4 Eb
Yellow Self-Existing
Human
You hold me---
My eyes close as I
awaken
To Feelings found
again
Love---Joy---Terror
Flood my Heart
Change is on the
Wing---
From Innocent to
Woman---
Psyche’s archetypal
Journey
Hidden like a Flame
beneath the Sea.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Chuen
Blue Electric Monkey
Invade my Soul, dear One---
Transform my Heart and Mind---
Let neither Fear nor bastard Thought
Deceive or me unconscious find---
Disperse thy Self throughout my Self
Each Cell a fractal Entity
Of Quantum Grace---
Magnetic Field---
Celestial Deity.
*Polyhymnia: One of the nine Muses, goddesses of poetic
inspiration, Polyhymnia serves as the Muse of sacred song.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Ik
White Lunar Dog
From Mansions
On the Moon
A second Impulse rises---
Emerging Grace
Holds Spirit’s
Breath
Duality cloaks Reality
Solid seeming – mostly Space
Where there was One
Now Two appear
Time from Timelessness begins
Fractals split Infinity
Informing Form---
Inhale---Exhale
Male---Female
One from Two is
born.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Muluc
Red
Magnetic Moon
I have stayed with you
And qualify, therefore, like Orpheus
To visit you in the Land of Death---
Your battered Defenses protect you still---
Hiding Grief and Pain unbearable
As you transform within a Cradle of Grace
I cover you as would an Angel---
With Love and sacred Wisdom
Your Wings are mere buds on your Spine---
Made supple by stretching and shivering
Like the hibernating Arctic Fox
In the winter of your Death
You reach for me, your Eskimo---
I dragged your screaming psyche
Into another Place---a warmer Space where
You might breathe again
I bear the ecstasy of Mysteries
Borne on the back of Agony---
The Price of Initiation.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
13 Lamat
Yellow Cosmic Star
Klotho*- spin your
golden Thread
Upon the silver Star
At the Center of my
Forehead---
Open wide my virgin
Vein
With New Moon’s
Sickle/Scythe
Call forth my Poetry
to arise
Like Pegasus** from
Medusa***
Wingèd, beautiful, and
wise.
*Klotho: The first of three Fates or Moirae in
Greek myth; she spins the thread of life.
**Pegasus: A white, winged steed who sprang from
the body of Medusa; patron of the Muses, goddesses of art and poetry.
*** Medusa: A queen of ancient Lydia whom the goddess Athena transformed into a serpent-haired Gorgon.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Manik
Blue Crystal Hand
The winter lives
In Death’s apparent
frozen Sleep---
Dreamless Days march
one against another
Like Soldiers gone
to Battle
Each fiercer than
its Brother
Layered Depths of
Frost
Upon a lifeless Tree
Assume the Chill of
loneliness
In Nature’s vast
Decree
Of Dormancy and
cruel Duress
The Cycle of a
Season’s Rest---
The Time when all
Things lay
Beneath sweet
sugared Snow
Which knows no
Corner
Where it cannot go.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Cimi
White Spectral
World-Bridger
Death surrounds me
now---
I swim in the
Underworld
Lower than Low---
Down in the Depths
Of Darkness
I float apart
From all I knew--
Nothing
Is there
In Xibalba*---
Only the Ache
In my Heart.
*Xibalba is described in the sacred Maya text, Popul Vuh, as a court beneath the surface of the Earth associated with death and with twelve gods or powerful rulers known as the Lords of Xibalba.
©Kleomichele Leeds
10 Chicchan
Red Planetary
Serpent
As she melts upon my
Tongue
I swallow down the
full Moon whole
She settles in my Belly
while
I drink the Wine of
Kingdom come
She takes a silver Ride
inside
Where Flesh had been
until
The Promise of a Woman’s
Life
Fell beneath a Surgeon’s
Knife
Scalpel cut the
Sinew and the Nerve
Creating added Space---
My Womb is in the
Tomb
But even more is in
its Place
My Progenies are Prose
and Poetry
Conceived in the
Soul by Night---
Infants unnumbered
are borne
On glistening Beams
of blue Light.
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Kan
Yellow Solar Seed
Clouds float by
In grand Procession---
Billowing, pillowing
Wisps of white---
Stately Fortresses of
Mist
Kissing a blue Sky
Shape-shifters all---
Turning Light to
Shadow
Eclipsing Sun, Moon, and Stars---
Silently they pass
en masse
Carrying Prayers on
High.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8
Akbal
Blue
Galactic Night
Life is a Dream
In Three Dimensions
By all indications, it is real and
true
Nearly every kind of Law
Attests to this---
What then is Sleep?
With its gossamer Dream icing?
What then are Miracles
Which break Laws of Time and
Space?
What are Angels and Acts of Grace?
The Metaphysical realm
Lives beyond Appearances---
Let us intuit Higher Law
Higher Dimensions---Higher Love
Let us live in the Realm of Soul
Where Time moves Vertically---
Where Dreams and Symbols
Speak Volumes to heal us
From our Fall into Duality
Our Fall into the Third Dimension.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7
Ik
White
Resonant Wind
I hear the Call
From an eastern Gate---
From Roses on the Vine
Lightning flashes Foot to Head
Settling in the Belly---
A slow Burn of wild Desire
I feel a Call
Lifting me from the Desert---
Out of Drought into cool Mist
Gone the dry Brush
Gone the burning Sun
Cool Breezes fly through me
I know this Call---
I’ve heard it all before
The Locusts ate my Passion
From an Oasis
Fresh Water flows---
My Thirst is sated, my Hunger gone.
©Kleomichele Leeds
