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# By The Shore
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/by-the-shore/
- Published: 2022-11-24T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-17T10:41:17.000Z
- Description: Whitecaps, eager, race to shore -- couldn't get there any faster; sand attempts to keep the score...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Whitecaps, eager, race to shore --  
couldn't get there any faster;  
sand attempts to keep the score...

Shells of pearl and alabaster  
dot the wild, abandoned coast,  
laid bare as an ossuary,  
and the wind, a mournful ghost,  
wails...

Indifferent, the waves hurry.