Today for dVerse Poetics, Anmol (HA) asked us to explore desire. I opted to be inspired by sensuous music. This piece was inspired by listening to my 1974 vinyl record album entitled “Mysterious Traveler”, by Weather Report. On of the most sensuous albums ever recorded. It sets the imagination ablaze!
Weather Report was one of the earliest and most influential Jazz-Rock groups. Keyboardist Joe Zawinul and saxophone player Wayne Shorter formed the group in 1971. Both originally members of the Miles Davis’ group, they were joined by the legendary bassist, ,Jaco Pastorius, making Weather Report a milestone group of modern music…
Nubian Goddess
eyes dark and deep as nile nocturne
scorching as nubian sundance
this blackthorn rose
is the secreted passion
the sultry jungle goddess
inscribed in the book of ardor
fired in molten scarlet
woman forged of earthen bronze
ablaze in the sensual dreams
of writhing midnight
she is smoke and flame
the mysterious traveler
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