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Roughnecks
Roughnecks Poems - Poems about Roughnecks
We Are Cheering Our Rebel
...We are out in the ocean where the spray is rough Old Medley Meanie decides to get meaner and tough We take Captain Smithe and we throw him overboard. We are a crew of roughnecks with our hatchet a......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
roughnecks,
10th grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Jealous Jumping Jaguars
...Amazing antiquated alluring alligators Bending ballistic beyond belief barbells Crushing curious crimson crucial crocodiles Delighting dark dank daring darling dwarfs Enormously elongated elves e......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
roughnecks,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Abecedarian
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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Mike Liquori
Categories:
roughnecks,
fun, work,
Form:
Free verse
Elections
...Elections yield idiosyncratic bloodthirsty gods, demons, lemons, liars, and fleas full of prayers that most are just tricks in twists and turns of emptiness that only endeavor to veil the ro......
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Allan Kazembe
Categories:
roughnecks,
political, words,
Form:
Free verse
The Whittlers
...The Whittlers The stately county courthouse was their usual meeting place, a columned Greek Revival, and a lovely public space. They sat upon their benches under lofty pecan trees, wood shaving......
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Roy Jerden
Categories:
roughnecks,
growing up, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
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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Roy Jerden
Categories:
roughnecks,
day, earth, funny, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Paradigm Shift
...Fossil powered gas coal and crude Got miners and some roughnecks screwed With solar and wind Their fate could be pinned On working with fuel that's renewed......
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Duke Beaufort
Categories:
roughnecks,
imagination
Form:
Limerick
On Global Extinction of the Species Part 1
...united on aground our ships on oceans all arranged mankind as navy setting sail, but where to bound(?) listen for the common sound, an orchestra by God arrainged(?) setting sail, leaving port, ......
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Solomon Storm
Categories:
roughnecks,
political
Form:
Prose Poetry
Oil Field Trash
...What is oil field trash is the question most people ask. They’re a different breed of people, who take on dangerous tasks. Very few old roughnecks still have all their fingers or their toes. ......
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Ronald Bingham
Categories:
roughnecks,
adventure, friendship, work, old,
Form:
Narrative