The document discusses two poems that deal with death and loss in a Welsh mining community. The first poem "He Loved Light, Freedom and Animals" by Mike Jenkins is about a father's loss of his son in the Aberfan mining disaster of 1966. The second poem by Duncan Bush is about a miner dying of pneumoconiosis, a lung disease contracted from coal dust. Both poems reflect on the human cost of the mining industry in Wales and the tragedy of lives cut short.