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Best Poems From
C RICHARD MILES
(1961)
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Leaf-thief Haiku
Windy Autumn Days
Send spiteful sneak-thief breezes
To steal leaves from trees.
C Richard Miles
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Leap-frog Haiku
Could the fat green frog
Leap over all the wet logs
In the muddy bog?
C Richard Miles
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Lend me
Lend me your ears so I can whisper soft
And tell you what I really mean to say.
Lend me your eyes so I can look aloft
And watch for clouds that threaten us with grey.
Lend me your hand so we can, side by side,
With confidence, stride on lifes winding road.
Lend me your strength, whose shoulders broad and wide
Can help us both to carry sorrows load.
Lend me your lips so I can feel your kiss
Which softly reassures me of your love.
Lend me your mind so I know what it is
You think of me and what is the next move.
Lend me your heart? No it would be too much;
Just lets be friends but still lend me your touch.
C Richard Miles
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Lets Be Green
Lets be green, the poster said.
My eyes just popped out of my head
Imagining weird aliens,
Sat upon the garden fence,
Who ask us to
Assume their hue
And come to their defence.
Lets be green; I paused a bit.
That cant be right; it just wont fit.
Why should my thoughts be left all fallow,
Naοve, untutored, innocent, callow?
Im much too wise
For that disguise.
It seems too dim and shallow.
Lets be green, it still went on.
I wondered which attire to don:
Jade-green jumpers, sea-green shoes,
Grass-green gloves or tree-green trews
Crossed through my mind,
Though I cant find
In my wardrobe aught but blues.
Lets be green. I guessed, at last,
What it meant, as I drove past:
Environmental taking care
With recycling everywhere.
My too-full bin
Is now a sin
And littering I must not dare.
So lets be green and join the throngs
Chanting planet-saving songs
Which sustain the revolution
To eliminate pollution:
Just go for green
And keep it clean
Should be our resolution.
C Richard Miles
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