Passion's Refrain

by Y. M. Roger

The author has placed a warning on this post for sexual content.

It’s funny how a simple song
Can shatter walls so long forgotten:
A Blue familiar melody
Recalls the hot, sweet smell o' cotton…

You were temptation, were you not?
With choc’late eyes and whisky voice
That poured like rain and hypnotized,
Vanquishing all conscious choice…

How Eric Burdon’s Steam Roller
Over-pow'rd our loud A/C,
Your arms, your body – they owned mine
As wanton need drove us crazy…

No sound will ever touch my soul,
No passion ever reach so deep,
As your bellow of release
Joined with my shout of ecstasy…

Those walls went up when we both walked,
Packed up the Blues for bigger dreams,
But even now that simple song
Bears cotton’s scent and passion’s screams…

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The challenge is to write a poem that includes the words provided. Your poem can be of any type.

The words:

rain - steam - bellow - song

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Eric Burdon (and Jimmy Witherspoon) are Blues vocalists/guitarists. Here's a link to their collaborative hit Steam Roller (from their album 'Black and White Blues') featured in the poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_e7L9_9n8o

A/C is the term commonly used to shorten Air Conditioner.

Image of 'Fierce' by Ash Hussein at fineartamerica.com.

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