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H. Hennenburg: human being, lover of truth and wonder, poet, woodworker, general serial craftsperson, traveller AND homebody, loves her family and friends (including the furry ones) and cherishes the great good fortune of having them.

Amid The Trees

Posted on 12 June 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Amid the Trees

Autumnal winds blew this summer’s day
And my hands worked to take the form of you
Oh creator, how I felt you in my bones
The elements of creation stacked up to the height of me
A frame falling short
But rising
Rising when you whispered my name
The one the trees gave to me
The day you gave me to the trees
Rising as their leaves chattered
Bracing for the fall
Already on this summer’s day
Hands working to create
My body ached
And you stood quiet amid the trees

© H. Hennenburg, 6 June 2021

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Life Unto Life

Posted on 16 April 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Life Unto Life

A seed is planted in my mind
Cracked open just enough to sprout
Awaiting the journey from hull to sunlight
It is a grand thing – this bloom in situ
Encased in idea
On a precipice of potential
Red and gold dusting the edges of desire
Desire that coaxes and yearns and unites
Life unto life

© H. Hennenburg, 13 April 2021

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Deed

Posted on 3 April 20213 April 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Deed

Everything awakens
As the hours grow long
The air thick with song
My intolerance of windows closed
Against the sound
Recoils and rebounds in me
Until finally the wound must open
The hole in the wall afforded its dignity
Will you give to me the same?

© H. Hennenburg, 3 April 2021

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Arboreal

Posted on 20 March 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Arboreal

I, Animalia
Weary on forest floor
Eyes sweeping the canopy
For jagged shards of light
Your black relief of limbs
Stretch into the all-directions
And I am made simple by my wanting
Only for this life exchange
Only for your reach
As I exhale

© H. Hennenburg, 27 January 2021

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Truth to Sea

Posted on 13 March 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Truth to Sea

I am in your depth
Swallowed whole by my need for you
Embarrassed by my longing to breathe
When you have supplied all
Everything that lives, indebted to you
Even the light rejoices to touch you
And we, barrelling toward surrender
Quarrel over our follies, but I,
If there is such a thing,
Give you my last drop of truth

© H. Hennenburg, 7 March 2021

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Dumbstruck

Posted on 7 March 20217 March 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Dumbstruck

The questions die on my lips
There is nothing left but to wait
So odd a creature
Struck dumb
By all the space between
What can be known
And what is truly at the heart of the matter

© H. Hennenburg, 5 December 2020

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Revocation

Posted on 21 February 2021 by H. Hennenburg
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Revocation

My mystery is a pedestrian thing
Millennia in the making
Unrecognizable, cloaked in tedium and repetition
You would not trade your worst habit
For the great reveal
And so concealed in plain sight
I shall remain
Light creeping over my shoulder
To reclaim the life it gave
When you weren’t looking

© H. Hennenburg, 30 January 2021

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A Conversation With Khaya Ronkainen

Posted on 30 September 202030 September 2020 by H. Hennenburg
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Khaya Ronkainen: Conversations With Poets (Book cover painting by @ArtChiu)

It isn’t every day someone you respect and admire invites you to participate in an interview about your book on their blog. Last month, I had that honour! Khaya Ronkainen and I had an in-depth conversation about the meaning behind some of the poems in my new book Riders of the Tempest: The Story of We. We also talked about some works by BIPOC poets and songwriters in the wake of the Black Lives Matter Movement as well as writing in the time of COVID-19. The interview is online at Khaya Ronkainen: Life in Verse, Prose & Visuals! Thank you, Khaya, for promoting poetry, thought, connection and human kindness. If you don’t already follow Khaya’s blog, do treat yourself!

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Miracles

Posted on 23 August 2020 by H. Hennenburg
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Miracles

Miracles touch down with
Lightening bolt ferocity
And hover languid
Unseen
They masquerade as the mundane
They ride waves of light
And waves of destruction
They are pronouncements of life
The language of consciousness
Pushing its inscrutable agenda
Despite our weary protests
And bleary eyes
Our delicate, deafening cries
And our rapt supplications for more

© H. Hennenburg, 21 February 2020

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Last One Standing

Posted on 16 August 2020 by H. Hennenburg
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Last One Standing

I see you
Living some hard truths
But living
Knowing that light creeps in
When injustice is done
Drawn to the will of the one
Who goes on loving
Because light attracts light
And love is uninjurable

I see you
Drowsy with pain and indignity
Bearing the weight…again
Leaving the door open
For the light to creep in
Because it is beyond your assailants’ reach
No matter how deep they are willing to slide
They don’t know what you can abide
And what you won’t

I see you
The truth in you alights the truth in me
Unites the will of love to be
The last one standing

© H. Hennenburg, 10 August 2019

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There is no “I”. There is no “you.” There is only WE. “Reality is in the possibilities,” and Riders of the Tempest is a quest for the heart of what can be.

This collection of poems by H. Hennenburg tells the story of WE. Born from Supernova, we bear the imprint of the universe: the mandate to expand. Gripped by a deep yearning, we march into a tempest…a great storm…a war between our desire to expand as individuals and our desire to expand into the truth of our oneness. We believe we are mere “echoes to the sea and gathering storm,” but there is more to the universe than what we see. We are “more than the caged experience of sight.” Endowed with an infinite stream of choices, what happens in our story if we reach for more?

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