Short Inlet Poems

ponce inlet lighthouse
captivating beauty seen 
many miles away...

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Like water…
fear seeks its own level
Rich or poor
it wades through our consciousness
Driving us inward
toward sirens of darkness
Shrilling the moment
—with lyres of doubt 

(Hereford Inlet: December, 2021)...

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Raising thoughts and emotion,
the mainsail was set

Heading into the wind
of tomorrow unmet

All stays are in place,
with tiller held fast

Reaching for glory
—the doldrums have passed

(Hereford Inlet: November, 2020)...

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Tongue flicks at mouths hinge
looking for an inlet rest
breath hold
in tremored chest
His eyes flit
as chocolate twirled dress
comes to autumn leaves fall rest
From your knees discover
each curves turn over
You are mine to use
she rasps from bedraggled hair tumble...

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As we breathed, we stood apart, 

Rocks fall, our world crumbling...
I feel trapped like a conjuring charm... 

Loving you is an existence...
Losing you is a solicitous ardent. 

A prick in my breath is our amulet,
Inlet borders our souls, my starlet... 

As we died, we stood in cahoots....

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Sue promised to show him her beaver 
Her beaver - he didn’t believe her! 
When Sue got him home
She started to moan …
Her beaver had died from a fever


Sue’s beaver was covered in sweat
It was too late to call out the vet
She got out a spade
The beaver was laid
To rest at a pretty inlet

09~11~16...

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If you play enough of the game of Monopoly,
then you will know your way around Atlantic City.
You will see the avenues of Mediterranean and Baltic.
There are also Illinois, Tennessee, and Pacific.
From the inlet to Chelsea, it is all terrific.
However, there is one thing I would like to know:
Where do you collect $200 for passing “GO”?
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‘Go dominate all,
Animals of humanity
And all found within…’
 Are words of divinity!

Praying inside me, 
Contented being in thee,
As pill of life tends to be,
Swallowed thrice per day,
And twinkles with soul met, 
For attractive aroma of the inlet! 

Cranking chapter lees,
Mental intellect bees,
Pill magnificent murmur!  
Life set when topsy-turvy.

© Lucas Mkude
02/07/2013...

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The colours of Australia
Bright yellow and green
The haunting arid outback
And scenic pastoral scene
Soft white virgin sand
Coral reefs and inlet bays
Silvery moonlit nights
And red hot summer days
Lavender and pink wild flowers
Brown earth and dusty plain
Aqua oceans, sparkling waters
Stark red ochre terrain
Orange crimson sunsets
Rainbows and skies of blue
our emerald rainforests
Golden sunlight shining through
The colours of Australia
Its the gift we give to you....

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A heart that weeps silenced to what was left
Destroyed the hope only of love it kept
To give, To take in less more have been spent 
Becoming was the cold in hell it bent
Why lone catered a simple minds repent 
I love! I hate! phantom alone regret
Figured configured intertwined inlet
To yearn no need but use to need mindset
To be alone inside I must ingest 
No love to keep my own had been to what neglect
Accept what is my own deserved expect
In that what Love mirrored my own reflect...

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The cool blue ice moves down the inlet
Clear and pristine like blue diamond glass
Seals playfully jump and dive
Making ripples of rings on the silent surface
Radiating them out until they disappear
Crisp and cold in this land of ice
Clear and serene on a calm day
Land that is frozen in time
Disturbed only by the wind and crashing waves
Or the animals that live in this arctic domain
Land of the midnight sun
With no morning or no dawn
Undisturbed by man
Only nature showing it's hand...

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