Meditations By the Sea: Poems

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.