Yellow Cosmic Star/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 20

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 the 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 beheaded 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

Blue Crystal Hand/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 19

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

The layered Depths of Frost

Upon a lifeless Tree

Assume a 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

5/19/2019 White Spectral World-Bridger/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 18

11 Cimi

White Spectral World-Bridger

Death, surround me now

I swim in the Underworld

Lower than Low –

Down to the Depths

Of Darkness –

I go to Xibalba*

Nothing

Is there

But the Ache

In my Heart.

*Xibalba is described in the Maya sacred text, Popol Vuh, as a court below the surface of the Earth associated with death and with twelve gods or powerful rulers, known as the Lords of Xibalba.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/18/2019 Red Planetary Serpent/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 17

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 container of a woman’s Life

Fell beneath a Surgeon’s Knife

Scalpel cut the Sinew and the Nerve

Creating open Space –

My Womb is in the Tomb

But even more is in its Place

My Progeny are Prose and Poetry

Conceived in the Soul by Night –

Infants unnumbered are borne

On a bright shining Beam of blue Light.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Yellow Solar Seed/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 16 Seli

9 Kan

Yellow Solar Seed

Clouds float by

In grand Procession –

Pillowing - Billowing

Mountainous Wisps of white –

Stately Fortresses of Mist

Kissing the blue Sky

Shape-shifters all

Turning Light to Shade

Eclipsing Sun – Moon - Stars

Silently they pass en masse

Carrying all to Heaven.

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/16/2019 Blue Galactic Night/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 15

8 Akbal

Blue Galactic Night

In the Midnight Fire

Of winter’s second Moon

I rise again

To ask for Blessing

In the Midnight Fire –

A full Moon blazing

All Fear dissipates

In a Prayer for Love and Peace

In the Midnight Fire

Of the Midnight Hour

My heart’s Wing

Reaches to embrace my Beloved

The full Moon burns 

In a midnight Sky

Far Stars shine twice bright

Each tear Turning

To a Pearl of great Price. 

©Kleomichele Leeds

5/15/2019 White Resonant Wind/ Spectral Serpent Moon of Liberation, Day 14

7 Ik

White Resonant Wind

I hear a Call

From the Western Gate –

From Roses on the Vine

Lightning flashes from Head to Toe

Settling in the Belly –

The slow Burn of wild Desire

I feel a Call

Lifting me out of the Desert

Out of the Dark - into the Wind

Gone the dry Weeds

Gone the burning Sun

Through me, a cool Breeze rises

I know this Sound

I’ve heard the Call before

Before the Locusts ate my Life

Now clear Water flows

I’ve reached an Oasis

My Thirst is sated

My Hunger ceases.

©Kleomichele Leeds