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.
Flood tide fills the coves and beaches, with sunlight bright on a calm sea. Beauty enters the hollow places, bringing peace to heart and mind as hunger vanishes. The glow of dew on fresh grass, rich mosses in tricolor green, and quiet presence of the earth form a holy rosary,
Sun and stars bathe the Earth in light, illuminating the soul in morning solitude and sacred dark. We journey through cosmos gathered in this embrace, an ocean-blue jewel. Silence the guns of war, hush the violence of belief. Let the Earth be an altar where the pure in heart come
In the still morning the sound of whale’s breath, geese in flight, fog horns in the distance. Close as always the comfort of silence and practice of grief. Angels appear with a birth wail, then depart in a last shudder; the world a tide flowing on without regret. Having written
