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Array ( [sid] => 149505 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Black Gold (Coal) [time] => 2009-04-29 10:50:20 [hometext] => This for miners across the World, especially those from the Rhondda Valley [bodytext] => Tall megaliths, stand silent and still
Where pit wheels, once turned
Spinning, with whispering timbre
Taking men to coal, our fires burned

Men with strength, in body and soul
In cramped iron cages, lamps in hand
Waiting to enter, mother earth's heart
Courageous miners, would stand

Brakes released, a cage descends
As a dropping stone, into a well
Plummeting, to the depths of Wales
Taking brave miners, into darkened hell

Rhondda miners, in days now past
Forging new tunnels, they furrowed
Men with strength of a lion
Blackened faced, they burrowed

Brave men, whose lives they gave
While digging for Black Gold
In a manifold of disasters
Stories of courage, today still told

Black pyramids, monuments tall
Scarred mountains, no longer hold
A legacy, of death and destruction
Rhondda's reward, from Black Gold
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Black Gold (Coal)

Contributed by thewizard on Wednesday, 29th April 2009 @ 10:50:20 AM in AEST
Topic: dedicatedpoems

Tall megaliths, stand silent and still
Where pit wheels, once turned
Spinning, with whispering timbre
Taking men to coal, our fires burned

Men with strength, in body and soul
In cramped iron cages, lamps in hand
Waiting to enter, mother earth's heart
Courageous miners, would stand

Brakes released, a cage descends
As a dropping stone, into a well
Plummeting, to the depths of Wales
Taking brave miners, into darkened hell

Rhondda miners, in days now past
Forging new tunnels, they furrowed
Men with strength of a lion
Blackened faced, they burrowed

Brave men, whose lives they gave
While digging for Black Gold
In a manifold of disasters
Stories of courage, today still told

Black pyramids, monuments tall
Scarred mountains, no longer hold
A legacy, of death and destruction
Rhondda's reward, from Black Gold

Copyright © thewizard ... [ 2009-04-29 10:50:20]
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Re: Black Gold (Coal) (User Rating: 1 )
by Puppy_dog_eyes on Wednesday, 29th April 2009 @ 04:12:57 PM AEST
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This is a vivid reminder of how coal really was king at one time.
Not a subject that too many people would tackle but you have certainly done it justice with your treatment of the subject.
I really did want to read to that "bitter" end.

Steve

Re: Black Gold (Coal) (User Rating: 1 )
by windowguy on Sunday, 17th May 2009 @ 08:04:01 AM AEST
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Excellent piece that tells it as it was.

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