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About Freddie Omm (15 Articles)
Writer living in Europe Grew up in Holland, the USA, Indonesia and the UK—a lifelong migrant and expatriate, a native of nowhere who’s written all over the world. Latest book—“Sicilian Haiku—Migrant Voices”—part of a poetic project to support refugees. First novel, Honour, idark comic thriller about how people in diverse cultures—east, west, multi and between—are driven and damaged by different conceptions of honour. Working on an extended series of books, the Dark Gospel, of which the next, a thriller, “The Trashman”, will be published soon.

2 Comments on when we make love a billion cells break free

  1. This is warmly sensual and playfully intellectual, like so much of Freddie Omm’s poetry!

    It plays with (and “teases“) the form of the villanelle, too: the form breaks free of its traditional constraints, the form itself becomes expressive of the content it contains and gives form to.

  2. Unknown's avatar Philippe de Saint Maurice // January 8, 2021 at 12:34 pm // Reply

    This is similar to an ecstatic expression of the thoughts of Krishnamurti at his best—albeit Krishnamurti was rather more reticent and circumspect on the plane of sexual bliss.

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