Something Will Change Me Quotes

“Snow laden trees,
streets washed clean,
the timeless hymnal
open to the sky
in the deep throated
song of winter.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Each day I go to this altar,
emptying the night
bucket after bucket,
until I've space enough
for the morning.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“In the embrace of silence,
just me and a few words
waiting in the shadows,
loitering in the dark
like hungry lovers.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Down the narrow trail
to the sound of sea lions
barking their belonging,
we wandered into their world,
the one we thought was ours.”
― Don Hynes, 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.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Daring to raise my eyes,
I call out, a bird-like sound,
giving myself to this day,
abandoning desire
for all except you.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“I climb the vine-covered walls
using stillness as a braided rope,
and drop like a cat
into the garden of the eternal.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Something dark and unseen
breaks into awareness,
bursting like a mushroom
with the full throat of desire.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Let me rise in darkness,
be fed by morning silence
and choose each day to say yes.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“The tides of gain and loss
shape and reshape the world,
while below brilliant star fish
breathe in water,
turning salt and sea
to light.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Then we will not speak
nor write a single word
for on that surging tide
silence will prevail.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Holding to each other
we burn back the pressing dark
with the fire we've tended,
alone together beside the river,
quiet as the trees.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“There's a woman asleep
in the body of salmon
behind the jagged teeth
and furious jaw,
parting the river
with wild desire.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Like the ancients
I leave no trace
but the imprint of kindness,
left on the souls
I’ve dared to love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“Against the tide of violence
something spoken from the silence
like an arrow parting air
with the sharpened point of love.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit

“There is the land
green and rising
and there is the heart
empty of longing,
with room at last
for silence.
 ”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Soul and Spirit