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First Altar
Drawn by a timeless signal, I’m caught in a tide of soul-deep gravity. I leave the stone church for the temple of origin— surrendering prayer to silent knowing. Delicate as moth, sturdy as rock, I make my way to love’s first altar. Reading of “First Altar”
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"This is a quiet, spiritually rooted collection, and it is stronger than I expected. The poems move through winter, light, tide, rain, and old age with a steady hand. Hynes clearly trusts his material, which helps. He does not crowd the page or try to"
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"What impressed me most here was the discipline of the collection’s architecture. Stranger to the Beautiful moves through winter, spring, summer, and autumn without feeling mechanically arranged; the seasonal progression becomes a coherent spiritual a"
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"Stranger to the Beautiful by Don Hynes
Enjoyed this book of poems for many reasons. Love the seasons in New England and he describes them as true as they can be. Love common things like water, snow, stones and so much more. Winter is my favorite month" Read more of this review » |
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Great storytelling An epoch story, with humor, pathos, even tragedy, and a brilliant “other world” that lures you in like only true magic can. |
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“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
“She's a gift, you see,
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
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― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
rare and precious
as wild grass
or heron in flight;
unpredictable,
beyond imitation,
gemstone perfect.
”
― Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit
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