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Loving Light – haiku chain

I

All my life I’ve loved

beaches and the beauty of

being on the edge

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Where senses merge like

sex in sand and sky in eyes

we are everywhere

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Feeling a moment

like lifetimes of loving light

from intense shadows

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While feelings blur like

sea in sand and sky in air

we’re here everywhere.

II

All my life I’ve loved

beaches and their hot bodies

heating everyone

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(Save folks or times with

lack of lust for life in sex through

mood or age or choice)

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All my life I’ve loved

soft warm curves that turn things hard

tangling everything

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All my life I’ve loved

those days when outlines grow so vague

you shape in the flow

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Like waves washing worlds

that wishes made whole, oceans

smooth and connect us

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All our lives loving

beaches and bodies and love

make us all hotter

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And all our lives’ love

lifts us from life’s heaviness:

makes our lives lighter.

III

All my life I’ve loved

light, I’ve left darkness behind

when stuff got murky

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At dawn if things got

sweaty I might stay on till

stuff got cool again –

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– I get dark sometimes

too, we all do, but try to

leave darkness at dawn

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Omm

September 2020

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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.

1 Comment on Loving Light – haiku chain

  1. Unknown's avatar René Descartes // October 7, 2020 at 2:13 pm // Reply

    Your admirable words contain much wisdom and metaphysical insight into the nature of light and the fashion in which it affects us as mortal beings.

    In the past, I knew of only two sorts of bodies in the world in which light is found – stars and flame, or fire. I saw light as a disturbance travelling through the plenum like a wave through water.

    But you describe ways in which it travels through our human bodies.
    Your poetry stretches the senses of the possible…
    It is a wondrous thing to be a poet, to create new worlds!

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