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Best Coal Miner Poems


Miners Tale With Audio
...day in the life of a coal miner 

in the darkness you hear them
their boots clumping along the cobbled stones
not dawn yet ...yet still they are on their way to work
young lads of 15 plus.

th......

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Categories: coal miner, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Under the Cover
...Under The Cover.
.
You can never ever
Tell a book by it’s cover
As I was later to discover
The Lady in the Nursing home
The old man across the way
All have a story to tell
Hidden away
.
Som......

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coal miner, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October Sky
...The teacher dies having made her small contribution
to the colonization of other planets by motivating
a boy who would otherwise be a coal miner to become
a rocket engineer.
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Categories: coal miner, care, community, father, god,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



One Pair of Hands
...ONE PAIR OF HANDS
"Make it your ambition...to work with your hands".  1 Thessalonians 4:11

My dad was a coal miner,
Worked with his hands all day.
As evening came, he took time,
To fold those ......

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Categories: coal miner, christian, faith, heaven, religious,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Gramps Is Not An Acronym
...My gramps was a long-staunch Baptist of the sort S.B.C., 
Until his local congregation got beholden to the R.N.C. 

Gramps was a hoot – on a Friday he joined the K.K.K., 
Saturday, he quit becaus......

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Categories: coal miner, character, grandfather, humor,
Form: Couplet
The Coal Miner
...Coal mines in my daddy's day, 
Were dug with strong hands and back
They got larger and deeper, 
As the lungs of the miners turned black

Cave-ins, fires and explosions,
Were my father’s daily f......

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© Tom Zart  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: coal miner, love, dad, dad, me,
Form: Rhyme



China Syndrome
...There goes the water where we find all the fish
There goes the earth where we grow all the food
There goes an ideological wish
Another tenet of Darwin, misconstrued

China Syndrome
Melting and ......

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Categories: coal miner, abuse, america, environment, farewell,
Form: Elegy
Song For the Coal Miner
...The coal miner descends
into the mine much like
his father and his father’s father
it’s his way of life.

Into the mine much like
the others, he goes into darkness
it’s his way of life
as the......

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Categories: coal miner, family, father, work,
Form: Free verse
Grandpa
...In the hills of West Virginia, at a log house he called home,
Is where grandpa spent so many years, though other places he did roam.
He was a country man at heart, and seemed a man before his time.......

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Categories: coal miner, childhood, death, family, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
A Coal Miner
...A man with few fears.
A man willing to give for what he can receive.
Hard at work to earn his pay.
Trying to make a decent living for his family and he.
A heavy leather belt strapped firmly aroun......

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Categories: coal miner, devotion, on work and
Form:
White Noise
...Blat , Blat
Sporadic gunfire firing back
Our way of life is under attack
And what I mean by that 
Is protect the Oil Refineries 
Protect Democracy freedom of speech 
Protect the Banks & Institu......

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Categories: coal miner, blessing,
Form: Free verse
A Coal Miner
...A man with few fears.
A man willing to give for what he can receive.
Hard at work to earn his pay.
Trying to make a decent living for his family and he.
A heavy leather belt strapped firmly aroun......

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Categories: coal miner, family, inspirational, on work
Form:
Mines of Death
...the mines  of death the miners knew,
black in the face the workers too,
too many years of underground,
sweat for the masters' dollar go round,
and death got paid his due,
good ol coal mine......

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Categories: coal miner, adventure, death, death,
Form: Rhyme
Disaffection
...
Your vibrant smile
haunts me every now and then
Sashaying strut like a peacock
is how I remember you
How come I recall only good things about you?
In my present condition,
I'm morbidly dis......

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Categories: coal miner, angst, heartbroken, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Coal Miners
...From sun up to sun down, they worked all day,
but down in that hole they always slaved,
light from a lantern, is all they had,
and quitting time really made them glad.
Coal dust covered them from......

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Categories: coal miner, father, health, life, people,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things