Best Miner Poems

Died 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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'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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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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The 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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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 fear.
But what choice has a man 
When the wolf of hunger is near.

With three...

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A 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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Now 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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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 around his waist.
The light on his hat to lead the...

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Now 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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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 they carve into mountains.

With the others he goes into darkness
far below a world of light
and...

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Baker 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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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 around his waist.
The light on his hat to lead the...

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Minds mine information
    None expects to find gold

  Injustice deserves not dedication
    When for a salary passion is sold...

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The 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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The 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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