4 Cimi
White Self---Existing
World---Bridger
Like Ice on winter
Roses
Or frosted Dew on
Grass---
My Heart Melts
Only the Stone
Remains in Place
Outside the Tomb
But like a Cloud
The Boulder floats
away---
She is risen!
The Angel in your
voice---
Its Tone and Timbre
Start my Heart---
A Resurrection of
Affection---
Wordless Communion
Reunion---Celebration
A past Affair---
After bitter Death---Life
Brought to present
Time
In Forgiveness---
Remembrance
And Gratitude
sublime.
©Kleomichele Leeds
3 Chicchan
Red
Electric Serpent
In Solitude
I journey down
To meet Ereshkigal---
My Sister dark---
My Shadow
Seven times she
Strips my Flesh---
My Veils
Bone alone remains---
If I survive
My self will die---
And while I mourn
My Soul will be reborn.
©Kleomichele Leeds
2 Kan
Yellow Lunar Seed
There is a Time of Year lies yawning---
Stretching the Space between Seasons
Days---Weeks of Promise when,
depending on the Solstice
We stand between cold Dread and warm
Anticipation---
There is a Time of Year that takes
the plant Roots deep---
Makes its Moves from inner Signals
Cosmic Calls of ice-filled Lakes---
Frost---Cold---Wind---Snow and Rain
Skies
of November resemble a Day in March
When Clouds give no Comfort or
Promise of Warmth
Finally, winter loses Strength---
A Seed begins its brave invisible
Ascent to early Suns too pale for warming---
Only Faith supports our Skin and
Bones
Now chilled and blue with Longing
For spring, the winter’s Damage to
atone
That Time of Year lay shivering
While we---like short-sighted Children
Burning with Desire cannot wait
For howling, whistling Winds
To blow away the old and bring upon
the New
The autumnal Days of early spring are fierce---
They tease and taunt without Remorse
That Time of Year too short to name
until---
Azure fills a Sky of cotton Clouds---
Jonquil Petals open with the Violet
Green Grass quivers with the Flights
of little Bees
Whose Legs are yellow Pollen laden
Daffodil sits up with Hyacinth upon
the Hill
The Moth awakes to fly on parchment
Wing
The Seasons turn---Gaia smiles---naming
Spring.
©Kleomichele Leeds
1 Akbal
Blue Magnetic Night
Sweet Sleep
Enfold me
Travel down
And hold me
To Thy Breast---
Long Night
Approach me
Overcome
And take me
Down to
Rest
Tall Dreams
Entrance Me
Free the Heart
To dance in me
lest---
Dark Fears
Besiege me---
Swallow down
And seize
The very best
Of me.
©Kleomichele Leeds
13 Ik
White Cosmic Wind
A Phantom have I
Lived with near a
Year---
An inner Voice---
A disembodied Face
A separate Self---
Beloved yet apart---
A ghostly Lover
Occupies my Heart
His surface Charm
Hides Depths unknown---
Deadly and immortal
both---
Wild Resentment grows---
Upon him, I projected
Every Wound and Crime
From Infancy Committed
Until present Time---
I fashioned there a
Hero
An insubstantial Soul---
But when I let him go
I saw
The Hero’s but my Self,
made whole.
©Kleomichele Leeds
12 Imix
Red Crystal Dragon
Stories within me
Lie sleeping---
For safe-keeping
I suppose...
With the swelling of
the Moon
Dreams layered into
Time and Space awaken
The Wild One within---
Recurring Patterns
rise
Interwoven Archetypes---
Paisleys of Divinity
Design a Woman’s Soul
As she quickens with
Destiny's Life Force---
So do We.
©Kleomichele Leeds
11 Ahau
Yellow Spectral Sun
The bluest blue Jay cries
To Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds
Whose tiny sunlit
scarlet neon Throats
Dance
In grand extravagance---
Otherworldly,
truly---
Huge
Crows dip low
Searching
for Breakfast---screeching black
Messages
from an unseen Underworld
Guided by the
gliding
Flying, dipping,
darting
Drumming, thrumming,
Hummingbirds---
Symbols of an
over-arching Wing---
Hints of a Time
sublime
When I too will
sing
©Kleomichele Leeds
