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.
Morning wind, white-capped waves. Autumn hues, brown and pale green, turning to earth, heart sprung open by wind and color. Reading of “Turning to Earth” with music by the Bill Evans Trio.
At sunup, a line of geese feed on the ebbing sea, soaked in light. With each new day of God’s imagination woven with awe, I lay an offering of pilgrim praise upon the earth altar. Bowing to the eternal like a lone goose in boundless beauty, I savor the tide.
Autumn drapes the coast with rain and heavy cloud. The yielding land, eased by cool air, drinks the sky’s soft blessing. I feel the rootward pull with daylight fading, evening drawing close. Nurtured by the dark, my soul embraces night in dreamlike mystery, while I weave an autumn tale, offered
