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.
First light breaks, winds rise to rustle the sea. The sun sings awake, and over the broad expanse life stirs its deep green bed, as I turn over to the sound of crows and surging tide. My silent joy spills across the earth in waves of grass, alive with breath
Day breaks, sun casts color on the wind-rippled sea. Crows chatter and call, geese stir the quiet. The world wakes to bird sound and shimmering light as I reach into morning like a skyward tree.
The moon in pale brilliance tempers the summer sea, the blessed land in silent prayer, the lilting breath of all that lives. Upon the altar of the heart, stripped of conflict, the world resplendent in naked radiance. This night, crafted for song, lifts praise to the sky, as benedictions of
