Colour Scheme.

[John]

Question, is the colour scheme a tad dated???

The reasons these colours were used are twofold, easy to read the text on our aging eyes!!
AND, they represent the darkness we endured underground in the Black background, the Blue for the sky we came up to at the end of a shift, and the Green for the fields around our pits.

[dazbt]

which reminds me, it's not allways black is it?

HOW GREEN IS MY MOUNTAIN NOW

As a child I watched it grow
A smoking murky mountain
Pointed pyramid with insentient grace
Virtual volcano in potential threat
Yet restrained in its fuming menace.
A slate grey and wasted heap.

A monument to work and wealth
The symbol of a revolution
Industrial over burdening of nature.
Racing to defeat millenniums culture
In a declaration of uncaring arrogance
With its venomous smothering.

With no twinge of conscience I played a part
In the building of this towering threat
Stone by slurried stone
Blood and broken bone the mountain rose
In classic Phoenix style, birthed in fire
A living threat, yet a symbol of ongoing life.

And yet now your growth is stopped
No filth in industry to succour you
Your commercial life support switched off
You have been surrendered back to nature
The same nature that you sought to destroy
Now, to nurture you in a gentler green.


COLOURS OF COAL

Black,
Obviously black,
Or is it really blue
Ancient collier’s proud tattoo.
The colour of a scar.
Dark shine of pitch and broken tar,
A dusty grey of burnt out coals
The generations of burnt out souls.
Or as dark as the shadows of Hell.


ANOTHER

Stealth is coal’s truer colour
Silence is its shade
Evil in its glinting depths
Silver sharp its fatal blade.

Coal’s final fury
Vermilion flamed
Stolen from the hearts of men
But not of those, who should be blamed.