An appreciation of the Performance of More Blacks, More Dogs, More Irish at Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne, 16th November 2022
Tag: Hope
a deep warm burnt orange (poem)
the smell of baking bread in a loved one’s farmhouse kitchen
welcome – rich – holding promise
perhaps a rusk as when we’re small
it sounds a silent gong like the sun at dawn
watches patient – speaks in light
it will always be
waiting to be found
A. H (20th February 2021)
manifest
tyranny breeds where it cannot be
as its legions freeze stuck in some dream
freedom breathes wherever it deems
the breath of a smile in love’s eye gleam
A. H / K. H-H (23rd November 2019)
for us all
daydream
yet still we hope . . . dream
as it ever was . . . ages countless kisses deep
as it ever is . . . new peak of three year olds’ dreams
at it ever will be . . . drinking tears
one day we will be free
free to let ourselves to be
understand wrong is close
still free dream
whoever you may be
really
K. H-H / A. H (19th October 2019)
VII (’19)
it’s obvious that i must turn to love
which brings a question — where to go
which brings a question in itself
solution sighted – on we go!
———
there must be an angel sitting near
unseen
holding dear all that we are letting go
careless carriers of our load
A. H / K. H-H (18th March 2019)
One Saturday
a matter of life and death
beach clear, duned
sky drift cloud blue
first warmth of sun
works strange deposits
whale shit soft stone
sandy meander alone
My essay, ‘What Attracts me to Poetry’, has been published by Disability Arts Online
Disability Arts Online have been kind enough to publish my article, What Attracts me to Poetry, which was originally suggested by the late Denis Joe O’Driscoll for his own website. The essay includes a handful of previously unpublished poems or unpublished online. My thanks to DAO and Colin Hambrook for this and as the article…
heart deep hope
leaf-light slumbers deep down
sleep deep and dreamy beating
life back parasympathetically
at harsh lit days
glimmer nest treasure light
what life may be
again
before it had been
(c) A. Hurford / K. H-H (28 November 2018)
one day they may tax waking
one day they may tax waking
from dreams they’ve already stolen
tolls only hide
cannot threaten
paradise
A. H / K. H-H (16th August 2018)
Locke (2013)
Locke w. & d. Steven Knight, 2013 BEWARE SPOILERS! I found this a very moving film. Of course it does move, or what passes for that these days, in that it is the story of a drive and a driver, Ivan Locke played by Tom Hardy. We see no other actors and only really see…
the presence of birds
the presence of birds,
Crow, Magpie, Thrush, Robin, sings
beyond the spoken
(c) A.H / K. H-H (24th May 2018) (photo too)
fragile
today’s clarity
that life raft swum for, clung to,
barely seaworthy
(c) A. H / K. H-H (22 May 2018)
searching certainty
searching certainty
in what’s done, blind to the rest
we may yet become
A.H. / K.H-H. (19/5/18)
true understanding
true understanding
unlocks all gates to my well
heartfelt compassion
A. H / K. H-H (8 May 2018)
In Process
hear this lament
femininity found
must keen a death
and yet, and yet,
and yet,
it is not death
and he’s in her heart
beats in her chest
one soul,
un-sexist
a full palette
found in
beyond
sex
beautiful morning
© A. H / K. H-H (2018)
a blind catch in the sun 