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.
The day arrives in sunlit glory: snow-capped mountains, landscapes rich with color, tidal seas chasing the moon. After years of toil and grief I turn and face forward in this unexpected seat on the train to Eden. Without pause for doubt I fill my lungs with salt-laced air and my
On wonder’s threshold with depths uncharted and horizons vast, forgotten to many the hymns of praise and whispers of worship, yet in quiet hours they stir in me ceaseless as the sea. Reading of “Hymns
Winds pick up, trouble the sea, clouds lower the sky. Where tide meets wind the sea rolls in waves as thought follows feeling. Silence sharpens the mind, stillness quiets the heart. Focused like a tree I gather the earth within, and silently I rise.
