Best Miner Poems
Died Being a Miner and MoreDied Being A Miner
Ate great chowder in crowded diner;
Then we had sailed on a lovely liner;
Life would end;
To heaven send;
He did die digging coal being a miner.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
miner, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Limerick
The Ballad of James 'Umbrella Jim' Miner'Umbrella Jim' was the sneakiest scoundrel west of the Missisip'!
Usin' the shell game and sleight of hand, of yer purse he'd gyp.
He'd set up shop 'neath an umbrella whether inside or under an oak.
Usin' three thimbles and a ball he cleaned the jeans of many...
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Categories:
miner, humorous,
Form:
Ballad
The Potato Miner-
Tom sat fer-nent the table within a smoker's chair
A table pot of pra-tes and bacon quivers there
The cook an apron dirty wipes the grease and clears her throat
She cooks her husband dinner the children's and the goat's
He smokes his pipe asunder and prods...
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Categories:
miner, family, night, home, home,
Form:
Rhyme
The Rustic Old MinerThe Rustic Old Miner
He lived in the hills in a little shack
traveled he slowly back and forth.
Heavy load resting upon his weary back
back to his mountain in far North.
Had no family that he dare call his own
solitary soul living life lonely.
Amid wild animals and...
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Categories:
miner, art, body, humanity, journey,
Form:
Narrative
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, fires and explosions,
Were my father’s daily fear.
But what choice has a man
When the wolf of hunger is near.
With three...
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Categories:
miner, love, dad, dad, me,
Form:
Rhyme
A Mountain Void a MinerA Mountain – Void.
A Miner,
Observes this beauty, a Granite Monolith, looming ahead.
An image to light the eyes, brighten the soul – are fed
the belief that within the systolic, lies pure gold
at it’s heart – to be mined – but it is oh so cold,
hard and...
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Categories:
miner, angst, inspirational, loss, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Gitano the MinerNow one of Guy's children croaked.
A mucous filled his little lung,
that griped his chest until he choked,
from phlegm he could not expunge.
It choked the breath right out of him.
Well, guinea Guy had no dough,
he took him to a holy joe,
a slick white collored mick...
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Categories:
miner, allegory
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
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 for his family and he.
A heavy leather belt strapped firmly around his waist.
The light on his hat to lead the...
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Categories:
miner, devotion, on work and
Form:
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 darkness
it’s his way of life
as they carve into mountains.
With the others he goes into darkness
far below a world of light
and...
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Categories:
miner, family, father, work,
Form:
Free verse
Gitano the MinerNow one of Guy's children croaked.
A mucous filled his little lung,
that griped his chest until he choked,
from phlegm he could not expunge.
It choked the breath right out of him.
Well, guinea Guy had no dough,
he took him to a holy joe,
a slick white collored mick...
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Categories:
miner, allegory
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Baker and MinerBaker And Miner
"You worked a lot with yeast
"not much with rock or stone.
"Will you bake rock to a feast
"to nourish flesh and bone?!"
"Do you have the magic wand
"to turn dross to pure Gold
"Or, the portent arm or hand
...
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Categories:
miner,
Form:
Quatrain
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 for his family and he.
A heavy leather belt strapped firmly around his waist.
The light on his hat to lead the...
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Categories:
miner, family, inspirational, on work
Form:
Goal MinerMinds mine information
None expects to find gold
Injustice deserves not dedication
When for a salary passion is sold...
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Categories:
miner, money, motivation, passion,
Form:
Rhyme
The Coober Pedy MinerThe diagnosis was that he wouldn’t live
That the cancer would get him in the end
He had been an opal miner for 20 years
Living in Coober Pedy away from Europe
And all it meant at the end of World War II
When he fought on the Eastern Front
Where...
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Categories:
miner, death,
Form:
Free verse
The MinerThe Miner
Mining dust in outer space exploited planets full of
Holes and an eerie day, workers on strike.
10% ok, but nothing to spend money on except
in the company store
The workmen´s shuttle has broken down it will take
two years before a new one...
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Categories:
miner, absence,
Form:
Blank verse