White Spectral Dog/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 11

10 Ix

 

White Spectral Dog

 

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 –

 

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 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

 

Red Planetary Moon/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 10

10 Muluc

  

Red Planetary Moon

 

Learn the Language

Of the Moon –

A new Word daily

For Love and Beauty

 

The Day-Keeper’s Time

Marked in Poetry –

Nature’s Language murmured

In Rhythm and Rhyme

 

Galaxies sail

The ethereal Brine

 Ships of colored Light –

  Sacred Design

 

My Classroom –

An ever-darkening Sky

Full with Intimations of Infinity –

Blessed Fruit

With silver Blossoms rife

Adorning the Cosmic Tree of Life.

 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

 

 

Yellow Solar Star/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 9

9 Lamat

 

Yellow Solar Star

 

Sun

And Moon

Pyramids of Stone –

Heart’s Fire –- Dust unto

Dust – Immortal Toltec Gods

Creation’s ancient Glyph & Tone –

Sacred flaming Gifts to Quetzalcoatl –

Plumed Serpent – Symbol of a Shaman’s Crown

 

 

I climb

The moaning

 Wind to the Summit –

Phoenix rising from the Ashes –

Past Lives renewed and incarnated –

Who climbed these Heights, never to descend?

 

 

 Who

Has prayed

Here to the gods of Fear

 And Desperation?  Echoes hum

Sung by Souls gone long ago to Rest –

 Gentle Patience pulses in silent shining Stars

Watching the dubious Progress of Man –

 How miniscule are these grand

 Structures to the wide

 Eyes of Heaven?

The Sun or

Moon?

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Blue Galactic Hand/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 8

8 Manik

 

Blue Galactic Hand

 

Two wild Swans

Swim stately by

The northern Shore –

Symbols of a peaceful Soul

Realized and whole

 

Apparently a Pair

One female – one male

Calm and slow

Mark of the sacred Androgyne –

White as driven Snow. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Resonant World Bridger/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 7

 

7 Cimi

 

White Resonant World-Bridger

 

I am a Poet

In a soul-less Age –

 

Relentless Rage

Intolerable Image

Rise to dim the Eyes

 Of would-be Heroes –

 

I am a Poet

In a loveless Age –

Out of Time and Place –

Where manufactured Media flows

 From Factories of Mediocrity

 

We Assemble

Like Beasts at the Trough

Sensing imminent Slaughter –

Who can hear

A Poet’s Voice amid the Din?

 

Who will listen –

Who comprehend

The Depth of our Descent

So close and soon upon us?

 

The green, fecund Earth

Unspeakably dear

Howls in Desperation –

Wounded beyond Recognition

 

We are falling

Off the Horizon again –

Sailing over the Edge

On Ships of Ignorance and Fear.

©Kleomichele Leeds

Red Rhythmic Serpent/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 6

 

6 Chicchan

 

 

Red Rhythmic Serpent

 

 Transformation flows

Through Universal Water

Phoenix rises

From Fire into Air

 

 Life Force quickens the Circuit –

Organizing Instinct

 

Endure!

 

Your Survival is

 

Assured. 

 

©Kleomichele Leeds

 

Yellow Overtone Seed/ Cosmic Turtle Moon of Presence, Day 5

5 Kan

 

Yellow Overtone Seed

 

This song is for the Women

Who are left bereft

When Children, Brothers, Husbands, Parents die –

Women of the War-torn World –

Some are killed and maimed –

Burned – stoned – raped - beheaded and shot through –

Let us weep for those

Who live with Hearts torn apart

Riven into jagged wounds –

Wet with sacred Water –

Wet with tears of Grief

 

Weep also for those

Harpies of the Patriarchy

Whose Passion becomes Madness

When Logic gives way

And Violence holds sway

These Women are Women no more –

Lost in the Wasteland of a Land undone –

 

A country like an aberrant

Adolescent, thrown between Extremes

Losing all Balance –

These women Shriek –

Unnerved by Insanity

They shout from twisted Mouths –

Hurling Insults and Epithets –

These are Women deranged

Unstrung – women who kill

Their young with prejudicial Poison –

Cry for these Hearts

Shattered - battered beyond Repair

Hearts living outside the Body –

Unconnected - broken - closed to Compassion

These are Women betrayed

Who petrify Men  –

These Vagina Dentatae* –

The blind Graeae* of one Eye only.

 

©Kleomichele Leeds