Pithead Poems - Poems about Pithead

...Written: September 1st, 2023 Would You Love Me If I Wasn't A Poet? Sponsored by: Silent One ______________________________________________________________ If my ......Read the rest...

...Silent stands The winding gear The pithead sealed Five and twenty year Miners no longer toil With honest dignity Coal now comes On boats across the sea Silent stands The eerie monumen......Read the rest...

...I remember many years ago when the distant siren told us all the shift had ended. Yet! Six pints to be drunk before stumbling through the back door, his sweat still clinging to his face sealed ......Read the rest...

...Me father was a collier, worked Harton off the coast Though he rattled from the coal dust he was whiter than a ghost But the one thing that reviled him in his God-forsaken post Was the torment o......Read the rest...

...It is the solemn evening song that drifts, into the valley cup, from the saucer of the moon, and spreads in wings of darkness, nightshade breath; arising as molecules of black oil, up from the pit......Read the rest...