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Pithead Poems - Poems about Pithead


Premium Member Should I Quit Being a Poet
...Written: September 1st, 2023 Would You Love Me If I Wasn't A Poet? Sponsored by: Silent One ______________________________________________________________ If my ......

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Categories: pithead, analogy, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Silent Stands
...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......

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Categories: pithead, life
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member Your Father's Eyes
...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 ......

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Categories: pithead, life,
Form: Free verse
BLACKIE
...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......

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Categories: pithead, me, prayer, uplifting,
Form: Epic
Pithead Days
...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......

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Categories: pithead, history, people, places, sad,
Form: Verse




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