Short Miner Poems

Minds mine information
    None expects to find gold

  Injustice deserves not dedication
    When for a salary passion is sold...

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I took a banana home and peeled him for dinner
When I saw his manhood I knew I was a winner
I call him my miner
my large cruise liner

© 2000...

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Died Being A Miner

Ate great chowder in crowded diner;
Then we had sailed on a lovely liner;
Life would end;
To heaven send;
He did die digging coal being a miner.

Jim Horn...

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He quit the sea as a Pirate,
To become a Hard Rock Miner,
No more could he take
The Wind and the Water,
Thought he the Dirt and Dust
Could make his Life the better.

Hard Work it was
And the blisters grew,
The sweat and heat was
Most oppressive.

And the Gold trickled in,
And the Gold was worth it....

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the mines  of death the miners knew,
black in the face the workers too,
too many years of underground,
sweat for the masters' dollar go round,
and death got paid his due,
good ol coal miner, you!
in blackness never found,
coal covered in the mound,
awaiting till,
resurrection,
dill ...

re: Black Diamond Night   Poet ~ Destroyer...

Don...

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He searched the mines for a gem. 
Much ado about nothing but came something.
In the mine, he found this one pearl,second to none,what he came for. 
Is this living in a fool's paradise?
"No ours is a forgone conclusion"  he said to her as he stared. 
She leaned back in a miner's hand, waiting to be cut,soon to be polished. At last she smiled at his intuitions....

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Oh God, you are both mine and miner- strip

     this soul embedded in your work of clay,

          and let your tools of grace and fellowship

preserve the gem of Love from life's decay.


Sandra M. Haight


~3rd Place~
Contest: Arbitrium Divisa
Sponsor: Gregory R. Barden
Judged: 06/13/2019

Four lines from my Sonnet, "The Gem," 
posted November 13, 2014
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A wrestling River
has run its cause
A quick recce
and all is sorted
Be not a Miner or mariner
for promises they cannot meet

The spite of the bitter leaves
up to the knee 
With a scheming
and storm in a teacup
I was thinking too fast
With a sinking of peculiarities underscored
Jacob has drawn my blood
but with a wink and a guile
perhaps we can grin
après moi le deluge 
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EMERSON PHRASIS
Tokens of love,for the most
part,cold and lifeless.They
represent not our life.The
only true gift,a portion of
ourself.So just for we,let
the farmer give corn,a miner
a gem,the sailor coral from
the sea.Let the painter unroll a
picture fair,the poet his heart to share
From Emerson Essays

Listen to me read this phrasis on youtube under the pen name ichthyschiro...

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Foolish little girl
Makes a naughty mistake
Treats those hard nosed
With a blizzard

Take a peek
That shameless smirk
Turns upside down
Twigging what she’s lost it

No one identifies
Ludicrous
 The miner
On a pile of black gold?

Don’t outshine
The dim light in the dark pool
There not worth
To polish that shoe

Now shake off: 
That gold digger act
Can’t last so long
Don’t wait for life to react...

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The old miner toils,
Searching mother earths spoils,
Tunnel dark and dingy,
Old wheel barrow wingy,
He has been there for all time,
Why? For no reason, no rhyme,
Oblivious to life up above,
Never feeling human touch nor love,
His one true love the gold he moves,
A demanding mistress she proves,
She is his one true calling,
Captivating, mysterious, enthrawling,
Dreaming of eureka cries,
Until the day he dies....

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Premiered at Midland Motor Speedway, Odessa, TX – 6/26/1998
	               
ACT 1

Das Lied für Alma
Still Life Instrumental
First Nights
Pain Hurts
Violet
Dancing with the Blues
The Reckoning
No One’s Going Home 

ACT 2

Brickyard Informal
Beneath the Wheel
Eyes of a Miner
Here She Was
Halfway to My Knees
The Last Time We Made Love

ACT 3

I Quit
Never Be Too Far Away 
Yesterday’s Coffee
Stale Green Light...

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