A CENTURY OF MISSING MINERS
Distant and forgotten,
Their remains erased.
A Nation's pioneers, coal- blackened,
beneath the ground.
Husbands, fathers,
sons and lovers.
Their bodies worn
and old before their time,
were never found.
Doreen E Reckitt.
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