""PIT PONIES""

DEEP BELOW WHERE OATS DON'T GROW

YET MUST BE KEPT AT READY,

DOWN THE BLACK AND DUSTY ROADS

THOSE OATS KEPT HORSES STEADY.


FOR FIFTY WEEKS, THEY KEPT THEM KEEN

THEY WORKED EM HARD AND KEPT EM LEAN,

TOGETHER THEY TOILED AS MINING TEAMS

THEY HELD THE GAFF, WITH FEW MACHINES.


THE WORKING MINES , EACH HAD THEIR STALLS

OF WORKPLACE PONIES, WHICH WERE NOT TALL

THOUGH SHORTER THAN THE AVERAGE MARE

THE SIZE DID NOT REDUCE THEIR SHARE.


OF WORK, EACH "EQUINE" PULLED HIS WEIGHT

THOUGH A LIFE OF MINING, WAS HIS FATE.

HAULING TON BY TON, THROUGH SWEAT AND PAIN

HORSE AND MINER , TOGETHER MADE TRAINS


FROM DEEP WITHIN THE SHAFTS BELOW

WHERE NO SUN SHINES, WHERE NO SNOW BLOW.

TO WORK AS "ONE", A TEAM OF FIGHTERS

AGAINST THE ODDS, MADE LIFE MUCH BRIGHTER.




TILL AT LAST TO SURFACE AND "LIGHTS SENSATION"!

THE PONIES, THE MEN AND "THE MINERS VACATION"!

BRING A SHORT REPRIEVE, UNTO OPEN SKIES

YES, THE FIRST FEW DAYS WOULD "HURT THEIR EYES",


TWO WEEKS OF FREEDOM , ON THE SURFACE , NO WORK!

FULL FOURTEEN DAYS FROM THE MUD AND THE MURK,

AND SO QUICKLY PASSED, AS ANOTHER YEAR ENDS

THE PONIES HEAD BACK TO THEIR "UNDER-GROUND PENS"!


THEY'LL PULL THEIR WEIGHT!

THEIR OATS,, THEY'LL EARN!

WE NOW PAY HOMAGE ....TO THE "PONIES" IN TURN.......



JOEYFACE CREATIONS...01/12/2010