Goddess

 

Eyes dark and deep as nile nocturne
scorching as nubian sundance
this blackthorn rose
is the sultry jungle goddess
the secreted passion

fired in molten scarlet
forged of earthen bronze

she’s the blazing lust
of writhing music

she is smoke’n flame
black magic woman

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rob kistner © 2023

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Talk about music — this is music genius!

26 thoughts on “Goddess”

    1. Thank you True. I actually had the album “Mysterious Traveler” by Weather Report in mind. If you read the titles of the tracks on that album, you will see where I extracted many of the lines from my poem. Santana came to mind just prior to my posting the poem. The last three words of this poem originally were… my mysterious traveler.

    1. Thank you Dwight. Coulda been Donna. The gorgeous woman I chose to picture at thd top of this poem is Jourdan Dunn. Jourdan is a British model whose exquisite face has been featured internationally for many years.

  1. I haven’t heard the Carlos Santana version for a long time; I usually listen to the original Fleetwood Mac one with Peter Green. There is soe gorgeous iagery in this poem, Rob, especially ‘eyes dark and deep as nile nocturne’ and ‘fired in molten scarlet /forged of earthen bronze’.

    1. Liked them both, but fell extremely to the Santana version, because of the rippin’ percussion, and Carlos magic fingers, and angel choir sustain. I don’t know if uou realized it, but the version I posted with the poem featured both Carlos and Peter trading lead.

  2. Rob! Excellent!

    The poem, the pictures, the page layout and colors. And a big Hell YES! to Carlos and, of course, the song choice (even if not your first).

    If this was a competition, I’d declare you the winner.

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