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Roughneck Poems - Poems about Roughneck

Premium Member Trailer Park
...After work at Google, I sat with the guys I said we were elite, enlightened and wise We had to censor those in this benighted nation Who spread disruptive disinformation. A Venture Cap named Ha......

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Categories: roughneck, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Bullingdon Boys
...Hippy, could I say? Or rogue, rascal or roughneck? Who, his and lives of others, does knowingly wreck; These are 'born with a silver spoon in the mouth', sure, In their mind and heart, yet, are t......

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Categories: roughneck, life,
Form: Rhyme



All Hands On Deck
...Feedback - flight or fight – it’s due to enzymes. God put it in our brain, safeguard for crimes; fear is normal, a good thing many times. Facts fog up when fear uses its strong-arm. What is me......

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Categories: roughneck, 11th grade, fear,
Form: Sonnet
Three Sands
...Life in Three Sands is very simple. There are those here for the oil And those that stay for the booze, games, and women. But things have begun to change. A new layer of sand is blowing in ......

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Categories: roughneck, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Wasn'T Lying
...I remember the first day I tell you that i love you, When i tell you that i will Always be on your side, Actually i wasn't lying to you I remember the second the day I tell you that you look ......

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Categories: roughneck, angel, black love, blessing,
Form: Free verse



The American Way
...The American Way In every neighborhood There are problems that arise. Some never get resolved No one that fact denies. However: the other day A big story was in our paper. Of a group of u......

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Categories: roughneck, america, poetry, strength, together,
Form: Rhyme
Old Man With a Hard Hat
...I saw an old man with a hard hat on Walkin' down the road as the sky turned dawn. I said, "Howdy Bub, where you headed to?" He said, "Don't much matter - just west will do. I been roughneckin' se......

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Categories: roughneck,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member Scratch
...My daddy was a roughneck and he worked the oil patch. He ate his eggs and biscuits that my mommy made from scratch. Pies and cakes and everything from scratch was always made. That was the best, t......

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Categories: roughneck, childhood, humor, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Roughneck
...You marketing types love us. Blue all over, fear of nothing a man can throw, Quick to bow down when the boss come by... not the one paying me...., but the one who rules my roost. Day breaks ......

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Categories: roughneck, fun, work,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas Military Version
...‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the bay Not a soldier was stirring in the hall or the way. The clothes were all hung in the lockers with care In hopes that the I. G. soon would b......

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Categories: roughneck, christmas, military,
Form: Rhyme
If I Must Die
...If I must die, let it be before the break of dawn When peace and stillness sway in people, homes, and places When earsplitting music in alcohol selling places, cease When even the foul and abusive......

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Categories: roughneck, death, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Keep It Turnin' To the Right
...Oklahoma cowboy, tough coal miner’s son Born in Henryetta, south of Tulsa some Raised by daddy’s momma, taught him wrong from right Daddy taught him ropin’, taught him how to fight Herding mad......

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Categories: roughneck, day, earth, funny, life,
Form: Rhyme
Brother/Bother
...Roughneck obnoxious when inebriated brother, precious brother blessed by God if only... ever the first born.......

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Categories: roughneck, brother
Form: Acrostic
A Special Breed of Men
...His old hands were calloused from all the many years of work and toil. His life seemed to be his work and the never ending search for oil. Seven days a week with no let up in sight, He manne......

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Categories: roughneck, adventure, friendship, life, on
Form: Verse
Roughneckin
...I worked on drilling rigs for the better part of thirty years. I sweated buckets of sweat while my wife cried barrels of tears. The work was seldom easy and to say it was safe would be a lie. ......

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Categories: roughneck, adventure, on work and
Form: Narrative

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