Yellow Overtone Star/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 23

5 Lamat

Yellow Overtone Star

My Soul is a Fire

Hot and wild

My Soul is a River

Like the River Nile

Full of Splendor and Story

Indifferent to Propriety

She glides through the Night

 From Hippocrene* on Helicon**

My Genius –

My Pegasus***

My wingèd Flight.

*Hippocrene (Fountain of the Horse):  A spring created when Pegasus kicked Mount Helicon, sacred to the Muses (goddesses of artistic expression); regarded as the living water of the soul as well as the source of poetic inspiration.

**Helicon:  A mountain in central Greece; regarded by the ancients as the abode of Apollo and the Muses.

***Pegasus:  The winged steed that sprang from the decapitated body of Medusa; symbolic of flights of creative imagination.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/6/2019 Blue Self-Existing Hand/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 22

4 Manik

Blue Self-Existing Hand

Tanka*

 Because you are now

Free to fly I shine, glisten

And glimmer like a

Clear, crystal Tear on the Tip

 Of your out-stretched feathered Wing.

*Tanka: A Japanese form of poetry comprised of five lines and 31 syllables: five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables respectively.

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White Electric World-Bridger/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 21

3 Cimi

White Electric World-Bridger

Bullies birth the Saints

Long suffering –

One Hundred and Four
 Thousand Years an Age

 Alphabet turns Hieroglyph –

And Cries of Grief to Song.

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Red Lunar Serpent/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 20

2 Chicchan

Red Lunar Serpent

Let us move our Mourning to Thanksgiving

Giving up Despair for second Sight

That we may count ourselves among the Living

Our Vision sees through Blindness to the Light

Between us many Obstacles arise

To block our Path of Faith around the Earth

But when at last we see with Spirit’s Eyes

The poison Snake of Sadness dies at Birth

Our Gratitude and Faith forever sound

In ringing Psalms of Memory and Praise

Beyond the Walls of Sorrow we are found

Singing Hymns of Joy for all our Days.

All Thanks to you, our pure and gentle Dove

Progenitor of Fealty and Love.

©Kleomichele Leeds

12/3/2019 Yellow Magnetic Seed/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day19

1 Kan

Yellow Magnetic Seed

Moving up and out –

In the here and now

Am I

Nor Shadow nor Shade

Nor Partner nor Maid

Am I

Whole and complete

Aware and replete with Wisdom

Am I

Unchained – unbowed – unwed

Free to choose – choosing Freedom

Am I

Fierce and mighty

Grateful and giving

Am I

Creating – destroying – preserving

All that comes to Matter

Am I

Daughter – Sister – Mother

 Woman – Friend

Am I

The Voice that in the End

Bridges Space between the Worlds

I Am.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Blue Cosmic Night/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 18

13 Akbal

Blue Cosmic Night

Into high Symbol

We go

As well as low  

Initiation transforms Soul –

Life puts on meaning

Like an Alice Blue Gown

But first to the dark Night

The Underworld of War –

Wotan’s* Ecstasy

This Wave of Time/Space crests

As Cataclysm transforms

Trinity into Quaternity

Hamlet becomes Faust

Descend then to the Mothers –

Sacred Goddess’ Diadem

Earth’s Mysteries prophesy

A New Jerusalem!

*Wotan: one-eyed Teutonic god with an insatiable appetite for war and power – symbol of blind violence.

©Kleomichele Leeds 

White Crystal Wind/ Overtone Peacock Moon of Radiance, Day 17

12 Ik

White Crystal Wind 

In and out

The Sea breathes

Herself awake

On morning Tide –

The Breeze –

A cleansing Current -

Crystalline Air –

Giving up Debris

In frothy Paroxysms

She bequeaths and leaves

Flotsam and Jetsam 

 Shells and more

Upon her polished Shore.

©Kleomichele Leeds