11 Ahau
Yellow Spectral Sun
The bluest blue Jay cries
To Ruby-throated
Hummingbirds
Whose tiny sunlit
scarlet Throats
Dance
In grand extravagance---
Otherworldly,
truly---
Huge
Crows dip low ahead
Searching
for Breakfast---screeching black
Messengers
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
10 Cauac
Blue Planetary Storm
Dismembered like Osiris
Am I---
Parts of me scattered
O’er Land and Sea
A Lineage of Gods
Precedes me---
Dionysus, Orpheus---
Every sacred King---
Where is my Beloved?
Is he forever gone?
Is he willing to re-collect
Me Piece by Piece?
Re-member me, my blessed Twin---
Redeem me out of Chaos
Into Order
Into Peace!
©Kleomichele Leeds
9 Etznab
White Solar
Mirror
(Museum Mycenae)
Golden earrings
Bracelets---Rings
Pendants---Diadems
Tissue thin
Inlaid with Jasper---
Red Carnelian
Vases---Bowls---Cups
Sacred Vessels
vibrate
With ancient Symbols---
Shells---Spirals---wild
Goats
Great Bulls---Cuttlefish
Rosettes---Chariots
Dolphins leaping
Marble Goddesses
Fresh white Flesh---
Alabaster Arms
akimbo---
Smooth---unbowed
Though Ten Thousand
Years they hold.
©Kleomichele Leeds
8 Caban
Red
Galactic Earth
Flown the Arrow from the Bow---
Gone the
small white Stone
Into a strongman’s
Forehead---
America now removes
Coils of
Limitation, Cruelty---
War and
Mayhem fade---
She rejects
Repeats of History
Fascism.
. . Corruption. . . Bigotry
An
adolescent Nation ripens---
Evolution races like the Stone---
Shock, Torpor,
and Denial lift---
Conviction
defeats the Unthinkable---
Action takes a Turn and strong---
The Arrow
finds its Mark
Consciousness
rises with the Sun
Stark Division
and Evil die in Washington.
©Kleomichele Leeds
7 Cib
Yellow Resonant
Warrior
“Cinderella”
I mop and sweep
I dust and weep
I scour, scrub and fill the Pail
I polish the Knives and Spoons and
Forks---
I’m thin and pale
From Overwork!
I wipe and wash
I dry and try
To make my rough Hands soft
I clean and iron
I hustle and bustle
To chase the Dirt away---
I am tired and mired
In Cobwebs and Motes
Floating in vacuumed Air---
I clean the Silver
Hang out the Wash
I bleach and then
Reach for More---
I straighten the Rugs
And change the Sheets---
Fluffing and folding---
Keeping Mice at bay
Did I say Mice?
Hooray!
My Coach is on the way.
©Kleomichele Leeds
6 Men
Blue Rhythmic Eagle
Gentle Breezes
Float on Pine –
Which Alchemy to subtle
Music does refine –
Thrumming Whispers humming
Make audible the Air –
Nature’s Instrument the Tree
Exquisite String and Bow –
Singing up to Heaven
The Glory here below.
©Kleomichele Leeds
5 Ix
White
Overtone Wizard
Thou art liquid Crystal rising---
Animated prism’d Rain
I am warm and flaming Fire
Burning in your watery Bower---
In tandem, do we represent
Extremes of Nature
Opposites in Temperament---
A Union most phenomenal
This wondrous Fount and Flame---
The Central Alchemy of Godhead---
Hippocrene* by name.
*Hippocrene: the fountain (of the horse) on Mount Helicon
sacred to the Muses, engendered by a stroke of Pegasus’ hoof; source of poetic
inspiration.
©Kleomichele
Leeds
