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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I didn’t know we’d met 🙂
You left a lasting impression Jane… 😉
And when it comes to music you make me think of Cinnamon Girl
I’d love to live with a cinnamon girl… 😉
One of the hottest songs out there for raw lust:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxnpLqAWocI
Raw, the best kind Jade… 😉
I love the last two lines, and this: “sultry jungle goddess”
Thanks Rainbow! Jourdan Dunn is a goddess. She, and Weather Report’s haunting album, inspired this outpouring, I just sat back and let it flow…
Admiring the music inspired poem specially:
ablaze in the sensual dreams
of writhing midnight
I am glad you found this enjoyable Grace… 🙂
Ooh, I love the earthiness and sultry fire of this inspired verse — the passion and the elemental energy is suffused with the image and pigment of the coveted person.
HA, I appreciate your gracious compliment, especially after reading your contribution thr the prompt. The prompt was great, thanks for tge catalyst… 🙂
I’m with Anmol – earthiness and sultry fire! I love the use of shade and colour.
Kim, that is a fire ignited by the haunting music of WR, and the spectacularly gorgeous Jourdan Dunn… both are breathtaking to me…
Delicious imagery – does justice to the music and the ancient history of dark goddesses from Egypt and Nubia. Beautiful tribute – I love it when the arts cross-pollinate
That mind-stunning, breathtaking photo of Jourdan Dunn and that haunting Weather Report album put me in a very exotic frame of mind – from whence grew this poem. I am very pleased you like it Christine… 🙂 I had also been listening to Miles’ “Bitches Brew” that evening…
Lovely snapshot of a sensual beauty.
Thank you VJ, I am pleased you found it do… 🙂