The lone Guard
45Gold panning
Goldmining
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The Lone Guard
All is tranquil bar the wind
that annoys and torments leaves in the tree tops
Gusting wind imprisons tumbleweed
in barbed wire fences
Tin flaps against the shell of a miner's shack
A skeletal curtain beats out a tune
against discarded bottles on a ledge
where red dust blankets years of tears and pain
A lightning charge of electricity
illuminates the solitary cross on a hilltop
bearing the carved words - barely visible
Benjamim Turner 1870 -1883
Guarding all that remains
of sleeping memories in other unmarked graves
Tells naught of mental torture suffered by boys
digging the earth like men, beside fathers and brothers alike
Nor of wives and daughters tending chores
aware of dangerous rock falls and cave-ins
facing their men tunneling like rabbits for gold
Their spirit mystifying all that follows
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thanks very much for that. They were old memories I had when we were living in the goldfields. I just felt sorry for the way they had to burrow like rabbits day after day for little rewards.
Eileen you are a poetess by nature.My,my my what great poem after the 'Golden Earth' one too.I could become your fan each time you publish your poems here.
Gee thanks for that. The people in the mining times really did it hard I think. What with the heat and flies and digging underground. They didnt have machines like our miners.
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MrMarmalade says:
9 months ago
Gee, If you keep this up I will never have the nerve to try it.
You are getting better abd better.
Great on second thoughts you had better keekon going