Meditations By the Sea: Poems

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Gail Rooke's first chapbook, "Meditations By The Sea", now offered in hardcover, includes all the author's poems from the original paperback. The poems address the natural world and the poet's place in it, or beside it, sometimes part of the world's flow and ebb, sometimes just watching. Her poems reflect her reverence for the natural world, her awe of its timelessness and dreamscapes, and her ache in witnessing that our human transience might well become the natural world's transience as well. The lyrical poems in "Meditations By The Sea" take the reader into and through that timelessness -- which is always present in the rhythms of the sea -- but not without reminders of our own human transience.

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A former journalist and copywriter, Gail Rooke has practiced as an elder law attorney for 23 years. In her work with the elderly and their families, she assists her clients as they navigate issues of loss, new roles and change, re-alignment of assets, and planning for end of life. She is the author of a blog on poetry, writing, reading, and legal matters, entitled Comma. Meditations By The Sea is her first chapbook of poems. In her poetry, Gail Rooke finds comfort in the dreamscapes which abound in nature, a sanctuary of sorts. Throughout, there is a reverence for the natural world. Images rise up and flourish, en plein air, painted by a voice that is personal -- sometimes a participant, sometimes an onlooker. The poems in Meditations By The Sea provide the echoes of the push and pull of the ocean, the two sides of meditation -- joy and grief -- and the reminder that there is a temporary synthesis humans must find, over and over.