The Shoreline Ghost and other Poems

1. The Shoreline’s Ghost

The tides shall have been washing the ancient bones until the moon will have been forgotten by the stars which had originally screamed before the light was ever meant to be seen by us.

2. The Alchemist’s Regret

I would have been having distilled the silvered rain into a broth of yesterday if only the furnace shall not have been extinguished by the shadows that are currently having haunted the future’s gate.

3. The Clockwork Bird

It had been having sung a melody of iron gears which shall be rusting in the gardens of a king who is yet to have been born within the ruins of a city dying.

4. The Last Voyager

By the time we shall have been arriving, the earth will have had been swallowed by the sun that was once having promised to be keeping our shadows long against the cold, dark glass.

5. The Weaver’s Loom

She shall be having woven the threads of a dream which had been having bled into the fabric of a reality that will have had been torn before the first needle was ever even cast.

6. The Forest’s Plea

The trees will have been having whispered to the wind which had been having carried the scent of a fire that shall be having consumed the very air we are currently having failed to breathe.

7. The Scribe’s Pen

The ink had been having flowed like a river of obsidian which shall have been staining the hands of the children who will be having read the words that are yet to be having written.

8. The Stone’s Memory

The mountain shall have had been a pebble in the palm of a giant who had been having walked across the seas that will be having frozen before the dawn is ever having broken.

9. The Mirror’s Lie

Your reflection will have been having aged a thousand years before you shall have been even looking into the glass that had been having shattered when the light was first having started to fail.

10. The Star’s End

The light shall be having travelled through the void which had been having held the echoes of a song that will have had been finished long before the singer was ever having been known.