Best Coal Miner Poems
Below are the all-time best Coal Miner poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of coal miner poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Coal MinerCoal 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,...
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Categories:
coal miner, love, dad, dad, me,
Form:
Rhyme
A Coal MinerA 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...
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coal miner, devotion, on work and
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I do not know?
A Coal MinerA 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, family, inspirational, on work
Form:
I do not know?
Song For the Coal MinerThe 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, family, father, work,
Form:
Free verse
Miners Tale With Audioday 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, life,
Form:
Verse
Under the CoverUnder 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, appreciation, caregiving, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
October SkyThe 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, care, community, father, god,
Form:
Verse
One Pair of HandsONE 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, christian, faith, heaven, religious,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Gramps Is Not An AcronymMy 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, character, grandfather, humor,
Form:
Couplet
GrandpaIn 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, childhood, death, family, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
China SyndromeThere 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, abuse, america, environment, farewell,
Form:
Elegy
White NoiseBlat , 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...
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Categories:
coal miner, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Mines of Deaththe 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...
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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...
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Categories:
coal miner, angst, heartbroken, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
Un FarabuttoGrandpa Francesco Proia,
from Caserta, Italia,
a clever stowaway
in the bowels of the ship
bringing him to Ellis Island,
Feb. 4, 1905.
Gruff ways,
often snarling a guttural “Huh,”
a lack...
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Categories:
coal miner, family, grandfather, hero, immigration,
Form:
Free verse