C Richard Miles Poems

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91.
There Must Be An App For It!

Our feeble-frame biology
Won't let mankind relax:
We're drowning in technology;
We're overrun by apps.
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92.
Downfall Of Decency

And here we sit in our dissipated miasma
As phantasms of perceived apathy crawl,
Slug-like, over the edifices of the city.
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93.
Chaotic Skies

We walk the city streets beneath chaotic skies
And mindlessly we stride as if quite unaware
Of the impending menace, stark before our eyes,
Frenetic in its nature, cold as ice-sharp air,
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94.
Remembrance Day 2009

Though they may stay forever young,
Those killed by bullet, bomb or gun
In deserts of Afghanistan,
Their mourners age like any man.
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95.
How You Blow Hot And Cold

You gave me vibrant life when first we met
Your sparkling presence cutting through my night
And bringing warmth where fear lay, patterned white
As trackless snowy moor in winter, yet
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96.
February Weather

February sulks its shadow
Over moorland, marsh and meadow.
Dreary drizzle unabating,
Then there's weather worse awaiting:
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97.
High Temperature

When fever fades and dissipates
Itself into an echo of a headache
That gently drifts, a fickle fog,
Across the sleep-befuddled brain,
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98.
Barafundle Bay

That scorching summer day, we trekked all
The way across the cliffs from Stackpole,

The sky as turquoise as the distant ocean
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99.
Tattered Shreds: A Requiem For A Lost Youth

Tattered shreds, now fluttering faded
Desiccated seedheads rattle out,
Like the last peppercorn in the mill,
Dust-dry echoes of memorial.
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100.
Aygill Force

Beyond the rocky staircase, where tripping streamlets drop
And slipping, slithering landslides fall from heathery hillsides steep,
Under a leafy shelter, where rough limestone rocks outcrop
Down in the hidden hollow, cut by wrathful waters deep,
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