
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 now serve only Truth---
I follow 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
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
Soul's Call
Repudiates Rest
Sounds insistent
Echoes---
An Unrelenting Cry---
A Disquieting Hum
Quivering
In the deep Heart’s Drum
Soul's Voice
Declines Silence---
Until we hear and
Then begin to listen---
It moves us
And behooves us to
move
Into the World---
Soul's Call
Summons Risk
and Fall---
Journeys
without Distance
From Fear into Love
Soul's Voice
Summons Vision---
Requires Variety
Ritual and Sobriety
In order to be
healed
Heeded and heard again..
©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
