This collection of 100 poems by Don Hynes resonate with the rhythms of crashing waves and towering forests from the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Hynes explores the rugged beauty of trees, rocks, and rolling waves through an intimately personal lens.
More than nature poetry, these are soul poems – borne of memory, heartache, and dream visions. They reach transcendentally across time and space to connect with the reader’s own experiences of change and self-discovery.
Poems that reach into lifetimes – past, present and those to be imagined, and in the tradition of America’s most enlightened poets such as Mary Oliver and William Stafford, speak in a quiet voice of your place on earth and the place you are preparing.
Clouds lie upon the island with the sound of foghorns and cries of geese. Somewhere hidden above sun and stars continue, while below I’m motionless as the silent trees. Fledgling in the nest of great mother, I sip at her knowledge, growing feathers for the flight to come.
Sunlight on a wind blessed sea, the earth green and alive in the ritual of everyday beauty. I practice silence with deep rooted trees, letting gravity of the timeless draw me within to the palace of the eternal. Ancient ones greet my presence, scrolls of my story lying in wait.
Putting faith in what passes I am abandoned, while the earth remains in green face shining. The dark of night and sweep of the tide, the temple of my heart as I care for the quiet. Sweep off my tracks, wipe clean the vessel. Whatever I’ve gathered I leave to
