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Nashville on my radio

...It’s Thursday evening, almost nine
foot-tap, fiddle, and banjo time
with juke-box tales of love’s romance
the county jail, a second chance
for bourbon belles or backroad trucks
mail-box motels, ...

Categories: steel mill, music,
Form: Rhyme

Slow Boat To China

...I was born in a landlocked getaway town
Where all the colors were black, gray, or brown.
Jobs at the steel mill were ratcheting down.
It was not in my future to stay.

So, I took a long walk off...

Categories: steel mill, adventure, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Black Country Communion

...Honesty is our soul
Our work is coking coal
Midst coarse iron foundries
And steel mill boundaries
We live, love, and labor
Sing, dance, and play tabor...!

Though coal dust pollution,
Finds l...

Categories: steel mill, life, people,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Depression Baby

...An eight-year-old in ’29, one of seven kids,
Living in a steel mill town when it hit the skids.
They watched the whole thing spiral down, not much else to do.
She never got to finish school. My ma...

Categories: steel mill, addiction, allegory, anger, angst,
Form: Lyric

Irons

...steel mill smoke stack
anvil and hammer
my will for sure
sprinkle the cotton
hot steam on my face
press down hard
don't beak the board
chore of the sixties...

Categories: steel mill, for teens,
Form: Free verse

Territory Trample

...Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morn...

Categories: steel mill, 11th grade, change, conflict,
Form: Bio

Unsilenced Silence

...Fan spinning with an uneven blade
Frogs singing midnight serenades
Traffic stopping horns blowing
Drunks stagger
A man yells
Watch where your going
Horns playing jazz upbeat and in time
Smoker...

Categories: steel mill, silence, society,
Form: Couplet

After Sandy

...I never studied the downed limbs before Sandy. 
I was savoring the muscle burn from herringboning my way up a hill or fretting over a ping in my back, the price of macho competitions in the steel mi...

Categories: steel mill, mountains,
Form: Free verse

One More For the Road 3 the Bad Times

...Pardon

From dawn's early light, a gradual state takes flight
Idiosyncrasies dance in my head
Break in prayer, then back again
Could it be the past or is it the present?
It's this part of me I'...

Categories: steel mill, lifelife,
Form: I do not know?

Fractured

...My grandfather on my father’s side, was a pecker-toothed sidle who raped his 
daughter when she was just ten. He threw down vodka from an eternal well and took my father out to buy prostitutes when h...

Categories: steel mill, childhoodfather, father, grandfather, mother,
Form: Narrative

Defasco

...Hamilton, Ontario,
Is a steel making town.
You can hardly tell it, 
When the sun goes down.

The slagpiles glow as the big furnace throws,
Another batch of ore.
Big ingots sit on the railway c...

Categories: steel mill, on work and workingfather,
Form: Verse

Harpsichord On a Stormy Night

...A wild pagan, the wind, a spectral masseuse,
  Blunt cudgel and claw dipped in liquid frost,
To corrupt and ravage the pit head columns,
  As black trees threshed and leaves were tossed;
Slapped ...

Categories: steel mill, death, music, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme

Blueberry Hill

...I can still remember
back when I was a kid
I had a friend called Millie
and we were made for each other
just like peanut butter and jelly
on a piece of crusty bread

on a Sunday afternoon
I'd...

Categories: steel mill, childhood, friendship, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse