Best Pipeline Poems

absolutely nothing stops the pipeline.

 

it penetrates all ways of life

all borders, all villages & towns---

the pipeline kills everything in its path if it dare stand in the way

of its progress---

with black gold funneling back to the

land of the free

who eagerly seeks to waste

every last...

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The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide by fifteen miles deep
(Although flat as a skating rink)
Following the...

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SONG OF THE PIPELINE

Working on the pipeline
Having such a great time
All work and no play
Never know the time of day.

Toiling seven days a week
Never finding time to sleep
Work in mud up to our necks
Have no time to cash our checks.

Sleep in beds that aren’t our...

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Some say love makes the world go round
I say it is oil that makes the world go round

The thing that is in everything
from plastics to fuel is how it does rule

so given this thought here is your opportunity
to have your say in a different way

Where’s...

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