when we make love a billion cells break free (villanelle)

when we make love a billion cells break free

our bodies flowing fluid like disgendered

creatures of great beauty growing unbound gloriously

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although we’re only human too and so quite ordinary

we spiral into plasmic dust as spores sprinkling our eggshell world

while making love a billion cells break free

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in some identities we hardly see

among us – beside, within, beyond us – enraptured,

creatures of great beauty rising upward gloriously

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like stars that gleam and glow in space and transiency

like birds in deep still forest undergrowth unheard

love is made perpetually so billions of our cells break free

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our love in life is that which lets us be

ourselves in an intensity of moments scattered

creatures of great beauty growing unbound gloriously

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we find new freedoms freeform ecstasy

now top and out of mind and sight no need for thought nor any word

when we make love a billion cells break free

like creatures of great beauty growing unbound gloriously

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griffith park

LA

moving


we humans stand alone and still in life until

love takes our hand  and kisses us and helps us walk and talk

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loveless, the passing hours through which all things must pass

stand still the days succeeding days stand still

and all is focused on ourselves alone

as if the universe herself is holding breath

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we humans stand alone in life until

one day we find our love and it is good

while loving lasts all lives are rich in joy

and come together we all taste the fruits of heaven.

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so can we forget a while that sometimes

a human stands alone in life until they fall apart in death

and make our wishes all come true with hope

and faith in love to keep us humans moving?

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freddie omm

venice beach

september 2019

essence

the imagination required to see

how life grows through a series of moments

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(at once selfcontained, static and timeless

yet flying yes swarming into infinity)

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like flocks of geese breaking from an amber

sunset into invisibility

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like summer nights fading in september

flown into those endless twilights of eternity

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where sensation is becoming to where

we run blindly into fresh horizons

fading as each sunrise into darkness

this warm fleeting intimacy we share

created from those moments is the essence

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freddie omm

big sur

september 2019

 

on ventura beach: haiku chain

ventura keys bay

ventura keys bay

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borne on a loose-tongued tide

when dolphins sang in our bay,

i swam alongside.

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i learned my english

in california, oh yeah –

surfing on meaning

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strange new kid from lands

far-off with paler beaches

i dug those endless sands

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west of ventura keys

soaked up the lingo in waves,

loghorreic seas,

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chilled long days drunk down

so deep, my first summer of love,

synaesthetized like

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a child of the sun –

honey-skied strands, peacemeal love,

kool-aid cookied, fun!

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like surf out of reach,

lyrics drift through smoke-tinged breeze

on ventura beach.

 

kool-aid cookies

kool-aid cookies

 

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