Ebony Goddess

'Baila mi negra
al ritmo cadencioso
de la bomba y la plena'
drums sound in concerto grosso
from Ponce to Havana
in Barbados and Guyana
can you hear it?
Pum-kah-tum-pah-tum
leather and wood mark the beat
voile ruffled skirt bellowing
to the cadential scream
of the music playing
ebony goddess skin gleams
under the full moon's gaze
by the burning blaze.

Day 29

Bomba and plena are Afro-Caribbean rhythms born in the sugar plantations of Puerto Rico.

'Baila mi negra al ritmo cadencioso de la bomba y la plena' dance my black woman to the cadential rhythm of bomba and plena.