Best Mining Poems

Black
Wasteland
Blitzkrieg hills
Broken promises
Death!

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Miles and miles above our heads,
millions of them, I believe it's said,
way up in the skies, past the moon and stars,
somewhere near Jupiter and nearby Mars,
space rocks, called asteroids,
are hot topics these days.
We'll be "mining the skies," for silver and gold,
and other precious metals, like...

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Rare earth materials in cars and phones
help us hear and travel and stay in touch.
Much of human capital is in loans,
funding needs like a societal crutch.

Every device turns over in a year
to support immediate stock deadlines.
Endless mining is what we have to fear.
Endless growth is...

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KENTUCKY   COAL   MINING    1930

Behind me men deepening  my gashes 
And a danger as always from gas flashes
Ahead of  me  more seams wait for my  cuts
More years spent sick to the guts

Rock rock everywhere and...

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The world moves on-
and so do you,
on gears we grind
like a mining crew....

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Shattered are the dreams of the wanting, as they live in their broken homes 
Bodies wracked with pain, spirits crushed as they live out those wasted lives

Accumulations of sorrow, all these and more, in the tailing pond of society 
as we mine the misery of...

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as I see some children
forced to do hard works
in coltan and other illegal 
mines in DRCongo.
terrorise by some group of rebels
daily.
some United nations officials 
support those dark deals 
mostly.
many people stay  
quietly. 
Painful to see polluted waters 
Fish killed by different acids. 
Fishers screamed 
terrible.
Oh!...

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Compassionate hearts called to action,
mining for precious jewels.
Bright eyes open today. 
The fog of apathy falls from faces...
to see the fearful...
to see the hungry.
Open hearts overflow today,
mining for precious jewels.
Compassionate souls
through cities and countries
step across concrete and pastures,
searching, hoping, healing...
mining for precious jewels.
The cries of...

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Twenty-two miles to the Roslyn mine.
Two blocks beyond, ten headstones you'll find.
All dated the same the registry claims,
though the wind, the ice and acidified rain 
have disfigured and stolen the names of those souls.
My tears they might wash and reveal some of those
but are wasted....

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Dams, mining, extraction and fracking!                     
Logging, trawling, oops this urban expansion!

Plastic, toxic sludge and fertilisers,
Industrial revolution, Mass production!
Rising pollution and depleting fossil fuel.
Expanding population, you...

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High home summer hill

Straining, sucking, sitting

Staring, stopped and stick-

A pit-prop tight and gripped.

The trees across the valley

Much higher than he can go now.

I pant to reassure him

In time with his withered eyes.

His tongue, tombed gritty green

He’s faithful, though he’s fading

Bones in death-grey jumper

Where will he...

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Stairrafer)................ beyond the rules and regulations and restrictions, we have to recognize the mean spirited ways of men, those who wish to involve themselves in every aspect of human existence.
Deffrion).....turn your face to me when you speak, people often think this is an act of...

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On a squatter’s small selection
Not far east of Northam town
Waits a wife and her two children
For her husband to come down

For he’s gone off chasing nuggets
In a far off northern field
And he’s gone to seek his fortune
Gone to reap a golden yield

But the fare up...

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Go through chores as, like a machine
the sunrise, sundown, the rains, and snow
the countryside pass by a train window
but can't drink the green valley to the lees
along the mountain slope the mist rises
swept clean by a light stream from among clouds
sea waves thrash the shore...

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The coal miner descends
into the mine much like
his father and his father’s father
it’s his way of life.

Into the mine much like
the others, he goes into darkness
it’s his way of life
as they carve into mountains.

With the others he goes into darkness
far below a world of light
and...

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