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Colliers Poems - Poems about Colliers


you'll be a man, tomorrow
...You’ll be a man tomorrow, child, yes, If you respect animals and pristine nature, If you don’t kill elephants for ivory, If you don’t kill the whales for soap, You’ll be a man if you can stop t......

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Categories: colliers, cheer up, education, future,
Form: Quatrain
To Be Followed 2
...On the hives in color, On the summer clothes, On the tables and fruit, I’m looking for it, In the knotted buns, On the wings of birds, On the wings of hurricanes, I’m looking for it, On t......

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Categories: colliers, appreciation, encouraging, happiness,
Form: Free verse



Hatcher Hollow Becomes Me
...Hatcher Hollow is old white colonizer's country my cousin sold me this precious land property My ancestors lived im Mc Ewen Tn for centuries my ancestors lived and died in Humphrey county my pe......

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Categories: colliers, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Once Upon a Countryside
...Once were badgers in leafy dale, once were rabbits and foxes too, once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew. Once were songbirds in privet hedges, once were blu......

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Categories: colliers, anger, angst, emotions, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Canary Ivanka
...Buy your coal mine canary From Ivanka's Canary Shop You'll know you bought a bargain When it does The Canary Flop Tomahawk missile launches Ensure a mining boom So canary songs can linger Li......

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Categories: colliers, bird, career, death, natural
Form: Verse



The Colliers Son
...Mother and three siblings to keep, bread winner, man of the house, at pit head, down into the deep, to extract coal like a sucking louse, twelve hour shifts, morning to night, water to drink,......

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Categories: colliers, absence, boy, career, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now and Then and Now Again
...1 Though still within our infancy, we strive to thrive, but woefully we flash and flaunt our 'primacy', display our trophies pridefully. Our terra firma ecstasy destroys survival's harmony......

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Categories: colliers, corruption, culture, environment, money,
Form: Monorhyme
The Dump
...A road draws through Straggly lines of black ragged trees In a landscape under bleak eastern light Past The Village Chippy Colliers Row and the Working Men’s Club Towards a hill up north Wher......

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Categories: colliers, urban
Form: I do not know?

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